Archive for 'Grammar'
Direct vs. Indirect Speech in Swedish Posted by Marcus Cederström on May 30, 2012
Just recently, we received a comment on Facebook (you should really check out our Facebook page. You get new vocab words every day, as well as great discussion and some beautiful pictures of Sweden!) about indirect vs. direct speech asking for a quick explanation. Tibor is working on some really great posts about Swedish syntax…
Syntax in (Main and bi-clause) part 1. Posted by Tibor on May 29, 2012
Fundament is the most important part of a sentence, i.e. the word that comes on the first place in a Swedish sentence. On the first place there can be 5 different types of clause elements. These are the most usual ones. In my next post I will discuss subordinate clauses. Maybe you wonder what a…
The Swedish Definite vs. Indefinite Posted by Marcus Cederström on May 28, 2012
It’s been quite a while since we discussed definite vs. indefinite nouns so I thought I’d dust it off for any of you new Swedish language learners. If you’d like, feel free to check out our two part series: En or Ett and En or Ett Continued. Of course, we’re all quite familiar with the…
The future tenses (SKA or KOMMER ATT) Posted by Tibor on Apr 14, 2012
There are three ways to express future actions in the Swedish language. Present Simple + Adverb/s of time. SKA KOMMER ATT In most languages you can use the Present Tense for expressing future action as well. But then of course you need some kind of cursor or to add something extra to…
Future tenses in Swedish (SKA or KOMMER ATT) Posted by Tibor on Apr 14, 2012
There are three ways to express future actions in the Swedish language. Present Simple + Adverb/s of time. SKA KOMMER ATT In most languages you can use the Present Tense for expressing future action as well. But then of course you need some kind of cursor or to add something extra to…
‘Big’ and ‘small’ in Swedish Posted by Stephen Maconi on Apr 12, 2012
Compared to most countries, Sweden is very small, at least in terms of population. Despite that, from the greatly dominant forests of this land have come numerous inventions and developments: from dynamite and the pacemaker to ABBA and IKEA. Several famous scientists that have contributed immensely to the world of science also come from Sweden…
Swedish Sentence Adverbials Posted by Marcus Cederström on Mar 26, 2012
It’s a super exciting topic. Sentence adverbials. In Swedish, sentence adverbials are those little words or phrases that get thrown into a sentence to They’re those little things that get thrown into a sentence to modify the sentence. They usually describe time, or place, or even the way something is being done. There are a…