Tag Archives: verbs
Bake Swedish Cinnamon Buns Using Imperative Verbs! Posted by Chelsea B on Feb 18, 2020
I don’t know if it’s my animal instinct to bulk up for winter or my general love for baked goods, but I have been eating a lot of sweet and doughy things lately. Below I’ll share a Swedish language recipe for cinnamon buns highlighting imperative form. You’ll learn verbs specific to baking and come away…
A Master List of Swedish Resources for Christmas Posted by Chelsea B on Dec 24, 2019
God jul, folks! This year for Christmas I’m giving you all the gift of web resources! The internet is truly a magical place nowadays for language study, but there is a lot out there and it can be hard to sort it all out. Below, you’ll find some of my favorite web resources for grammar…
What do you usually, often, never do in Swedish? Posted by Chelsea B on Nov 19, 2019
Last week’s blog post was all about how helping verbs describe what we “can, need, must, may” do. In this post, we’ll discuss the Swedish word brukar, or “usually”, which also functions as a helping verb. This verb comes in handy when talking about your daily routine, what you usually do in your free…
Step up your Swedish with helping verbs Posted by Chelsea B on Nov 12, 2019
Mastering Swedish hjälpverb, or helping verbs, is a stellar skill. Once my Swedish students have good command over basic sentence structure and present tense verbs, it’s go-time for this concept in class! Helping verbs are sprinkled everywhere into everyday Swedish, and are important in building conversation skills. Swedish helping verb construction A helping verb…
Particle Verbs Posted by Marcus Cederström on Nov 28, 2013
Particle verbs (or phrasal verbs) aren’t always easy. In fact, tacking on that particle, usually a preposition or adverb, at the end of a verb can really change the meaning of a word. We have them in English too: pick on, look after, make out. So how do you tell the difference? When speaking (and…
A Swedish lesson from a 3-year old Posted by Gabriel on May 24, 2010
Tänka, tycka, tro Posted by Tibor on Mar 4, 2010
You guys have surely been wondering what the differences are between these three words. It is nothing strange with them, since everyone can find similar words in their own languages. But sometimes it can happen that you would use a different verb in cases when tänka, tycka, tro are used in Swedish. It can be tricky. Sometimes the translation of…