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I really wish the Swedish Duolingo had grammar blurbs for every circle like they do for Spanish. I'm halfway through the course and feel like I sort of got my bearings now but it was frustrating at first 😅
It sounds super good from the English standpoint. Also, I’m trying to learn the Swedish. I don’t have your books at this point, but have multiple sources. To me, the most important thing is to understand your sentence structure. Starting there. So I can read, write, listen, and speak it. I do know some words, but I think sentence structure is key. What do you think?
One more comment... maybe it was worth mentioning that there are even adjectives that have different forms for plural and the definite form - Liten, litet, lilla & små ;-)
Gkad you're back. I already missed your lessons. Kan du sägar "ha det bättre" when someone says "Ha det bra" to you? Like in german when thay sometimes answer you back with "machts besser" when you say "machts gut". Tack så mycket!
Översätt nu följande till engelska: En kvinnlig präst; en kvinnligare präst: den kvinnligaste prästen. En manlig präst; en manligare präst; den manligaste prästen. En kvinnlig prästinna; en kvinnligare prästinna; den kvinnligaste prästinnan. En manlig prästinna; en manligare prästinna: den manligaste prästinnan.
One question: What about "frisk". According to Swedish wikitionary friskare and friskast exist. As far as I know frisk means healthy in a sense of "not sick", and should not be used for healthy when you are talking about food or lifestyle cause that would be nyttig. And nyttigare and nyttigast are pretty obvious. Would Swedes rather turn sides around and compare states of sicknesses with sjukare / sjukast?
I mean, either you're sick or you aren't :D But no, you'd definitely use endings with "sjuk". When it comes to frisk, I'd also tend to use endings. Like I said, the rules aren't rules. And these are short words and they tend to get endings instead of mer/mest.
I ran into this sentence on duolingo: > Frankrike är det enda land jag inte har varit i. So under some circumstances the noun needn't be in the definite form?
Adjectives are the most confusing part of Swedish since there is so much redundancy. I love your stuff but it would be helpful if you used the English terms for Swedish grammar. For example, "T words" or "Ett words" are actually called "neuter gender" vs. "En words" are called "common gender" in English books about Swedish grammar. The "definitive form" of a noun is indicated with a "definitive suffix", e.g. "et" or "en", for "huset" or "bilen'. The "indefinite form" of a noun is indicated with an "indefinite article" only, e.g. "en bil" or "ett hus". A "definitive article" AND a "definitive suffix" are applied when the noun has an adjective, "den stora bilen". It has taken me years to get this straight... By the way, they use "are" and "ast" for comparative and superlative adjectives that have less than 3 syllables. Any adjective with more than 3 syllables uses "mer..." or "mest ..." Keep up the good work! It's a fun language to learn!
@@sayitinswedish I mean no disrespect. I am just trying to give you a suggestion to improve your videos. Sometimes it is a bit difficult to follow along with you because you don't always use English grammatical terms to describe the parts of speech in Swedish, e.g. saying "ett words" instead of "neuter gender" or talking about "double definitives", which is a term I have never heard of. So I try to reconcile your explanations with the explanations I see in other Swedish grammar books. As a native English speaker I am not sure I would know all the names for the grammatical concepts that a person who is studying English would know. That is all I meant.
@@BoardroomBuddha it sounded like you explained the grammar back to me. When I make my videos I make a choice how I want to teach. What we call the different genders does not matter at all and lots of material talk about en and ett words instead to make things easier. I'm well aware of the more academic terms. When I went to school we even had "reale". The double definite form is something I explained thoroughly in the video. I'm sorry it was hard to follow but I can't help that that's the term we use. And it makes sense. I said that we generally use an ending (suffix) but also need an article. I showed an example on screen. If you need further help you can Google these terms. You will 100% find something to read. I don't just make stuff up. Hope this helps.
I'm lost. Why "Den stora bilen" and not "den stor bilen" ? Isn't "stora" a plural ? Like in "mina barn" ? So why do we put "en" at the end, as "en" is a singular "the" ??? I'm lost, I need help 😂 Does "Den stora bilen" mean "The big car" or "the big cars" ?
Alright! I'll try to explain it again. - "Stora" is the form used for BOTH the definite singular form AND plural. Den stora bilen (the big car), stora bilar (big cars), de stora bilarna (the big cars) - The -en suffix for the definite form was used back in old Norse as well, it derives from the word "hin" that meant "this". The double definite, using both an article and an ending, existed even back then, so it's just how it is. There is no "why", you just need to learn it.
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How to say Sjögren? Turkish like this: Fögren ? Thnx
Joakim: you have to think
Me: dear God no
The book has been a big help with the frequent Duolingo WTF moments.
Thank you so much for getting it. I'm so happy you found it useful.
I really wish the Swedish Duolingo had grammar blurbs for every circle like they do for Spanish. I'm halfway through the course and feel like I sort of got my bearings now but it was frustrating at first 😅
11:13 jokes on you, I used to study German in high school (which was a year ago lol), nothing can frighten me
Tack så mycket för dina lektioner. De är så hjälpsamma🤗
Tack själv! Btw, man säger bara "hjälpsam" om människor. Mina lektioner är "lärorika" och det jag lär ut är "nyttigt" eller "användbart".
Tack Joakim!!! 😊😊😊
Tack Amber!!!!!!!
"At least its not german" WOAH SIR YOU ARE RIGHT BUT WOAH
Very helpful. Thanks a lot!
Very helpful, thanks!
Tack 👏
Great lesson. Tack så mycket. Also, i love your name. Vara välsignad
My name?
Yes. Joakim. Most excellent name for a son I was thinking.
