{"id":9264,"date":"2021-05-21T02:08:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T02:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=9264"},"modified":"2021-05-21T02:08:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T02:08:13","slug":"swedish-verb-roulette-featuring-201-swedish-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/swedish-verb-roulette-featuring-201-swedish-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Verb Roulette Featuring “201 Swedish Verbs”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: C. Bowen<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s this super amazing book… I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve heard of it, but it\u2019s called \u2018201 Swedish Verbs\u2019 and it\u2019s really great!\u201d Numerous times have these left the peppy lips of my Swedish students. And if you\u2019ve done any searching for Swedish reference material, you\u2019ve most definitely seen this title – many of you probably even own it. It\u2019s by Richard P. Auletta, originally published in 1975, and today, we\u2019re going to use it to play some \u201cSwedish verb roulette.\u201d <\/span>
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\n<\/span>201 Swedish Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses<\/span><\/a> was published in 1975 by Barron\u2019s Educational Material Series, Inc., and continues to be a solid companion for Swedish learners. Written by Richard P. Auletta, a former foreign language and linguistics professor at Long Island University, and edited by Leif Sj\u00f6berg, Germanic and Scandinavian Studies professor at State University of New York, this reference material covers Swedish verbs with English translations and several of their forms, including both modern and more archaic conjugations.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>In the book\u2019s foreword, Auletta mentions Swedish as a language \u201cin a state of transition.\u201d He credits World War II for accelerating shifts in the language, particularly in the verb system. For example, the Swedish helping verb skall<\/em> was almost entirely eliminated from the colloquial speech:
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\n<\/span> Jag skall baka \u2192 Jag ska baka. <\/em>English:\u00a0I shall bake.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, post-war Swedish verbs transitioned into using one form, regardless of singular or plural pronouns. Auletta also mentions the use of \u201cdu\u201d in a more widespread fashion, as Swedes stopped addressing folks with their formal titles and last names. Each of the 201 verbs included in the book echo that shift. There are more conjugations of each verb than you would need in modern Swedish, but it\u2019s helpful when reading or listening to older Swedish texts.\u00a0<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Okej!<\/em> Let\u2019s play what I’m called “Swedish verb roulette.” What is it, you say? I paged through the book, stopping at 7 random pages. Each page details 1 verb, and those 7 verbs in total are listed below. Some of them you will know well, but some of them are a bit more tricky to conjugate. First I\u2019ll include the infinitive form, English translation, and its verb group. In the chart below is imperative, present, past, and present perfect, as well as an example sentence. I\u2019ve included a photo from the text for our first verb so you can see the complexity of the breakdown outlined in the book:
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Photo: 201 Swedish Verbs, page 179, verb tv\u00e4tta. Auletta, Richard P.<\/p><\/div>\n

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1.<\/span> att tv\u00e4tta<\/b> \u2192 to wash<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>verb group 1 <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
imperative\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npresent\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npast\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npresent perfect<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tv\u00e4tta!\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n tv\u00e4ttar\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\ntv\u00e4ttade\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nhar tv\u00e4ttat<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wash!<\/span><\/td>\nwash\/washes<\/span><\/td>\nwashed\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nhave washed<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\n<\/span>Har du tv\u00e4ttat din fotbollstr\u00f6ja?<\/span><\/i>\u00a0 Have you washed your soccer (football) jersey? <\/span>
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\n<\/span>2. <\/span>att hinna<\/b> \u2192 to have time \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 verb group 4<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
imperative\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npresent\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npast\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npresent perfect<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hinn!<\/span><\/td>\nhinner\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nhann<\/span><\/td>\nhar hunnit<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Have time!<\/span><\/td>\nhave\/has time<\/span><\/td>\nhad time<\/span><\/td>\nhave had time<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\n*this one is a little funny because there\u2019s not a great 1-word verb in English for <\/span>hinner<\/span><\/i>
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\n<\/span>F\u00f6rl\u00e5t Anna, jag hann inte h\u00e4mta din bok fr\u00e5n biblioteket. <\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>Sorry Anna, I did not have time to pick up your book from the library.
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\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>3. <\/span>att bita<\/b> \u2192 to bite or chew\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span> verb group 4<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
imperative\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npresent\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npast\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npresent perfect<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bit!\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nbiter\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nbet\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nhar bitit<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bite!<\/span><\/td>\nbite\/s<\/span><\/td>\nbit\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nhave bitten<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Vad gjorde mannen innan hunden bet honom?<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>What did the man do before the dog bit him?<\/span><\/p>\n

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4.\u00a0 att sv\u00e4lta<\/b> \u2192 to starve, intransitive\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> verb group 4<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
imperative\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npresent\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npast\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npresent perfect<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sv\u00e4lt!<\/span><\/td>\nsv\u00e4lter\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nsvalt<\/span><\/td>\nhar svultit<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Starve!<\/span><\/td>\nstarve<\/span><\/td>\nstarved<\/span><\/td>\nhave starved<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Om man f\u00e5r f\u00f6r lite mat, d\u00e5 kan man sv\u00e4lta. <\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>If one gets too little food, then one can starve.<\/span><\/p>\n

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5. att str\u00e4cka \u2192 <\/b>to stretch\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span> verb group 2b<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
imperative\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npresent\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npast\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npresent perfect<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Str\u00e4ck!<\/span><\/td>\nstr\u00e4cker\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nstr\u00e4ckte<\/span><\/td>\nhar str\u00e4ckt<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stretch!<\/span><\/td>\nstretch\/es<\/span><\/td>\nstretched<\/span><\/td>\nhave stretched<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\n<\/span><\/i>Alperna str\u00e4cker sig* fr\u00e5n Italien till Tyskland. <\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>The Alps stretch from Italy to Germany.
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\n<\/span>*I used the reflexive form <\/span>str\u00e4cker sig<\/span><\/i>, but the conjugations are the same for this verb, too!<\/span><\/p>\n

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6. att gripa<\/b> \u2192 to grip, to capture\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>verb group 4<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
imperative\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npresent\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npast\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npresent perfect<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grip!<\/span><\/td>\ngriper\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\ngrep<\/span><\/td>\nhar gripit<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grip!<\/span><\/td>\ncapture\/s<\/span><\/td>\ncaptured<\/span><\/td>\nhave captured<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

De grep gruppen som var misst\u00e4nkt f\u00f6r bombhotet.<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span><\/i>They captured the group that was suspected of the bomb threat.<\/p>\n

<\/span>7. att vrida<\/b> \u2192 to turn, twist<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 verb group 4<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
imperative\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npresent\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npast\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\npresent perfect<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vrid!<\/span><\/td>\nvrider\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nvred\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nhar vridit<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Twist!<\/span><\/td>\ntwist\/s<\/span><\/td>\ntwisted<\/span><\/td>\nhave twisted<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nSo, who else owns this book? If you love verbs and grammar like I do, definitely pick up a copy. It’s widely available with most online book retailers. Bonus points go to anyone who writes an example sentence in the comments, go!
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<\/span>Sources:<\/strong>
\nAuletta, Richard P. (1975). <\/span>201 Swedish Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses<\/span><\/a> (L. Sj\u00f6berg, Ed.).\u00a0 Barron\u2019s Educational Material Series, Inc. Woodbury, New York.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

\u201cThere\u2019s this super amazing book… I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve heard of it, but it\u2019s called \u2018201 Swedish Verbs\u2019 and it\u2019s really great!\u201d Numerous times have these left the peppy lips of my Swedish students. And if you\u2019ve done any searching for Swedish reference material, you\u2019ve most definitely seen this title – many of you…<\/p>\n

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