{"id":254,"date":"2009-08-26T08:36:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T12:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=254"},"modified":"2009-08-26T08:36:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T12:36:05","slug":"dem-pesky-personal-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/dem-pesky-personal-pronouns\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Pesky Personal Pronouns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I got an email asking me to clarify which form of the third person plural personal pronoun (that would be the Swedish equivalent of \u201cthey\u201d in English) was correct. The question, of course, was about \u201c<strong>de<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>dom<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm\u2026 it\u2019s an interesting question. Both of those words are pronounced the same \u2013 as \u201d<strong>dom<\/strong>\u201d and mean exactly the same. In fact, the explanation that you can see in many grammar books for foreigners is that we write \u201c<strong>de<\/strong>\u201d and pronounce it \u201c<strong>dom<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm\u2026 then what about those not so infrequent times when you can see \u201c<strong>dom<\/strong>\u201d actually written as \u201c<strong>dom<\/strong>\u201d? Though personally it rubs me the wrong way, you can find plenty of \u201c<strong>dom<\/strong>\u201d in less formal written Swedish. And that\u2019s one thing I really don\u2019t understand. After all it\u2019s so much faster and more efficient to write \u201c<strong>de<\/strong>\u201d instead of \u201c<strong>dom<\/strong>\u201d. And I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s just me, but \u201c<strong>de<\/strong>\u201d just LOOKS more sophisticated, too.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, we say \u201c<strong>dom<\/strong>\u201d and write it mostly as \u201c<strong>de<\/strong>\u201d, except for the times when we write it as \u201c<strong>dom<\/strong>\u201d. Easy!<\/p>\n<p>But then there\u2019s \u201c<strong>dem<\/strong>\u201d which also sounds like \u201c<strong>dom<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Dem<\/strong>\u201d is the object pronoun of \u201c<strong>de<\/strong>\u201d. <em>\u201cWhat\u2019s that?\u201d<\/em>, I hear you ask. That\u2019s when a personal pronoun acts as an object in a sentence. Like that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jag ser dem<\/strong>. \u2013 I can see them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So basically, you have two different words: \u201c<strong>de<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>dem<\/strong>\u201d, which are both pronounced as \u201c<strong>dom<\/strong>\u201d. And sometimes written as \u201c<strong>dom<\/strong>\u201d as well.<\/p>\n<p>See? That wasn\u2019t confusing at all, now, was it? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I got an email asking me to clarify which form of the third person plural personal pronoun (that would be the Swedish equivalent of \u201cthey\u201d in English) was correct. The question, of course, was about \u201cde\u201d and \u201cdom\u201d. Hmmm\u2026 it\u2019s an interesting question. Both of those words are pronounced the same \u2013&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/dem-pesky-personal-pronouns\/\">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":[364864,2381],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar","tag-grammar","tag-personal-pronouns"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}