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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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