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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…
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…
Inverted sentences, Part 1 Posted by Stephen Maconi on Sep 21, 2011
You may have noticed that sometimes Swedish speakers do not place the subject of their sentences first, before the verb, as you would in English. Heck, sometimes they leave out the subject entirely (in spoken language): Jag stötte på Malin på stan idag. Visste inte hon var på besök här! I ran into Malin in…
Många vs. Mycket Posted by Marcus Cederström on Sep 15, 2011
Jenny’s post on Hur mycket kostar det? definitely hit a nerve, not just because I am a poor student again and ask that question all the time, but because it did a wonderful job of demonstrating a very important “how” question. One that in this case uses mycket – much. But there is another “how”…
Infinitives in Swedish Posted by Stephen Maconi on Sep 6, 2011
When learning Swedish vocabulary, you will come across many different types of words, and naturally, many of these words are verbs – action words. For example, springa – to run – is a verb. Verbs can be shown to students of Swedish in many different forms, but for memorization, the most common form is the…
Swedish Worksheet – Verb Answers Posted by Marcus Cederström on Apr 13, 2011
As promised, the answers. Hope it went well! Infinitiv Presens Preteritum Supinum Imperativ English lyssna lyssnar lyssnade lyssnat lyssna listen hoppa hoppar hoppade hoppat hoppa jump, hop stänga stänger stängde stängt stäng close resa reser reste rest res travel må mår mådde mått må feel (abstract) undvika undviker undvek undvikit undvik avoid sova sover sov…