{"id":6598,"date":"2014-03-28T18:18:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T18:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=6598"},"modified":"2014-03-28T18:26:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T18:26:47","slug":"the-peculiar-swedish-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/the-peculiar-swedish-k\/","title":{"rendered":"The peculiar Swedish &#8220;k&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hejsan!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a lot going on for the past weeks so haven&#8217;t managed to finish editing my latest video until now. It&#8217;s called &#8220;The cat who drove the refrigerator into the church&#8221; and is about the Swedish letter &#8220;k&#8221;. &#8220;K&#8221;, in Swedish, is a peculiar letter that can be pronounced in (basically) two different ways. (If you&#8217;re a hardcore linguist, then that number is actually higher, but there&#8217;s no use in confusing you if you&#8217;re not!)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video. My suggestion is to watch it first and then review with the rest of this post. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swedish with Steve: The cat who drove the refrigerator into the church\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uFNfIMMDaZg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Katten k\u00f6rde kylsk\u00e5pet in i kyrkan<\/em><\/strong><em><strong>.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>The cat drove the refrigerator into the church.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>katt[en]<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0: &#8220;[the] cat&#8221;<br \/>\n<em><strong>k\u00f6rde<\/strong><\/em> : &#8220;drove&#8221; (past tense of\u00a0k\u00f6ra)<br \/>\n<em><b>kylsk\u00e5p[et]<\/b><\/em>\u00a0: &#8220;[the] refrigerator&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong><i>in<\/i><i> i<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0: &#8220;into&#8221;<br \/>\n<em><strong>kyrka[n]<\/strong><\/em> : &#8220;[the] church&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hard <em>k:n<\/em> (&#8220;K&#8217;s&#8221;, plural of <em>k<\/em>)\u00a0are pronounced [k] and soft\u00a0<em>k:n<\/em> are pronounced\u00a0[\u0255] (similar to an English &#8220;sh&#8221;-sound but slightly brighter). The <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>soft\u00a0<em>k:n<\/em><\/strong><\/span> in the example are colored in orange while the <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>hard <em>k:n<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0are colored in blue below:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">K<\/span>atten <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">k<\/span>\u00f6rde <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">k<\/span>yls<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">k<\/span>\u00e5pet in i<\/em><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"> k<\/span>yr<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">k<\/span>an.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<strong>soft vowels<\/strong>&#8220;, which make\u00a0<em>k<\/em>\u00a0&#8220;soft&#8221; are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>e<\/strong> : <strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">ke<\/span>la<\/em> <\/strong>: &#8220;snuggle&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>i<\/strong> : <strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Ki<\/span>na<\/em> <\/strong>: &#8220;China&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>y<\/strong> : <strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">ky<\/span>lsk\u00e5p<\/em> <\/strong>: &#8220;refrigerator&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>\u00e4<\/strong> : <strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">k\u00e4<\/span>r<\/em> <\/strong>: &#8220;dear&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>\u00f6<\/strong> : <strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">k\u00f6<\/span>rde<\/em><\/strong> : &#8220;drove&#8221; (past tense of <em>k\u00f6ra<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;hard vowels&#8221;, which make\u00a0<em>k<\/em>\u00a0&#8220;hard&#8221; (this is the original\u00a0<em>k<\/em>-sound, before historic sound changes) are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>a<\/strong> : <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">ka<\/span>tt<\/strong> : cat<br \/>\n<strong>o<\/strong> : <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>ko<\/strong><\/span> : cow<br \/>\n<strong>u<\/strong> : <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">ku<\/span>l<\/strong> : fun<br \/>\n<strong>\u00e5<\/strong> : <strong>kyls<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">k\u00e5<\/span>p<\/strong> : refrigerator<\/p>\n<p>Languages being languages, there are exceptions in which\u00a0<em>k:n<\/em> followed by soft vowels are pronounced hard:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">ki<\/span>lle<\/strong> : &#8220;guy&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">k\u00f6<\/span>r<\/strong> : &#8220;choir&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2192 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">BUT:<\/span> <strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">k\u00f6<\/span>r<\/em><\/strong> &#8220;drive&#8221; (past tense of\u00a0<em>k\u00f6ra<\/em>) (These words have different origins.\u00a0<em>K\u00f6r<\/em> as in &#8220;choir&#8221; is a loan word;\u00a0<em>k\u00f6r<\/em> as in &#8220;drive&#8221; is a native Swedish word. You can remember this exception from the former&#8217;s similarity to the English word &#8220;choir&#8221;, which also has a hard k-sound.)<\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend, everyone!!\u00a0<em>Ha det s\u00e5 bra!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hejsan! I&#8217;ve had a lot going on for the past weeks so haven&#8217;t managed to finish editing my latest video until now. 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