#swedish grammar

[er-cryptid]

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[solkatts-svenska]

Skillnaden mellan måsta, skola och böra

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Positive

Man måste — one must/has to:

Vi måste försvara forskningens frihet!

Man ska(ll) — one should/ought to:

Barn ska ses men inte höras.

Man bör — one should:

Jag bör kanske skaffa en advokat.

Negative

Man måste inte — one doesn’t have to:

Du måste inte om du inte vill.

Man skall inte — one mustn’t:

Vi skall inte göra honom besviken.

Man bör inte — one shouldn’t:

Vi bör inte vilseledas av den till synes stora tillgången i vissa gynnade delar av världen.

[lokh]

it turns out even a rudimentary understanding of another language is enough to read something technical in your field

[chottobenkyou]

Hey!

Who's learning Spanish / Swedish / Dutch?

¿Quién está aprendiendo español / sueco / holandés?

[elnotwoods]

me, studying korean for a year and a half now: can barely speak it

me, watching young royal 4 times in a row: can speak casual everyday swedish

[cin-cant-donate-blood]

Remember! It is not the carrot that is feminine, but the word "carrot"! The reference is gendered, not the referent.

In Spanish, la casa is feminine, and el domicilio is masculine, even if you are referring to the same house!

In Swedish, ett svin is neuter gender, while en gris is common gender, even if you are referring to one and the same pig.

This is even true for pronouns. Any language that has gendered pronouns that might depend on grammatical gender (the gender of the word) rather than natural gender (the perceived gender of the thing itself) will have those pronouns determined by the last time the thing was referred to by a noun.

having to internalize the gender binary again so I can learn a new Romance language

[er-cryptid]

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[industrialgender]

been duolingo-ing again for like a month and tbh that app sucks major ass in terms of grammar. im almost done w the swedish course and it didnt even try to teach me any grammar. like thank god im just revising things i already learned in classes bc i would have no clue how the s passiv works if duolingo was the only thing i used to study.

[sinkingtime]

Ok, so I've studied english, spanish, portuguese, french, japanese, german, latin, greek (ancient) and nahuatl. But I have to say, this is a ridiculously lenient definition of "speaks".

If you want me to communicate, it's just english and spanish, plus arguably portuguese but only by virtue of the famous transparency between those two.

And then I can read fiction in french and japanese, but slowly and with frequent dictionary pauses. Could presumably do the same for the others, with varying levels of effort, but I haven't really tested it since school.

how many languages do you speak?

(i’m counting languages where you took one class for a semester if you retained any of it congrats you are a little multilingual)

(reblog for bigger sample size!)

[basicbats]

oh i do noooot like this 💀

[harishsharma]

Types of saying I Love you

How to say I love you????

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[svenska-smell]

🇸🇪 lank

att skydda » to protect, to shelter

ett skal » skin, peel; shell

att se » to see

besynnerlig » strange, queer

inuti » within, inside

plötsligt » suddenly

borta » gone

att falla » to fall

mot » against, towards

en mark » ground, earth; grounds

det + -en? Varför?

Practice sentences

Sköldpaddan har det ett skyddande skalet skal.

Plötsligt sköldpaddan sa sag en besynnerlig kanin.

Plötsligt han var borta inuti honom skalet hans skal.

Kaninen stampade mot marken.

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Here's a reddit response [Eliderad] to this question:

Tåget är långt = The train in question is long (general, when it's clear what you're referring to)

Det tåget är långt = That train over there is long (pointing, specifying out of several options)

Det röda tåget är långt = The red train is long (the article is always used when an adjective precedes the noun)

[Article suffixes mixed with det or den]

[lynxvalkyria]

Har aldrig tänkt på det så, men det stämmer ju faktiskt. Och jag tror att många barn skulle vara bättre på svensk grammatik ifall lärarna presenterade det såhär. 😹

[lika2]

As a native Swedish speaker, if there's one thing I've noticed the English language lacks, it's a good translation for the swedish pronoun man

Man refers vaugely to anyone/everyone relevant, and it's really hard to explain or translate to English. To get a better grasp of how to explain the word, I'm using the answer to the question "how is the pronoun man used?" from a Swedish FAQ website ran by the Language Council of Sweden as a source

Man refers to anyone relevant, period. You, me, your neighbour, the president. Everyone. If you just say man, that implies everyone ever, similar to you when not used to refer to the reader/listener. But man can have a qualifier such as "in my family," or "in Greece," in which case it will only refer to the people within the stated group, possibly excluding both you and me

Man is in singular however nouns get a plural conjugate if it's definitely referring to a group of people, and it is gender neutral. The accusative case (like her/him/them) for man is en

I just love how delightfully vauge man is (you can get away with using it in scientific reports!) and my best approximation of a translation would be "people" but it's just... off

[boneless-mika]

Reading about gender in sociolinguistics and I guess I gotta start using a ton of vernacular so scientists won’t think I’m a woman smh

[hopefulpenguincreator]

2024.04.06 Hour 13.5 🇸🇪 - Coffee Break Swedish

1.04 Notes:

long vowels and swedish - pretend there are two of the vowels written there

if you start part of a sentence with a time or place (e.g. "just nu"), then the verb and subject of sentence need to switch places

Göteborg = Gothenburg = (the one town pronounced differently in english)

den/det = it (and use "det" for the dummy "it")

de (pronounced "dom") = they

ni = you plural

du = thou, dig = you; du-reformen in 1960s

Helsingfors (rs ≈"sh") = Helsinki

1.05 Notes:

Det här är ... min vän, min pojkvän, min särbo

särbo / sambo

flycka + van = flyckvän / pojke + vän = pojkvän

en (common) vs. ett (neuter); en is used 75-80% of the time.

ett barn, mitt barn

mitt -> notice that double t makes the i a short vowel; if it were mit then i vowel would be long (mit = "meet")

double consonant at the end shortens the vowel

jag ser fram i mot det = i look forward to it

jag med = me too

1.06 Notes:

det låter bra / det låter utmärkt

ett syscon / mitt syscon / jag har inte syscon.

fredagsmys: Friday cozy time - tv och snacks, e.g. idål och läsk

att mysa = to cuddle

lordagsgodis: Sweets saturday

when it comes to family, most plurals are irregular: en bror, två bröder / en syster, två systrar / en son två söner / en dotter, två döttrar

very often "ett" plural nouns don't change form: ett barn, jag har två barn / ett syscon, jag har tre syscon

"y" pronunciation tip = "ee" in sheep with rounded lips

en förälder / mina föräldrar = a parent / my parents

mina = for all (mitt or min) plurals

noll (0), ett, två, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, åtta, nio ("nia), tio ("tia")

+0.5hr x 3 & watched 2 episodes of Young Royals last night + last episode idag