{"id":128,"date":"2008-12-18T17:59:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T21:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=128"},"modified":"2008-12-18T17:59:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T21:59:19","slug":"use-of-capital-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/use-of-capital-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of Capital Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post I mentioned that \u201c<strong>jul<\/strong>\u201d in Swedish is written with a small letter. In all fairness, in some cases it IS written with a capital. You can see it especially in advertisements and greetings.<\/p>\n<p>And in his comment, Luke from Sydney very aptly pointed out that it\u2019s not only \u201c<strong>jul<\/strong>\u201d \u2013 names of the days of the week also begin with a small letter in Swedish:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>m\u00e5ndag<\/strong> \u2013 Monday<\/li>\n<li><strong>tisdag<\/strong> \u2013 Tuesday<\/li>\n<li><strong>onsdag<\/strong> \u2013 Wednesday<\/li>\n<li><strong>torsdag<\/strong> \u2013 Thursday<\/li>\n<li><strong>fredag<\/strong> \u2013 Friday<\/li>\n<li><strong>l\u00f6rdag<\/strong> \u2013 Saturday<\/li>\n<li><strong>s\u00f6ndag<\/strong> \u2013 Sunday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For example: <strong>Vi reser till fj\u00e4llen p\u00e5 m\u00e5ndag.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same with months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>januari<\/strong> \u2013 January<\/li>\n<li><strong>februari<\/strong> &#8211; February<\/li>\n<li><strong>mars<\/strong> &#8211; March<\/li>\n<li><strong>april<\/strong> &#8211; April<\/li>\n<li><strong>maj<\/strong> &#8211; Maj<\/li>\n<li><strong>juni<\/strong> &#8211; June<\/li>\n<li><strong>juli<\/strong> &#8211; July<\/li>\n<li><strong>augusti<\/strong> &#8211; August<\/li>\n<li><strong>september<\/strong> \u2013 September<\/li>\n<li><strong>oktober<\/strong> \u2013 October<\/li>\n<li><strong>november<\/strong> &#8211; November<\/li>\n<li><strong>december<\/strong> \u2013 December<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For example: <strong>I V\u00e4sterbotten b\u00f6rjar vintern redan i slutet av oktober.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not all. Unlike in English, in Swedish all nationality words also begin with a small letter. So, all the names of languages, and adjectives used to describe national origin, as well as nationalities, are all written with a small letter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>engelska<\/strong> \u2013 English<\/li>\n<li><strong>tyska<\/strong> \u2013 German<\/li>\n<li><strong>spanska<\/strong> \u2013 Spanish<\/li>\n<li><strong>svenska<\/strong> &#8211; Swedish<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For example: <strong>Jag kan prata svenska, engelska och spanska.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>En japansk person \u00e4r en person fr\u00e5n Japan. En kvinna kan ocks\u00e5 kallas en japanska.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nSo, just a little something to keep in mind when you write in Swedish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post I mentioned that \u201cjul\u201d in Swedish is written with a small letter. In all fairness, in some cases it IS written with a capital. You can see it especially in advertisements and greetings. And in his comment, Luke from Sydney very aptly pointed out that it\u2019s not only \u201cjul\u201d \u2013 names&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/use-of-capital-letters\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3134,364864,146],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar","tag-capital-letters","tag-grammar","tag-spelling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}