Archive for 'Grammar'
The Days of the Week in Swedish Posted by Marcus Cederström on Nov 28, 2011
I was reading through some of our older posts here and realized it had been quite some time since we got down to some of the basics. The days of the week. And the months. Luckily for you, Tibor did an amazing job of explaining the Time Adverbs with certain tenses. It’s a great way…
Writing utensils in Swedish Posted by Stephen Maconi on Nov 25, 2011
Sweden has just as many different types of writing utensils as any other country. And as in many languages (although certainly not all) there are different words for these different types of writing utensils. However, there is one main word used to refer to a writing utensil, and that is penna. Penna can mean either…
Learning Swedish with Janne Lucas Posted by Marcus Cederström on Nov 22, 2011
I’ve written a couple of posts about Melodifestivalen here at Transparent, one titled (creatively enough) Melodifestivalen and the other (again, my creativity knows no bounds) Swedish Schlager. I am a shameless promoter of schlager music, whether it be Swedish, English, or German. I find the performances hilarious and the catchy songs even more so. It…
The current weather in Uppsala Posted by Stephen Maconi on Nov 18, 2011
You can read all over the internet about the typical climate in Sweden and possibly even that in particular locations in Sweden. But today I’m going to give you something different: the current weather in Uppsala! What’s the point? Well, just imagine yourself in your favorite Swedish scenery with the following weather pattern for the…
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…
The Swedish Future Tense Posted by Marcus Cederström on Nov 4, 2011
One of the first things we learn as new language learners is the present tense. It’s incredibly useful and allows us to describe exactly what we are doing, right now. Of course, in everyday conversation, describing what we are doing right now is not used as much as a first year Swedish learner might like…
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…