Let’s Learn Swedish: Sentences
using the vocab and grammar from past lessons, try to write these in Sweden in an ask to me and i’ll tell you if you are correct, or i’ll correct any errors ! <3
Hey, nice to meet you. I’m _______.
My friend is cooking food for us today.
The women speak Swedish to me.
The dog is eating his (own) food.
The people are swimming in the ocean.
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vocab note:
På can be used as “on” but also “to”. Till would be used when it’s directional like going TO somewhere.
an ocean - ett hav
Let’s Learn Swedish: Foods
mat - food
att laga mat - to cook food
förrätt - appetizer, first course
huvudrätt - main course
öknen - desert
kött - meat
fisk - fish
smörgås - sandwich
frukt - fruit
grönsak - vegetable
What.. what is this?? AP exams are over????? I CAN START UPDATING A BIT MORE REGULARLY????? :D HUZZAH!
Let’s Learn Swedish: Time pt. 3
en sekund - a second
sextio sekundar - sixty seconds
en minut - a minute
sextio minuter - seventy minutes
en timme - an hour
tjugofyra timmar - twenty four hours
en dag - a day
sju dagar - seven days
en vecka - a week
fyra veckor - four weeks
en månad - a month
tolv månader - twelve months
en år - a year
etthundra år - a hundred years
Let’s Learn Swedish: Numbers pt. 2
elva - eleven
tolv - twelve
tretton - thirteen
fyrton - fourteen
femton - fifteen
sexton - sixteen
sjutton - seventeen
artton - eighteen
nittion -nineteen
tjugo - twenty
tjugoen - twenty one
tjugotvå - twenty two
trettio - thirty
trettioen - thirty one
trettiotvå - thirty two
fyttio - fourty
femtio - fifty
sextio - sixty
sjuttio - seventy
åttio - eighty
nittio - ninety
hundra - hundred
As you see for twenty and thirty, to make thirty two, three, four, you just do
trettio + number (without spaces)
this goes for all of them, but you do not pronounce the -o in trettioen, etc.
ALSO, ALL En’s can be Ett’s if what they refer to is neuter
Let’s Learn Swedish: Hen
Just FYI, i’ve taught you guys han and hon, the male and female pronoun, but the Swedish LGBT community decided to create a gender-neutral pronoun, Hen
Originally Det was used to describe someone without being gender-specific but this made many upset because Det is used to describe something inanimate or inhuman. So the pronoun Hen has been created to show gender-neutrality while still referring to a person.
Hen - Subjective/Nominative form
Hens - Possession/Genitive form
Henom - Objective/Accusative form
sorry for lack of lessons, APs are upon us and I will not have much time till June to get lessons out again but just a quick note.
I did a lesson quickly on the genitive case for Swedish, where you really just add an “-s” to a word
a good way to remember the possessive pronoun Hans/Hennes, it’s just
Han (subjective form/Nominative) + -s = hans (his)
Henne (objective form/Accusative) + -s = Hennes, Her/Hers
and I hope I don’t confuse anyone with the way I describe words now
I felt like, to describe a word and how it’s used, I find it easiest to explain it like I learned it in Latin, using the noun cases and verb tenses. But of course not everyone takes latin so I decided that when explaining if a form of the word is used as the subject, in Swedish it’s called the Subjective form. In Latin, it’s the nominative case.
So you will me see me do what i’m doing above to explain what I mean. I hope this doesn’t confuse anyone. and if anyone has any questions, PLEASE ASK ME! D:
I will also tag all “important”/non-lesson posts as Letslearnswedish
and all lessons as Swedish lessons
Let’s Learn Swedish: Hans/Hennes vs. Sin
In swedish, words and their pronouns agree to a strict point.. Try to follow. I’ve dreaded this one a bit
Hans - his
Hennes - hers
Deras - theirs
Henrik har en bok - Henrik has a book
Marcus läser hans bok - Marcus is reading his book (“hans, his” referring to Henrik’s book)
Just like in the verb Har på mig - Wear, there is a pronoun that must agree with the subject. The reason why is because Har på mig translates to Have on me (or you or him)
jag har på mig en rock - I have on me a coat or I’m wearing a coat
Du har på dig en skjorta - You have on you a shirt or You’re wearing a shirt
Similarly, when referring to a possession of your own or in 3rd person, that person’s own, you use min, din, or sin
jag läser min bok - I’m reading my book
Han äter sitt äpple - he is eating his (own) apple
Han äter hans äpple - He is eating his apple (referring to someone else, to whom the apple belongs)
Let’s Learn Swedish: Genitives!
Who does not love Genitives?!
Swedish still clings to a few cases that need to be declined
This will be a quick list of things to do and not do with the Genitive case (Possession)
2 ways to do a possessive statement
- Sweden’s king
- the king of Sweden
both are the same, but made in a different way.
In Swedish, adding an -s to the end of a word makes it possessive as an -’s does in english. Sooo..
- Sveriges kung
- Kungen på Sverige
however the more common way is the -s ending.
IF the name or word ends with an -s, you do not add another one, you just add an -’ to the end.
Det här är Nils’ hus - This is Nils’ house
Det här är Sarahs hus - This is Sarah’s house
Another genitive use is to use the preposition Av, though this denotes a sense of origin or creation
ringen är av guld - the ring is (made) of gold
School is coming to a close and finals will be coming up.
there will be very few updates BUT once the year ends there will be many more
:DDDD
