Archive for November, 2010
The Swedish – scandal – King? Posted by jennie on Nov 4, 2010
Today is the day when our King, Carl XVI Gustaf, ends his annual elk hunt with a press conference about his prey, the days in the woods and similar not particularly exciting stuff. This press conference normally doesn’t attract many journalists – understandably. But today, the King was greeted by over 60 reporters from all over Scandinavia. An extraordinary good…
Swedish Plural Endings Posted by Marcus Cederström on Nov 3, 2010
Because we give you what you want (or at least try to every now and again) we’ve decided to write another post on plural endings. Tibor has put together a great post on nouns in general including the different plural endings, so for a more encompassing look at nouns check out Swedish Nouns. When trying…
Top 15 Swedish things Posted by Katja on Nov 2, 2010
Hey there all of you, In this post I will post all of the things you thought were Swedish. Hopefully our Swedish blog team can write posts about some of the different things as well. Then I have extracted 15 of all the things and hopefully they will be the most representative of them all…
Swedish Helping Verbs Posted by Marcus Cederström on Nov 1, 2010
A couple of weeks ago a commenter was asking about the use of “vill,” so we thought we would put together a quick overview of some other helping verbs used in Swedish. Below you will find a quick list of some common helping verbs: Vill = to want to Behöver = to need to Ska…