Archive for 'Swedish Language'
Swedish Grammar: This and that, Part 1 Posted by Stephen Maconi on Sep 29, 2014
Hej allihopa! 😀 This is the first part in a series of three (3) posts that will tell you all about how to say “this” and “that” in Swedish. In this first part, I will talk about how to say “this”. So, how do you say “this” in Swedish? There are two ways: den här and denna…
Swedish False Friends Posted by Marcus Cederström on Aug 29, 2014
A while ago, we talked about some of those words in Swedish that are the same in English in a creatively titled post English Words in Swedish. They’re the ones that make learning a language just a little bit easier. Of course, learning a language is always a challenge, no matter how many cognates there…
Boxes and hedgehogs: Expressing “there is/are” in Swedish Posted by Stephen Maconi on Aug 13, 2014
Tjena! Let me present to you the next installment in the Swedish with Steve series: “Boxes and hedgehogs: Expressing ‘there is/are’ in Swedish”. In a previous post, I told you about the Swedish verb vara and its different forms. This time, I’m going to teach you how to say “there is” or “there are”. For…
English Words in Swedish Posted by Marcus Cederström on Jul 31, 2014
Languages change. There’s phonetic change and morphological change and lexical change. Sometimes they’re obvious and other times maybe a bit less so. But, for the most part, these changes do not mean that the language is dying or disappearing. You hear that a lot when people start wondering about the number of foreign words making…
Dogs and houses: Swedish gender and articles Posted by Stephen Maconi on Jun 30, 2014
Hej! In today’s episode of Swedish with Steve, I discuss the two Swedish genders (common and neuter) and their respective articles, both indefinite and indefinite. In Swedish, there are two genders, or genus: common and neuter. The Swedes call these two genders utrum and neutrum, respectively. Many second-language students of Swedish, however, prefer to call them “-n-gender” and…
One of the most important Swedish verbs: vara, “to be” Posted by Stephen Maconi on Jun 20, 2014
Hey guys! There are important verbs in every language. One of them is almost always some sort of copula verb, as in the case of Swedish. Vara is a verb you simply cannot go without! In this video I explain how to express “to be” in Swedish. The verb vara, “to be”, has many uses. For example…
The peculiar Swedish “k” Posted by Stephen Maconi on Mar 28, 2014
Hejsan! I’ve had a lot going on for the past weeks so haven’t managed to finish editing my latest video until now. It’s called “The cat who drove the refrigerator into the church” and is about the Swedish letter “k”. “K”, in Swedish, is a peculiar letter that can be pronounced in (basically) two different…