{"id":6592,"date":"2014-03-03T22:41:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T22:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=6592"},"modified":"2014-03-03T22:47:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T22:47:05","slug":"swedish-with-steve-returns-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/swedish-with-steve-returns-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish with Steve Returns to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hej<\/em>, dear readers!<\/p>\n<p>On the 10th of June, 2011, I posted my last Swedish language video, a review of my series <em>Swedish with Steve<\/em>, here on the Transparent Swedish Blog.\u00a0It was my final year of high school and I was planning a return back to Sweden to study Swedish at university level. My plans ended up working out \u2013\u00a0albeit after a particularly high level of uncertainty and confusion \u2013\u00a0and in three months from now, I will finally be a Bachelor of Swedish and Nordic Languages! The reason why I stopped making videos was so I could focus on my studies and realize this dream.<\/p>\n<p>I have now reached a time in my university career in which I can plan my own studies and do everything at my own pace. As a result, and after several months of contemplating, I have decided to take up making Swedish videos again. So, here&#8217;s to the start to a <strong>new season of Swedish with Steve!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/axqMbifSGg8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen title=\"Embedded video\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This episode covers the Swedish verbs\u00a0<em>bo<\/em> and\u00a0<em>leva<\/em>, which both mean &#8220;to live&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The English verb &#8220;live&#8221; can be used to specify both\u00a0<em>where<\/em>\u00a0one lives and\u00a0<em>that<\/em> one lives or is alive. In Swedish, there is a distinction between\u00a0<em>att bo<\/em> and\u00a0<em>att leva<\/em>. <em>Bo<\/em> is the word you use when you want to tell someone where you &#8220;dwell&#8221; or &#8220;reside&#8221;. For example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Jag bor i Sverige.<\/em> &#8211; I live in Sweden.<br \/>\n<em>Du bodde i Venedig i ett \u00e5r.<\/em> &#8211; You lived in Venice for a year.<br \/>\n<em>Gustav bodde p\u00e5 en g\u00e5rd som barn.<\/em> &#8211; Gustav lived on a farm as a child.<\/p>\n<p><em>Leva<\/em>, on the other hand, means &#8220;to live&#8221; as in &#8220;to be alive&#8221;. It pertains to the experience of life itself. For example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>95-\u00e5ringen lever fortfarande.<\/em> &#8211; The 95 year-old still lives\/is still alive.<br \/>\n<em>S\u00e5ngerskan levde ett h\u00e5rt liv.<\/em> &#8211; The singer (female) lived a hard life.<br \/>\n<em>Hennes minne lever vidare.<\/em> &#8211; Her memory lives on.<\/p>\n<p>It is incorrect to say *<em>95-\u00e5ringen bor fortfarande<\/em> as a sentence on its own\u00a0\u2013 you have to specify\u00a0<em>where<\/em> if you use\u00a0<em>bo<\/em>. For instance, you could say:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>95-\u00e5ringen bor fortfarande <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">i byn<\/span>.<\/em> &#8211; The 95 year-old still lives\/is still living\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">in the village<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>However, while it&#8217;s true that\u00a0<em>bo<\/em> and\u00a0<em>leva<\/em>\u00a0are not interchangeable, it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">not<\/span> incorrect to say the following; it just has a different meaning:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Jag lever verkligen i Sverige.<\/em> &#8211; I really feel alive in Sweden. (Lit.: &#8220;I really live\/am really alive in Sweden.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>It makes more sense if you compare your living situation in one place to that in another:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Jag levde inte riktigt i Danmark. Jag lever d\u00e4remot i Sverige.<\/em> &#8211; I wasn&#8217;t really\u00a0<em>alive<\/em> in Denmark. I am, however, alive in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>(Denmark is most certainly a lovely place to live, but my fictional example character didn&#8217;t feel as &#8220;alive&#8221; in Denmark as in Sweden. To each his own. :))<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to philosophical statements about society, it makes much more sense to say:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Vi\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">lever<\/span> i ett perfekt samh\u00e4lle.<\/em> &#8211; We\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">live<\/span> in a perfect society.<\/p>\n<p>than to use\u00a0<em>bo<\/em>. We don&#8217;t reside in society; we\u00a0<em>live<\/em> it each and every day.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, as a reminder, Swedish verbs are different from, for example, the Romance languages, in that they are\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">not<\/span> conjugated based on person (yay!):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6594\" alt=\"20140220table\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/03\/20140220table.png\" width=\"606\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/03\/20140220table.png 606w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/03\/20140220table-350x124.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoyed the video and learned something! Have a great month of March, everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"124\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/03\/20140220table-350x124.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/03\/20140220table-350x124.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/03\/20140220table.png 606w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Hej, dear readers! On the 10th of June, 2011, I posted my last Swedish language video, a review of my series Swedish with Steve, here on the Transparent Swedish Blog.\u00a0It was my final year of high school and I was planning a return back to Sweden to study Swedish at university level. 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