COLORS in Swedish (färger på svenska) - How to use them with plural, en and ett
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Tjena! Swedish learner here.
You might have noticed that, except for colors like "rosa" or "lila" (which seem like irregular adjectives), you always add an -a at the end when the noun is plural or definite.
But what about -t?
- Why blå and grå turn into blått and grått with double t?
- Why svart stays the same?
- Why röd turns into rött, transforming the d into a t?
Well, I found a pattern when adding -t. However, I'm a beginner, so TAKE THIS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT: maybe it's not a real rule.
The pattern is:
"Add final t's until the word ends with 2 consonants"
If we follow this pattern:
- blå has 0 final consonants --> add 2 t's to end with double consonant --> we get blått
- grå has 0 final consonants --> add 2 t's to end with double consonant --> we get grått
- grön has 1 final consonant (n) --> add 1 t to end with double consonant --> we get grönt
- gul has 1 final consonant (l) --> add 1 t to end with double consonant --> we get gult
- vit has 1 final consonant (t) --> add 1 t to end with double consonant --> we get vitt
- brun has 1 final consonant (n) --> add 1 t to end with double consonant --> we get brunt
- röd has 1 final consonant (d) --> add 1 t to end with double consonant --> we get rödt**
- svart has 2 final consonants (rt) --> actually, don't add t's, it already ends with double consonant --> we get svart
**Well, no, actually it's rött, but it makes sense! On a technical note, "d" and "t" are very similar sounds, but "d" is a voiced consonant (your vocal chords vibrate when you pronounce "d"), whereas "t" is a voiceless consonant (they don't vibrate). Try it: put your hand on your throat and notice how it vibrates when you say "d", but it doesn't when you say "t". Well... when a voiced and a voiceless consonant meet, the voiced consonant "turns off", it becomes voiceless (it's called "assimilation", for the curious ones). The voiced consonant (d) turns into its voiceless version (also a t), so "rödt" sounds like "rött". In this case we actually write it as "rött" too. I don't know when exactly this happens ("dt" being written as "tt"), because I've seen words written with "dt" such as "Lindstedt" (Swedish lastname?), like in "Lindstedtsvägen" (Lindstedt's Road). If someone can explain I would be very grateful.
You might have noticed this, but a side effect is that final long vowels become short: blå, grå, grön, vit, brun and röd have a long vowel. But when we add t's they become short vowels: blått, grått, grönt, vitt, brunt and rött all have short vowels instead.
This is because the accent (previously on the vowel) is now transferred onto the double consonant.
Svart, on the other hand, already ended with a double consonant and already had a short a because of it, so nothing happens to it.
If any native Swedish speaker (or in general anyone with sufficient experience with Swedish) could confirm or correct this, I'd would be grateful.
Meanwhile, I hope that you all like this piece of information :D
great video, I've been studying with them. Thanks so much
Happy to hear that it helped!
In italian "essere al verde" (being green) means to be broke.
And you can be :
Giallo d'invidia (yellow for envy)
Nero/verde di rabbia (black or green for anger);
Rosso di vergogna (red for shame)
Bianco di paura (white for scare)
Another great video, tack så jättemycket for your work
Tack 🌹🌺🌷
Jag har gröna ögon. 😁
Today's memes were too funny to control laughter 🤣
Aula sensacional! Muitíssima obrigada.
Portuguesa a aprender sueco? 😊
Thanks god my native language is portuguese, which is equally as complex as swedish... We have the same patterns when it comes to singular and plural, and so on.
Quem diria, outro lusófono por aqui. Tu é nativo de que país? Sou brasileiro, lá do sul.
@@ErickAJobim Verdade kkkk eu sou brasileiro também, do Ceará, nordeste
Excellent 🎉
Love it, thanks
Thank you very much teacher❤
Lingon är röda, älgen är blå
Du gillar brännvin, fyfan då är vi två
Laxеn är silver, Norrland är guld
Du är en keeper, när jag blir för full
Some lyrics always help to learn…. 😅
Tack :)
Orange in plural is Oranga, as I saw it once in the lyrics of the song Sjukhus by the band Kent?
Yes, some people say Oranga and some just say orange in plural. Both works. Kent is a great band by the way! Check out this video where we talk a bit about them th-cam.com/video/6DumOZUr8TU/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=FunSwedish
some phrases are just crazy how they come about ^^ in Spanish there is "me cago en la leche"- "I shit in the milk" and it means you're disappointed!
also your videos are so entertaining (I love the editing) and motivating me to learn and practice my Swedish, I also appreciate how you go over how to pronounce things as I feel like im improving at getting the sounds more accurately!
Sí, lo conozco (lo oía mucho cuando vivía en España). Suena muy divertido "me cago en la leche". Me alegro mucho saber que te guste nuestros videos y que estes aprenendo con ellos
Sometimes... sounds so.. complicated 😊
❤❤❤🎉
Maroon, Olives please
The fun thing is "rött vin," when merged into one word may become "rödvin".
😂🎉❤👍🙏 thank you
How can I identify en and et words
Any one can help me please 🙏
😂🎉🎉
Don't mix Bruna ögon and Brun öga ;)
Haha!😂
I didn't get the joke, could you explain it please?
@@stormmaster108 In Sweden we call the asshole for brunöga. But not normally only like a in a joke or if you are rude.
@@stormmaster108 Bruna ögon = Brown eyes (The regular kind.) Brunöga = Brown-eye, as in, well, rectum "eye". Only used in a jokey manner when someone doesn't want to mention the real thing. Beating around the bush makes it sound funny instead. As you've probably guessed it's not something we commonly walk around saying. Mostly used by young men among friends if necessary in story telling.
Light ones, I mean Light blue, light green etc.
Ljusblå, ljusgrön, ljusröd, ljusgul, ljusrosa etc. You just add ljus- (light) to the original color, written in one word. They're treated the same as the original color without the "ljus":
Ett grönt hus / Ett ljusgrönt hus.
En grön mössa / En ljusgrön mössa.
Mina gröna ögon / Mina ljusgröna ögon.
Två gröna bilar / Två ljusgröna bilar.
Hope it helps. Lycka till :)
@@mnemetotoro Tack 👍🏻
@@Yohann_Rechter_De-Farge Varsågod!
@@Yohann_Rechter_De-Farge Also, the l in "ljus" is silent, so it's pronounced with the same j sound as in "jag'" ( I ) and with a long u, the same u sound as in "gul" (yellow) or du (you) = juus.
@@mnemetotoro Like Yu?
Färg is I guess Pronounced as in Danish accent
Svartsjuk means to be jealous.