Introduction to Swedish: Lesson 2
Swedish for he is han.
This is similar to the word for she which is hon. Thus a man or he is han and a woman or she is hon. Not very hard, is it?
How would you say:
Swedish for because is eftersom.
It consists of two words: efter which is of course after and som which is as (or like). Afteras... well, I have no idea why it is like that but it is.
Now for the purposes of our example keep in mind that if you have a sentence with two connected inte verb and inte verb combinations in it, the second inte gets drawn before the word rather than after it so you will be saying inte är instead of är inte in the last part of the sentence.
You might have noticed that it ends in eftersom det inte är här and not in eftersom det är inte här
Swedish for to speak is att tala.
A coincidence or not, tala is a traditional rhythmic pattern in classical Indian music.
Swedish language names tend to end in ska. For example:
Swedish for Swedish is svenska.
How would you say:
Ask literally speak you Swedish?:
Here is another name that ends in ska:
Swedish for English is engelska.
You will also need to know that:
Swedish for and is och.
You could also use these words (just drop the last letter - it works like that for the I form if you’re male) to say for example:
Ask:
We haven’t talked about how to say they so let’s learn it now because it is just so not very much difficult:
Swedish for they is de.
No need to drop the last a for the de form. Say:
Do you remember that du and Ni thing? Well, Ni is coming from ni which is a way of addressing many people formally (such as you guys). While Ni is not used anymore, ni is. So you use du when you are speaking to one person and you use ni when you are speaking to more than one.
How would you say:
Now we know all the main pronouns: jag (I), du (you), han (he) and hon (she), vi (we), ni (you guys) and de (they). We are just getting started though.
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