Fifth circle Registered the : 2008-01-05
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It's been a while since I'm learning Swedish so I decided to make a thread (as there is NoNe). Well I find Swedish very easy but it has it's difficulties too as well. First of all I'm loving the melody of this language and as we are on metal forums this track by Sancta Poenas will help one to get what I mean by the 'melody of language'
as for actually language, first stat with letters: Ä ä - sounds like a in apple Ö ö - sounds like o in word Å å - sounds like o above, but it's a bit short o as I noticed. A a - sounds like u in under O o - well sometimes sounds like o in open ans sometimes like u in urban. I don't know if there is any rule to know which is which, you just have to know it.
there are two undefined articles in Swedish like they have 2 'a', but it's very simples the articles are: En and Ett and there are En-words and Ett-words which Means you can't use en article with ett-word, again, you have to know which is which. For example: a woman is en kvinna and you just can't say ett kvinna, it's a terrible mistake xD a tree is - ett träd so, what about the 'the' article? well if you want to say the woman you just take the 'en' and put it at The End of the word.for ex: a woman - en kvinna the woman - kvinnan (if wordends witha vowel you add only n) a wall - en vägg the wall - väggen (if word ends with a consonant, you add en)
it's pretty same with the 'ett-wrods'
an apple - ett äpple the apple - äpplet (+ t with vowels) a house - ett husthe house - huset ( + et withconsonants )
kinda simple, isn't it?
and a little about pronouns and 'to be'
I - Jag I am - Jag är
She - hon She is - hon är
He - han He is - han är
They - de [sounds like dom ] They are - de är
see? verbs don't change within plural and pronouns like it does in English, which makes Swedish awesome! well that's enough for the brief information.
If I made any mistakes, dear native speakers, my all Means correct me please!
once again, I'm not a Swede so if you want something to translate or whatever I can't help you yet. If I wasn't helpful at all, I'm sure this vid will be. Once you watch it, you;ll never fail in Swedish, never again!
Tack för din tid!
Failure I cannot fix, false hope for Nothing This is the life I lead and tomorrow will not change
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Fifth circle Registered the : 2009-04-17
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A very good guide for a non swede but there is one big mistake. Ö is pronounced like the O in Word, not like the O in Order. It's a big difference as you might tell.
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dawn_of_metal says : A very good guide for a non swede but there is one big mistake. Ö is pronounced like the O in Word, not like the O in Order. It's a big difference as you might tell.
oh yes yes, I edited it , thanks for the correction. I have difficulties to pronounce Ö like it should be, it's kinda very specific and so not familiar to me. Failure I cannot fix, false hope for Nothing This is the life I lead and tomorrow will not change
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