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Money is a standard topic of conversation in any language. After all, wherever you are, you have to be able to buy groceries, fika<\/em>, and that bottle of wine from Systembolaget for dinner at your friends’.<\/p>\n (If you don’t know, Systembolaget is the (only) liquor store in Sweden<\/a>.)<\/p>\n The basic Swedish word for money is pengar<\/em><\/strong>. Pengar<\/em> is a plural noun, which means that you have to make sure your any adjectives you use with the word are also declined in plural; for example, l\u00e4tta pengar<\/em> “easy money”. The definite form “the money” is pengarna<\/em>.<\/p>\n The main currency of Sweden, as you probably know as a learner of Swedish, is the krona<\/em><\/strong>. En krona<\/em> is one “crown”, as it translates into English; fem kronor<\/em> is five “crowns”. Colloquially, many Swedes talk about amounts of money with the more vulgar term sp\u00e4nn<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. You might hear a friend or colleague talking about how they got the latest album from Avicii for only\u00a0hundra sp\u00e4nn<\/em> – 100 SEK. Sp\u00e4nn<\/em> is generally only used in plural.<\/p>\n Charities and other institutions that take donations (often because they survive on these donations) might ask you to sk\u00e4nka en slant<\/strong><\/em> – to give a small amount of money<\/strong>. (Sk\u00e4nka<\/em> is a word meaning “give” only in the context of giving to a good cause, charity, etc.) In this case, en slant<\/em> indicates a modest way of asking for money. En slant<\/em> is also used in examples like this:<\/p>\n Fantastisk mat f\u00f6r en billig slant<\/strong>!<\/em> – Fantastic food for a modest price<\/strong>!<\/p>\n Billig<\/em><\/strong> means “cheap”. Its opposite is dyr<\/strong><\/em>, “expensive”. These are adjectives – don’t forget to decline them when you use them! Billig<\/em> becomes billigt<\/em> in neuter and billiga<\/em> in plural. Likewise,\u00a0dyr<\/em> becomes\u00a0dyrt<\/em> and\u00a0dyra<\/em>, respectively. When the noun is in definite form (i.e. den dyra tr\u00f6jan<\/em> “the expensive shirt”), the form is always ends in\u00a0-a<\/em> as billiga<\/em> and dyra<\/em>, respectively.<\/p>\n
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