{"id":4683,"date":"2011-11-25T20:11:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T20:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2011-11-26T01:11:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T01:11:57","slug":"writing-utensils-in-swedish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/writing-utensils-in-swedish\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing utensils in Swedish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sweden has just as many different types of writing utensils as any other country. And as in many languages (although certainly not all) there are different words for these different types of writing utensils. However, there is one main word used to refer to a writing utensil, and that is penna<\/strong>. Penna<\/em> can mean either ‘pen’, ‘pencil’, or ‘marker’, to name a few, depending on the context.<\/p>\n

If you are going to take a test and you’re told to use a ‘pencil’, then instead of saying blyertspenna<\/strong> in the following description of the test, the word is replaced with just penna<\/em>. The same goes for bl\u00e4ckpenna<\/strong>, or what we know simply as ‘pen’\u2014that is, an ink pen\u2014if it is already understood that the speaker\/writer means ‘pen’, then he or she may simply use the word penna<\/em> in the following text. En markeringspenna<\/strong> is a ‘marker’, and this word can be used the same way.<\/p>\n

In contrast to these scenarios, if there is no context, then you can assume that the speaker\/writer means that you can use whatever type of writing utensil you will.<\/p>\n

Here’s how you conjugate the word penna<\/em> (here its translation will be simplified to ‘pen’):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
en penna<\/td>\na\/one pen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
pennor<\/td>\npens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
pennan<\/td>\nthe pen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
pennorna<\/td>\nthe pens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sweden has just as many different types of writing utensils as any other country. And as in many languages (although certainly not all) there are different words for these different types of writing utensils. However, there is one main word used to refer to a writing utensil, and that is penna. Penna can mean either…<\/p>\n

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