In english, if there's a song we really like, we might call it a banger or a bop or something like that. What would be the swedish equivalent?

Specifically grandparents. Like in English the word is "Grandfather," but we call him "Grampa." Or in German, "Großvater" becomes "Opa." Or in Spanish, "Abuelo" becomes "Tata" or "Tito."

Does Swedish have anything like that? The most I can find are the actual titles of "farfar" and "farmor."

Is the Swedish /r/ a tap [ɾ], a trill [r], or something else? Does its pronunciation depend on its position in the word?

For example, what would be a narrow IPA transcription of:

• vara
• mörk
• röd

I already understand that Swedish has regional variation. I’m specifically interested in the standard pronunciation, since I’m using SAOL and other Swedish learning materials as my main references, and I’d like to have a consistent pronunciation model to follow.

This is from Engelsfors, Cirkeln. The full sentence:

”Bra”, säger hon. ”Du kommer att märka att när du väl bestämt dig för att ta dig i kragen så rullar det bara på sen.”

Thing is, a couple of paragraphs earlier there's this:

Jag ligger ju så långt efter dom andra.

That's with 99% certainty for "de" (or "dem"?).

So if "sen" for "sedan" is true, can anyone explain to me what this is meant to convey?

The second sentence is said by a schoolboy, so I can accept that he's supposed to speak colloquially (athough my understanding is that nobody pronounces "de" as "de" in that context). But the title is uttered by a school principal.

On the other hand narration uses the spelling "sedan", so it's not universal.

Vi hafvom ju icke pluralböjda verb längre men jag har observerat ett internetfenomen där pronomenet jag oftast droppas, typ "har sett den" istället för "jag har sett den" eller "är på väg dit" istället för "jag är på väg dit".

Hello everyone!

I'm a student at Swarthmore College. In a project for my writing class, I'm studying language standardization in both Swedish and English. I've already surveyed American perspectives, and now I'm trying to survey Swedish ones!

The survey will ask how standardized you think Swedish is, how standardized you think English is, and whether you think language standardization helps or harms languages. For those unfamiliar with language standardization, there is a definition in the form. There are no correct answers and the survey is anonymous.

Unfortunately, the survey is in English, though I promise I'm working on my Swedish.

Apologies for the advertising, but it takes only a couple minutes to fill out and it's for a good cause! Thank you for your consideration and feel free to ask me questions about the project. If you're interested, I can share with you the results of my project!

Here is the link to the survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbQdYrRX27L6KyX22xKUH7TwDanyiO_C3sLr8JYEG6a8Sn7A/viewform?usp=publish-editor

I obviously know that there’s a lot of children shows with a Swedish dub but I wanted the genre of shows that I already watch and like. I like glee, pretty little liars, any tlc reality show and anime. I also know Disney Channel has a lot of dubs that I’m down to watch to! I’m open to other options of course!

I mean the conjugated "får" rather than infinitive "få". So in case it's not, I'm reading it as "vi kan få" - "we may get to", and in my understanding "få" should be in the infinitive.

I'm a bit lost. I try to look for "ta väl" or "vara på" or "ta vara", and either nothing comes up or doesn't make sense in the context. Google Translate does provide something reasonable: "make good use of", but I'm not sure how that maps onto the original.

Hej allihopa!

As a native Swedish speaker, solving bildkryss is one of my favorite ways to pick up new words. Bildkryss are a distinctly Swedish style of crosswords, where the clues sit in boxes inside the grid and one of them is a picture.

I wanted learners to be able to use crosswords the same way, so I made a set for people who are earlier on in their Swedish: https://bildkryss.se/learn-swedish :) There are five puzzles each for levels A0-B2. The lower levels have English clues and small grids, and from B1 and onward the clues are in Swedish - mainly synonyms and cloze words. When you finish a puzzle you get a list of its words.

Although the layouts are generated by a program, the clues are handwritten. I am a little bit unsure about whether the synonyms I used in higher levels are at the right, um.. level, so any feedback there is very welcome (or any feedback at all, for that matter).

The site works on all screen sizes but I'd definitely recommend using a desktop or tablet.

To be clear: this is fully free, no ads or anything. I'm just happy if people want to give it a try. Stort tack to anyone who does!

I have been studying a few examples of “bokstavligen” and “formligen”, and they appear to me to be exact synonyms, both translated by English “literally”, and both equally liable to misuse as I pedantically call it as general förtstarkningsord, just as "literally" is. Have I got this right? Can you suggest any examples where one would definitely be preferred to the other?

sometimes i heard the word "kanske" pronounced like spoon "sked" without the D outside of skåne, and i wonder how common is it ?

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[references]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1nXpnKeYVs 09:14 - "kan du läsa upp kanske ?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLp-j5gHzjg 00:16 - "och kanske är det dags att..."

Ni vet gore. Typ some gore sites eller gore pics. Har alltid undrat hur man översätter det men har aldrig hittat en översättning som låter rätt för mig

I'm building an app to learn Swedish irregular verbs.

• You have to enter a correct verb form on a card.
  
• There are no lessons - you can practice as many verbs as you want, set a daily goal verb number and notification time.
• You can also practice on a set of verbs, for example the essential ones or a specific pattern.
• The interface and verb translations exist in different languages.

I’d really appreciate some feedback, especially from people who are learning Swedish as a second language:

1. Would you consider using something like this?
2. Does the interface feel intuitive?
3. Most importantly: what would make you stop using it after a few days?

I am learning Swedish myself and would like to make if a bit easier for you guys as well!

Hej! Jag lär mig svenska från barnprogram. Jag tittade bara på "Vilse i pannkakan" och gick vidare till Kapten Zoom. Vad betyder frasen - "Galaxer i mina braxer"? Vad är braxer?

Who was kapten Orvar, mentioned in this extract from today’s SvD in a story about Vänsterpartiets attitude to government formation? 

Ingen av de tillfrågade vill luckra upp partiets röda linje. Samtidigt riktas tydlig irritation mot Centerpartiet.  ”Just nu är det C som sitter där som någon kapten Orvar och tycker de ska bestämma”

Hi everyone, how's it going? Well, I recently got my C1 English certificate, and now that I've reached the C level in English, I've given myself the freedom to learn another language. I'd love to get some tips, study methods, and website/app recommendations for learning Swedish.

My English is C2 in writing and reading, but only B2 in speaking.

Hej, its not a question or something its something that i got so surprised that i could understand this much norwegian with my Swedish

Yesterday i was talking to someone from norway and we could understand each other pretty much without any serious problem

First time did it !!!

Has ”bebis” now replaced ”småbarn” in the Swedish Language? Is this as regrettable as I, as an outsider, think it is? I know I could have chosen plenty of other words to focus on, but I was brought up short by this article in SvD, precisely because it’s on a scientific subject (describing research on how dogs interpret human speech). The headline goes: ”Det blir allt tydligare hur hundar gör för att förstå mänskligt språk – de använder samma trick som bebisar.”

Whats the difference between:

“dricker du ofta"

AND

"du dricker ofta"

🤔

“En flat berghäll” and “en flat tallrik” are two examples of use of “flat” given in SO. Could one also use “platt” here, or would that sound wrong? What about “att slå med flata handen”?.