Archive for 'Swedish Language'
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…
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…
Swedish proverbs Posted by Katja on Nov 1, 2011
Personally, I love proverbs. They help me understand different ways of thinking and cultural differences. Depending on how big the cultural differences are between your country and Sweden some of these sayings you might have heard in your own language or can see the logic in them just by understanding the words. Others are however…
Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Faroese and Icelandic in a comparative context. Posted by Tibor on Oct 20, 2011
English My name is Martin. My mother is a nurse and dad is a teacher in English. I have a brother whose name is Kim and a sister called Mia. They go to secondary school. We live in a big, old house by the sea. I will graduate this May and I will do some…
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…
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…
The Facebook changes Posted by jennie on Sep 22, 2011
As all Facebook-user would be well aware of by now, the page went through a complete and sudden make over yesterday. That said, a make over tend to be for the better and the world of Facebook users don’t seem to agree on this one. The debate kicked off immediately and the judgements were harsh…