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Using the construction “Det känns som …” Posted by Stephen Maconi on Nov 29, 2012
Greetings, readers! I hope you enjoyed my previous post about Göteborg. (If you haven’t checked it out, you’re missing a personally-filmed video!) This time around, I would like to discuss a certain construction found in the Swedish language, namely sentences that start or end with the phrase Det känns som … . It is a…
Som – A Swedish Relative Pronoun Posted by Marcus Cederström on Nov 16, 2012
I have a brother. He lives in Sweden. I have another brother. He lives in the US. These are four acceptable English sentences. If I was describing my family to you, you would know exactly what I was talking about. I would have conveyed meaning. You may also have found this manner of speaking to…
Suffixes: -aktig and -mässig Posted by Stephen Maconi on Oct 23, 2012
In the Swedish language, there are lots of different avledningar, or bound morphemes that you can add to words to change their part of speech as well as their function in a given context. Some examples of avledningar are: -het be- för- (when unemphasized) -ig -lig -bar And there are many more. But two avledningar…
Personal Pronouns Den, det, de/dom, dem Posted by Tibor on Oct 11, 2012
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Adjectives and specificness in Swedish, Part 2 Posted by Stephen Maconi on Sep 28, 2012
Eariler this week, I posted an article here on the Transparent Swedish Blog about how adjectives are conjugated in Swedish when describing uncountable nouns. Now I will explain how to conjugate adjectives when using countable nouns! First, a short review of adjectives in general. Adjectives can come either within nominal phrases (for example, en…
Fronting – Swedish Style Posted by Marcus Cederström on Sep 27, 2012
We’ve talked about adverbials before (Swedish Sentence Adverbials), they are those super handy words and phrases that help modify our sentences. Tibor has done an amazing job writing about some of the different types like Time Adverbs with certain tenses and RUMSADVERBIAL (Adverbs of place). Definitely check them out for more information. Today, I’m going…
Adjectives and specificness in Swedish Posted by Stephen Maconi on Sep 24, 2012
Adjectives can come either within nominal phrases (for example, en stor hund, ‘a large dog’) or in the predicate (for example, hunden är stor, ‘the dog is large‘). Depending on where in the syntax of a Swedish sentence the adjective comes, it must be conjugated according to different rules. Here are the rules for uncountable…