av LYS editorial team | 2020, mar, tis | Okategoriserad, Swedish language
avliden This is the word used to report that someone is dead. Avlidna in the plural, as this is a perfect participle from the verb avlider (decease). (avlid! – avlida – avlider – avled – avlidit). Don’t confuse this with avlivar...
av LYS editorial team | 2019, nov, fre | Swedish language
You know when you want to make that monster really frightening, and you end up calling it a pattern? There must be plenty of post-ignorant expats out there, laughing smugly at their idiotic co-patriots who are too ignorant to take those dots seriously enough. When...
av LYS editorial team | 2019, nov, fre | Swedish language
There are some more complicated and some less complicated challenges when it comes to Swedish pronunciation. I have collected five particularities of the Swedish language, that should be rather easy to master technically, as soon as you have recognised their...
av LYS editorial team | 2019, nov, fre | Swedish language
It is late mid morning, and your Swedish colleague you are working together with, suddenly says: Hejurere? Jörenåt aja ätelunch nu? Jae ungri. You will need to answer with: Reelungt. Gårebra omja joinarej? Your colleague, a bit distracted on their phone, goes: Vasaru?...
av LYS editorial team | 2019, nov, fre | Swedish language
If you are talking about 100 % of something, how do you express that in Swedish? There is hel, helt, and hela, but also all, allt and alla. There is a logic to it, but there are many parameters to keep track of. ALL or ALLT First of all, because this is the easiest....
av LYS editorial team | 2019, nov, fre | Nordic Noir, Swedish language
Pick up a Nordic Noir novel to help make the leap to reading in Swedish. You’ll already know the basic framework and flow of the story as most crime thrillers follow a similar pattern and you can focus on organically learning new words as you go along. By Sofi...
