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Prepositions<\/strong> are a pain. When I first started learning Swedish, I found Swedish prepositions so frustrating, because they often didn’t always match the English ones exactly. Or the Spanish ones. Or the German ones.<\/p>\n Well, worry not!<\/strong> I’m here to save you from your preposition misery! This time, we’ll cover prepositions used with the days of the week.<\/p>\n First, let’s start with a quick review of the days of the week:<\/p>\n m\u00e5ndag<\/strong> – Monday In that order! The Swedish week, like in most of Europe, starts with Monday, not Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n Also noteworthy is the fact that all days of the week are common gender (-n<\/em>-gender)<\/strong>, following the gender of dag<\/em> “day”, and that they are not inherently capitalized<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So, first of all, each day of the week can be used as an ordinary noun. For example:<\/p>\n Fredag<\/strong> \u00e4r den b\u00e4sta dagen i veckan.<\/em> – Friday<\/strong> is the best day of the week.<\/p>\n If you want to talk about your plans for this Friday<\/strong> or “on Friday”<\/strong>, use the preposition p\u00e5<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n Jag och Elina ska ut och festa p\u00e5 fredag<\/strong>.<\/em> – Elina and I are going out to party on Friday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n What about next Friday<\/strong>? Just like in English, you don’t use a preposition<\/strong>; just\u00a0n\u00e4sta<\/em> “next” and the day of the week:<\/p>\n Vi ska upp till \u00d6rnsk\u00f6ldsvik n\u00e4sta fredag<\/strong>.<\/em> – We’re going up to \u00d6rnsk\u00f6ldsvik next Friday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now to the past. How do we talk about last Friday<\/strong>? Unlike in English, we don’t say * Min sv\u00e4rmor lagade middag till oss i fredags<\/strong>.<\/em> – My mother-in-law made dinner for us last Friday (this past Friday)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The formula for last Friday<\/strong> is this: i<\/strong><\/em> + [day of the <\/strong>week]+<\/strong>-s<\/strong><\/em> \u2192 i m\u00e5ndags<\/em>, i onsdags<\/em>, etc.<\/p>\n Next, if you want to say the Friday before last<\/strong>, you can say f\u00f6rra fredagen<\/em><\/strong>. Note that fredagen<\/span><\/em> is in definite form – i.e., “the Friday”:<\/p>\n Petter hade sin f\u00f6rsta konsert f\u00f6rra fredagen<\/strong>.<\/em> – Petter had his first concert the Friday before last<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Finally, if you’re talking about a week somewhere in the distant past or distant future<\/strong>, you say p\u00e5 fredagen<\/em><\/strong> “on the Friday”<\/strong>. Take a look:<\/p>\n Jag \u00e5kte till Malm\u00f6 en vecka f\u00f6rra \u00e5ret. P\u00e5 onsdagen<\/strong> s\u00e5g jag Turning Torso, och p\u00e5 torsdagen <\/strong>\u00e5t jag sk\u00e5nsk \u00e4ggakaka.<\/em> <\/p>\n Hope you’ve found this post helpful! Now get practicing. \ud83d\ude09 And don’t forget to check out our other posts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prepositions are a pain. When I first started learning Swedish, I found Swedish prepositions so frustrating, because they often didn’t always match the English ones exactly. Or the Spanish ones. Or the German ones. Well, worry not! I’m here to save you from your preposition misery! This time, we’ll cover prepositions used with the…<\/p>\n
\ntisdag<\/strong> – Tuesday
\nonsdag<\/strong> – Wednesday
\ntorsdag<\/strong> – Thursday
\nfredag<\/strong> – Friday
\nl\u00f6rdag<\/strong> – Saturday
\ns\u00f6ndag<\/strong> – Sunday<\/p>\nsista fredag<\/em><\/s> “last Friday”; the Swedes say “in Friday’s”<\/strong>. It may sound weird to non-Swedes, but in Swedish it’s totally normal:<\/p>\n
\nI went to Malm\u00f6 for a week last year. On the Wednesday<\/strong> I saw Turning Torso (see the image above), and on the Thursday <\/strong>I ate Scanian egg cake.<\/p>\n