Just how tired are you? Posted by Katja on Jul 4, 2012 in Swedish Language
Depending on what modifiers you use in front of the adjective the degree of what is or what you are changes quite a lot. We’ll take a look at the most common words which change the degree of how you are feeling. Once you have learned these words your language will take on a much more nuanced form, letting you express yourself to a much greater extent.
We’ll start by saying that we are tired.
– Jag är trött.
But just how tired are you?
– Jag är väldigt trött.
Oh ok, so you are very tired. But if you had wanted to reassure your friend that you weren’t at all tired, what would you have said then?
– Jag är inte alls trött.
This works for any number of words. Today we will just stick feelings. Next, we can say that we are angry or happy.
– Jag är as arg. (this is slang). Förbannad rent ut sagt faktiskt.
( I am very angry, just plain fuming actually. )
– Jag är super glad.
– Ja du ser otroligt glad ut.
– Det regnar sjukt mycket.
– Jag känner mig en aning sjuk.
As you can see all these words are placed in front of the adjective describing you or almost anything else as well. Good luck using them and many more!
Svenska | English | Comments |
Något | slightly | |
väldigt | Extremely | |
Mycket | very | |
Rätt så | quite | |
otroligt | Extremely | |
super | super | |
skit | very | *slang |
as | very | *slang |
extremt | extremely | |
lite | A little | |
svagt | slightly | |
En aning | A bit | |
En smula | A tiny bit | |
jätte | very | |
Inte så mycket | Not very much | |
ganska | quite | |
Inte alls | Not at all | |
sjukt | Extremely | *slang |
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Comments:
Bengan:
The word “as” is not an adjective, it’s a noun, or an intensifier prefix, if you like. So the example sentence should be “Jag är asarg”, and I guess in the table it should be listed as “as-“.
Same thing goes for “super”, “skit” and “jätte”.