A hairy debate Posted by jennie on Mar 20, 2012
Sweden’s entry to the big Eurovision Song Contest is finally chosen and no, it’s not Björn Ranelid. In fact, it seems like the Swedes for once agreed on this year’song, since it broke the all time high voting record. So, everybody’s happy, then? No raging debates in the evening papers and in social media? Well…
Swedish Syntax variations in main clauses Posted by Tibor on Mar 19, 2012
Fundament is the most important part of a sentence, i.e. the word that comes on the first place in a Swedish sentence. On the first place there can be 5 different types of clause elements. 1, Subjekt=Subject 2,Tidsadverbial, platsadverbial, sättsadverbial= Different kind of adverbs 3, Bisats=Subordinate clause 4, Objekt=Object 5, Fågeord=Interrogative words 6, Ingenthing=Nothing Two…
Lived in Sweden too long? Posted by Katja on Mar 16, 2012
Humerous way of looking at Sweden and Swedes Most of these phenomenon are probably known to you, I as a Swede know of them but still enjoyed reading, so I thought I’d share. Either you know you have lived in Sweden too long, or you know you’re a true Swede when you recognize yourself in most…
Go Fish in Swedish Posted by Stephen Maconi on Mar 14, 2012
One of the most popular card games (at least in the United States) is Go Fish. (For those of you who don’t know what it is or how to play it, read all about it on Wikipedia.) In Swedish, Go Fish is called Finns i sjön. Here’s how you play, in Swedish with color-coded English…
Swedish Sayings on Twitter! Posted by Marcus Cederström on Mar 12, 2012
A little over a week ago, a trending hashtag on Twitter was #swedishsayings. It was an entertaining look at some of the different sayings in Swedish and their literal English translations. Since then, there has been a steady stream of different idioms that have been translated to English. And it entertains me to no end…
Swedish names Posted by Katja on Mar 8, 2012
The naming of your child in Sweden is a process that actually has to go through the Swedish tax agency. Recently unusual names have become the norm. Names for girls like Elin, Anna, Hanna, Sofie, Lisa, Felicia and Moa have just in the past year been substituted for 1200 new girls’ names and 1000 new…
Computer verbs Posted by Stephen Maconi on Mar 7, 2012
Last week, I posted a list of computer-related vocabulary, centered specifically around hardware (or in Swedish, hårdvara). This time, I’m going to go through a list of software-related vocabulary, or more specifically computer-related verbs. So, for those of you who use a word processor (for example) but don’t dare to change the interface language to…