Archive for November, 2011
Time Adverbs with certain tenses Posted by Tibor on Nov 16, 2011
Yesterday då (then) i morse (this morning) igår (yesterday) i förrgår (the day before yesterday) häromdagen (the other day) förra veckan (last week) förra månaden (last month) i fjol/fjor (last year) för….x år sedan ( x years ago) *Use Swedish verb forms in Simple Past (preteritum aka. imperfekt) I ate breakfast with her yesterday. Jag åt frukost…
Monopoly, but just not the board game! Posted by Katja on Nov 15, 2011
As many, if not all of you know, Sweden has a strict monopoly on its alcohol sales. It is only “Systembolaget”, the name of the organization, that is allowed to sell alcohol over 3,5% in all of Sweden. There are a total of 416 stores and 508 agents who are allowed to sell alcohol…
The Swedish flag Posted by Stephen Maconi on Nov 12, 2011
The Swedish flag looks like this: For those of you who can’t see the image (for whatever reason), it’s a horizontally lying rectangle with a blue background and a yellow cross through it, with its vertical stroke panned to the left. The Swedish flag is said to have been inspired by Dannebrogen, the Danish name…
Ban the big Asian ones – Swedish Anti-Scampi Ad. Posted by Tibor on Nov 11, 2011
Swedish version English version
Popular names in Sweden Posted by jennie on Nov 9, 2011
Names are always an interesting topic and they often reflects a country’s culture and trends quite well. Sweden’s beloved Astrid Lindgren has for example had lots of influence on children’s name in the past – before her books there were hardly any children named Ronja or Rasmus, names that exploded in the 80ies. According to…
Halloween in Sweden Posted by Katja on Nov 8, 2011
This past week there has been big confusion over what day Halloween actually should be celebrated on. So a lot of people just started celebrating on the 30th and continued to just about the day before yesterday i.e. 6th of November. The reason for this most likely being the Swedish holiday “Alla helgons dag” which…
The Swedish R Posted by Stephen Maconi on Nov 7, 2011
One thing you’ll notice while traveling around Sweden (and Swedish-speaking parts of Finland) is its myriad of different dialects. Each of these dialects has its own name, for example stockholmska (Stockholm dialect), norrländska (Norrland dialect), and finlandssvenska (Finland Swedish), to name a few. These dialects vary in many aspects, but one particular sound that distinguishes…