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Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Faroese and Icelandic in a comparative context. Posted by Tibor on Oct 20, 2011
English My name is Martin. My mother is a nurse and dad is a teacher in English. I have a brother whose name is Kim and a sister called Mia. They go to secondary school. We live in a big, old house by the sea. I will graduate this May and I will do some…
Functional use of “den”, “det”, “de” och “dem” Posted by Tibor on Oct 13, 2011
Most of you have been learning Swedish for a short time, but something that you use from the very beginning of your studies is personal pronouns (jag, du, han/hon/den/det, vi, ni, de) and the object form of them (mig, dig, honom/henne/den/det, oss, er, dem). But these pronouns have several practical functions in the Swedish language. Subject…
Swedish Possessive and Possessive Reflexive Pronouns Posted by Tibor on Oct 7, 2011
Hon dansar med sin man. She is dancingwith her (own) husband. Both the subject and the so called reflexive possessive pronoun belong together in this sentence. Marked with black. Hon is a personal pronoun, while sin is reflexive possessive pronoun for en-nouns. En man – sin man Hon har glömt sitt paraply idag. She has…
Swedish Idioms I. (animals) Posted by Tibor on Sep 28, 2011
Det var som katten! or Det var som fan! eng. Well, I´ll be damned Att ge katten/fan på. eng. To bet one´s life on it. Att lägga lök på laxen. eng. To make matters worse. Det är något i hästväg. eng. It´s something extraordinary. Arg som ett bi. eng. To be furious. Envis som…
Lisa Ekdahl´s Vem vet with English and Swedish subs. Posted by Tibor on Sep 27, 2011
Swedish Slang Words (Verbs) Posted by Tibor on Sep 26, 2011
Some of the Swedish slang words are estabilished in today´s written language. It is a trend that salng words come and go fast, but some of them become a part of the everyday vocabulary. Hereby, follows some example: (to do nothing, to rest, to be lazy) att vila, att lata sig= att dega (to drink…
Breaking news – Swedish Design goes London Posted by Tibor on Sep 19, 2011
Swedish Design Goes London During the Design Festival. Click here to download the catalogue With exhibitions, seminars, talks and several producers and designers, Swedish design will be very visible in the British capital in September 2011. To start with, the Ambassador of Sweden will exclusively open up her Residence at Portland Place for a Swedish design…