Tag Archives: Swedish vocabulary
15 Scary Swedish Adjectives Posted by Marcus Cederström on Oct 31, 2013
Happy Halloween! As we learned in 15 Scary Swedish Creatures, Swedes don’t really celebrate Halloween. They’ve got Alla helgons dag instead. Of course, scary creatures can come out at any time of the year and that means you need some scary adjectives to describe them. Steve has covered some of the grammatical details of adjectives…
15 Scary Swedish Creatures Posted by Marcus Cederström on Oct 24, 2013
Halloween isn’t really a Swedish holiday. In fact, it hasn’t been until the last few years that Halloween has really made any sort of appearance in Swedish culture. Of course, just because there aren’t a bunch of witches and wizards running around looking for treats on October 31, doesn’t mean there aren’t witches and wizards…
Drunken Moose and Swedish Months Posted by Marcus Cederström on Sep 27, 2013
Maybe you saw the news from a month ago. Radio Sweden released a short report about a gang of drunken moose tormenting Swedes. (You can click here for the original.) It was picked up by plenty of news agencies here in the US and categorized under the “Weird” news section in plenty of places. It’s…
14 Swedish Abbreviations You Need to Know Posted by Marcus Cederström on May 7, 2013
Learning vocabulary can be a challenge sometimes. But then there are those little moments when you hear the word, or maybe you just read it, and you get it. The smile creeps over your face, maybe you throw your arms up in the air like Rocky running up the stairs of the Philadelphia Art Museum…
25 Most Frequent Academic Words in Swedish Posted by Marcus Cederström on Jan 22, 2013
Academic writing can be difficult to get through, no matter what language you’re working in. It can be even more of a challenge if you’re trying to get through an academic text in your second (or third, or fourth, or whatever…) language – like Swedish. Just like all aspects of language though, there are certain…
Education Vocabulary in Swedish Posted by Marcus Cederström on Oct 9, 2012
Plenty of readers here are working on their Swedish as they study away at university. So what better way than to include yet another vocabulary list? This one covers about about 20 different fields of study and an extra 15 words or so. It’s a long vocabulary list this time. It’s a long vocabulary this…
Autumn Vocab List – Swedish Posted by Marcus Cederström on Oct 2, 2012
Fall is here. Officially it’s been here for a while, but as the leaves fall from the trees, the days get shorter, and the temperatures get just a bit cooler, it’s time to take a look at some of the common words used to describe the fall. So, without further ado, here is list with…