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Swedish Possessive Pronouns – Min, Mitt, Mina Posted by on Apr 12, 2016

In my last post, The Swedish Definite Form – Demonstrative Pronouns, I messed up. I wrote the following sentence: Detta röda hus är min. This red house is mine. See what I did wrong? Min. It should have been mitt. Detta röda hus är mitt. Why? Because hus is an ett-word. Ett hus. When…

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Swedish Pronouns Posted by on Jul 19, 2010

 Singular and Plural  1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd person  Grundform or Personal Pronouns  Object forms  Possessive  Reflexive  Reflexive possessive  singular:  1 person  jag  mig  min  (verb) + mig  min    2 person  du  dig  din  (verb) + dig  din    3 person  han, hon  honom, henne  hans, hennes  (verb) + sig  sin    3…

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It’s a sin! Posted by on Jul 4, 2009

Well, not really a sin, but simply “sin”. It’s one of those fun “false friends”- words that look the same in both English and Swedish, but have different meanings. And we could pretty much leave it at that, but unfortunately, this Swedish “sin” can be a bit problematic for English speakers. You see, it’s a…

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Swedish Possessive Pronouns Posted by on Jun 30, 2009

I have never suspected that possessive pronouns (possessiva pronomen) can be the cause of so many emails! In my post about birthdays, I used a couple of possessive pronouns, and seemingly all of you who had my email address got in touch saying something along those lines “Yo Anna, if you are going to use…

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