Thanks alot for this video, its given me a greater understanding of how to use var and vara correctly :)

This was the best video I have seen for the verb "vara". Do all swedish verbs have only one conjugation pattern?

tack så mycket för att hjälpa svenska

Tack så mycket!

Nice video, thank you!

thank so much !

bra jobbat!

tusen tackar

tack!

steve... about the "i" pronunciation, i heard some swedes speaking i like "ee" with an "opened sound, a clear EE", but also i heard some speaking an "i" like a sound inbetween "ee" and "i" in english... like when some say "framtid", this i gets this strange inbetween sound I mentioned... same as "bil", "mobilen".... what can you tell me about this. Is it a common way to pronounce some words, or is it a region´s accent? TACK TACK!!!!

@TransparentSwedish

10 жыл бұрын

Hey Eugenio Hertz! You're right: Standard Swedish does have a rather special sound for the letter . But you're also right in that the exact quality of the sound varies among dialects, just as most other sounds in the language. I'll jot this down as a topic to discuss in a future video. Thanks for the tip!

@SankoCB

9 жыл бұрын

TransparentSwedish I, too, would love some advice on how to form this sound. I can manage all other Swedish sounds, but I can never get the 'i' sound anywhere near how a native speaker pronounces it!

i dont know any swedish, where can i start learning from scratch on youtube?

wow du är ju jätte bra på svenska

at 2:13 shouldn't it be "Det är" instead of "hon är"?????

@fredriklarsson1707

7 жыл бұрын

you can say Den är or hon är

why did you say hon är kvart i fem? wont it be det

En meter är inte 1000 cm!

@TransparentSwedish

10 жыл бұрын

Tack, har fixat till det nu! (typ)

How come the Swedish pronoun for "She" is used in "Hon är kvart i fem"?

@KaixKo

10 жыл бұрын

I'm wondering the same, I thought that the correct sentence would be "Det är kvart i fem"...

@EugenioHertz

10 жыл бұрын

I don´t know if this is correct, but i read somewhere that swedes treat time like "she", and not "it".... Swedish learner like you guys ( i suppose ). It´s up to Steve to confirm this.

@TransparentSwedish

10 жыл бұрын

Hey guys! When you talk about time, in other words "the clock" in Swedish, the standard pronoun used to refer to it is "hon" (she). This is a very rare exception; I don't think I've come across any other nouns that take gendered pronouns. Good luck with your studies!

@herrfriberger5

9 жыл бұрын

TransparentSwedish Solen, båtar samt (kära) maskiner är också _hon_ i många fall. Klockan kan vara både _hon_ och _den_, beroende på dialekt. Andra exempel på rester av äldre svenska är gamla ackusativformer, som visar sig genom att vi i talspråk säger saker som _såg du'na?_ (ur gamla ackusativformen _hana_) för _såg du henne?_. Det finns också mycket annat, som inte får plats här, men det vet du säkert.

just like a boat is a she, the cloack (time in sweden) is a she.

@herrfriberger5

9 жыл бұрын

Johan Hagdahl cloack ;-)

@johanhagdahl7701

9 жыл бұрын

sorry m8 =)