{"id":7478,"date":"2016-08-24T16:07:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=7478"},"modified":"2016-08-19T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:02:37","slug":"greetings-swede-lings-five-posts-on-swedish-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/greetings-swede-lings-five-posts-on-swedish-greetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings, Swede-lings: Five Posts on Swedish Greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We\u2019re reaching back into the vault here on the Transparent Swedish blog to bring you five different posts on greeting someone in Swedish. Below you\u2019ll find the basics, like saying \u201chello\u201d and \u201chej\u201d to people you see. You\u2019ll learn some phrases to help you meet new people in Sweden. You\u2019ll even learn how to address a letter. Of course, it isn\u2019t all about the \u201chej,\u201d so below we\u2019ve included a post about saying \u201cgood-bye\u201d as well.<\/p>\n

So you have an idea as to what you\u2019re getting yourself into, we\u2019ve included a short quote from each post below. Just click on the links and you\u2019ll be ready to greet any Swede you happen to meet!<\/p>\n

Meeting Someone New \u2013 in Swedish<\/a><\/h2>\n

\u201cOne thing that is useful is how to start a conversation with someone you just met. That\u2019s one of the beauties of traveling. New places, new people, new food, new experiences. But if you\u2019re going to be meeting all of these new people, you might as well have something to say to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saying \u201chello\u201d in Swedish<\/a><\/h2>\n

\u201cThere are tons of ways of saying \u2018hi\u2019 in Swedish. Some are for more formal situations but in general most of them are used just for friends or acquaintances. This blog post will gather as many ways of saying hello to somebody as possible into one place for you and try to give you an idea of when to use them. Most of these words however just mean the same thing meaning that it is up to you to choose and use the ones you like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hej Hej!<\/a><\/h2>\n

\u201cEverywhere you go in Sweden, people \u2018hej\u2019 at you. If you don\u2019t know that \u2018hej\u2019 means \u2018hello\u2019 in Swedish, you might be slightly confused as to why everybody is trying to get your attention. Because that\u2019s what we use \u2018hey\u2019 for in English, among many other things, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

Bye Bye Bye. In Swedish.<\/a><\/h2>\n

\u201cNSYNC made \u2018Bye Bye Bye\u2019 popular back in 2000 with a little help from some Swedish writers and producers. But Justin Timberlake has yet to master the Swedish language, so \u2018Bye Bye Bye\u2019 stayed English. But what if you wanted to say bye, bye, bye, in Swedish? Or at least goodbye? There are plenty of ways to say goodbye to someone in Swedish. Some nice and polite, others less so. We\u2019ll stick to the more polite ones in this post.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hej K\u00e4ra Peter!<\/a><\/h2>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t write that many letters in Swedish. In fact, I don\u2019t write that many letters in whatever language \u2013 I\u2019m probably the world\u2019s worst correspondent, as my friends no doubt can tell you. So, in order to properly answer Peter\u2019s question I had to dig deep into my memory banks.<\/p>\n

Of course, the most common way of starting a letter is simply by writing \u201chej!\u201d but that does get old after a while.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

We\u2019re reaching back into the vault here on the Transparent Swedish blog to bring you five different posts on greeting someone in Swedish. Below you\u2019ll find the basics, like saying \u201chello\u201d and \u201chej\u201d to people you see. You\u2019ll learn some phrases to help you meet new people in Sweden. You\u2019ll even learn how to address…<\/p>\n

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