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Celebrating Fat Tuesday Swedish Style Posted by Marcus Cederström on Mar 4, 2011
For those of you already in Sweden, you may have noticed a delicious baked good in bakeries and stores everywhere. The semla. Essentially, the semla, or semlor (if you’re really hungry and want more than one) is a wheat bun hollowed out and filled with amazingness. The amazingness consists of an almond paste and plenty…
Pea Soup and Pancakes Posted by Marcus Cederström on Feb 24, 2011
It is Thursday today, and if you were lucky enough to be in Sweden today, you might have noticed that pancakes and pea soup were on nearly every lunch menu throughout the country. It happens every Thursday, and for a foreigner, the combination of pea soup and pancakes is a strange one. It may seem…
Swedish Plural Endings – Definite(ly) Posted by Marcus Cederström on Feb 18, 2011
As a follow up to the worksheet on plural endings, we thought we would give a brief explanation of the definite plural. We already know how to form the indefinite plural after a rousing lesson back in November: Swedish Plural Endings. So now instead of just being able to say, “chairs,” we’ll be able to…
Fun with Plurals – Answer Sheet Posted by Marcus Cederström on Feb 14, 2011
Hopefully everyone had a chance to go over their work sheets on plurals in both the definite and indefinite forms. The answers are as follows: Noun Plural – Obestämd Plural – Bestämd English en affär affärer affärerna a store en ambulansförare ambulansförare ambulansförarna an ambulance driver en brand bränder bränderna a fire en byggnad byggnader…
Fun with Plurals – Work Sheet Posted by Marcus Cederström on Feb 8, 2011
Here is a quick worksheet for all of you trying to get the hang of your Swedish plurals. Just fill in the blanks: Substantiv Plural – Obestämd Plural – Bestämd Engelska affärer affärerna a store en ambulansförare ambulansförarna en brand bränder a fire byggnader byggnaderna en ficka fickor a pocket en himmel himlarna a sky…
Preteritum – the Swedish Past Tense Posted by Marcus Cederström on Jan 24, 2011
We’ve learned all kinds of different tenses here at Transparent, along with different verb forms. Now it’s time to learn how to say learned. It’s time for the past tense. Since we already know how to put a verb into the imperative, creating the past tense, or preteritum, is no problem at all. Especially with…
Team Handball World Championship Posted by Marcus Cederström on Jan 19, 2011
One of Sweden’s most popular sports is in the midst of a World Championship. And it’s in Sweden. And it seems that a majority of the rest of the world could care less. The US included. It’s Team Handball of course! The tournament started on January 13th and will continue until January 30th. This is…