@@anthonytrevino341 it's alright 😂
It sounds super good from the English standpoint. Also, I’m trying to learn the Swedish. I don’t have your books at this point, but have multiple sources. To me, the most important thing is to understand your sentence structure. Starting there. So I can read, write, listen, and speak it. I do know some words, but I think sentence structure is key. What do you think?
@@anthonytrevino341 it sounds like "you wack him"
One more comment... maybe it was worth mentioning that there are even adjectives that have different forms for plural and the definite form - Liten, litet, lilla & små ;-)
True, but I have a whole video about that particular one!
Спасибо, мужик, это реально очень полезный ролик))
Gkad you're back. I already missed your lessons. Kan du sägar "ha det bättre" when someone says "Ha det bra" to you? Like in german when thay sometimes answer you back with "machts besser" when you say "machts gut". Tack så mycket!
I guess you could do that if you feel witty. But it's not an established saying in Swedish, like in German.
Did you create these books?
But! At least it's not German! HAHAHA I'm German and you're definitely right, we do an annoying amount of conjugations/whatever they are 😂😂
For nouns and adjectives you call it a “declension”! Verbs conjugate, nouns declense :D
Översätt nu följande till engelska:
En kvinnlig präst; en kvinnligare präst: den kvinnligaste prästen.
En manlig präst; en manligare präst; den manligaste prästen.
En kvinnlig prästinna; en kvinnligare prästinna; den kvinnligaste prästinnan.
En manlig prästinna; en manligare prästinna: den manligaste prästinnan.
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One question: What about "frisk". According to Swedish wikitionary friskare and friskast exist.
As far as I know frisk means healthy in a sense of "not sick", and should not be used for healthy when you are talking about food or lifestyle cause that would be nyttig. And nyttigare and nyttigast are pretty obvious.
Would Swedes rather turn sides around and compare states of sicknesses with sjukare / sjukast?
I mean, either you're sick or you aren't :D But no, you'd definitely use endings with "sjuk". When it comes to frisk, I'd also tend to use endings. Like I said, the rules aren't rules. And these are short words and they tend to get endings instead of mer/mest.
Thanks. BTW There is no double definite in danish :) men det svenska språket är trevligast :)
Yeah, the Danes are interesting that way! One would think Danish would be closer to Swedish but then you get something like this!
We should implement it into Swedish and Norwegian..... or not? ;-)
This was the first grammatical oddity I encountered while learning swedish. 🙂
@@lubomirvrana2158 or just remove the article :)
I ran into this sentence on duolingo:
> Frankrike är det enda land jag inte har varit i.
So under some circumstances the noun needn't be in the definite form?
@@lubomirvrana2158 det is a determinstive pronoun here. It's followed by a relative clause. It's written language/a bit more formal.
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Adjectives are the most confusing part of Swedish since there is so much redundancy. I love your stuff but it would be helpful if you used the English terms for Swedish grammar. For example, "T words" or "Ett words" are actually called "neuter gender" vs. "En words" are called "common gender" in English books about Swedish grammar. The "definitive form" of a noun is indicated with a "definitive suffix", e.g. "et" or "en", for "huset" or "bilen'. The "indefinite form" of a noun is indicated with an "indefinite article" only, e.g. "en bil" or "ett hus". A "definitive article" AND a "definitive suffix" are applied when the noun has an adjective, "den stora bilen". It has taken me years to get this straight...
By the way, they use "are" and "ast" for comparative and superlative adjectives that have less than 3 syllables. Any adjective with more than 3 syllables uses "mer..." or "mest ..."
Keep up the good work! It's a fun language to learn!
I really don't know why you are explain Swedish grammar back to me.
@@sayitinswedish I mean no disrespect. I am just trying to give you a suggestion to improve your videos. Sometimes it is a bit difficult to follow along with you because you don't always use English grammatical terms to describe the parts of speech in Swedish, e.g. saying "ett words" instead of "neuter gender" or talking about "double definitives", which is a term I have never heard of. So I try to reconcile your explanations with the explanations I see in other Swedish grammar books. As a native English speaker I am not sure I would know all the names for the grammatical concepts that a person who is studying English would know. That is all I meant.
@@BoardroomBuddha it sounded like you explained the grammar back to me. When I make my videos I make a choice how I want to teach. What we call the different genders does not matter at all and lots of material talk about en and ett words instead to make things easier. I'm well aware of the more academic terms. When I went to school we even had "reale".
The double definite form is something I explained thoroughly in the video. I'm sorry it was hard to follow but I can't help that that's the term we use. And it makes sense. I said that we generally use an ending (suffix) but also need an article. I showed an example on screen.
If you need further help you can Google these terms. You will 100% find something to read. I don't just make stuff up.
Hope this helps.
@@sayitinswedish I was just trying offer feedback as a student...
@@BoardroomBuddha that didn't sound like feedback, but I believe you. No problem. Thank you.
I'm lost.
Why "Den stora bilen" and not "den stor bilen" ? Isn't "stora" a plural ? Like in "mina barn" ? So why do we put "en" at the end, as "en" is a singular "the" ???
I'm lost, I need help 😂
Does "Den stora bilen" mean "The big car" or "the big cars" ?
Alright! I'll try to explain it again.
- "Stora" is the form used for BOTH the definite singular form AND plural.
Den stora bilen (the big car), stora bilar (big cars), de stora bilarna (the big cars)
- The -en suffix for the definite form was used back in old Norse as well, it derives from the word "hin" that meant "this". The double definite, using both an article and an ending, existed even back then, so it's just how it is. There is no "why", you just need to learn it.
@@sayitinswedish Okay ! Thank you very much for taking time to explain it again for me. I understand now... I think 🙂 Tack så mycket !
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Ha. Ha.
At least it's not German 😂😂
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