anyone speak swedish?

"Var rädd om dig" = "Take care of yourself".

"inget går upp mot din hårda kropp emot min" = "Nothing compares to your hard body against mine".

Err, what exactly are you translating? Smile

Never mind, don't want to know. Wink

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:wink:

translating an SMS text sent by my a swedish girl i know.

i got stuck with the translation as radd came up as meaning afraid or frightened - i was a bit worried about her being scared of me Surprised

i guess it must also mean to take care Confused

Thanks a lot, much appretiated. I must start learning swedish right away.

jc

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:wink:

translating an SMS text sent by my a swedish girl i know.

i got stuck with the translation as radd came up as meaning afraid or frightened - i was a bit worried about her being scared of me Surprised

i guess it must also mean to take care Confused

Thanks a lot, much appretiated. I must start learning swedish right away.

jc

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Yes, if it would have been "var rädd för" it would have meant "be afraid of". "Var rädd om", on the other hand, means "be careful with".

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Thanks again for the info.

What are the literal meanings of om & for?

also do you know a simple way of getting the extra 3 swedish letters on a key board?

cheers.

jc

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'Om' is a preposition that can mean several different things depending on the context. The most common meanings are 'if' and 'about'. Examples:

"If you go to the beach" = "Om du går till stranden".
"I know nothing about you" = "Jag vet ingenting om dig".

'För' can also mean several different things. The most common meanings are 'for', and 'of'. It can be pretty tricky to learn, though, because 'of' can't always be translated to 'for'. More often 'of' means 'av' in Swedish.

As for the 3 extra letters you can hold down the left alt button on the keyboard and press these number codes on the numerical keyboard to get them:

å - 134
ä - 132
ö - 148

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thanks again Very Happy

jc

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den, det ? which one?
Hi,

just got another question - when do I use the pronoun 'den' & when do i use 'det'? I assume it's for the common gender & neuter usage, but if for example i want to say 'I see it', would I say ' Jag ser den'? or det? & why.

also just another - sorry - is jag pronounced like yaa or is it sometimes like yo?

thanks.

jc

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Well, that's the thing. You don't know if it's den or det for a word. You have to learn the correct form along with each noun. Similar to when learning German, then you have to learn if it's der, das or die. In Swedish there are only 2 forms, though, and I think a vast majority of the words have "den". So "I see it" would be either "Jag ser den" or "Jag ser det" depending to what object is referred to.

Jag is pronounced approximately like "Jar" minus the 'r', plus a 'g' like the 'g' in "good".

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i hope i'm not taking advantage too much here, but I have 1 last set of questions:

I'm looking at some Swedish teaching exercises. In many of the examples in swedish, they are phrased differently to how it would normally be said in English, although the meaning is normally clear enough.

My questions are, in the examples below:

en kort stund efteråt = soon after. would it sound weird in Swedish just to translate directly & maybe say something like: snart efter ?

also,

min klocka går efter = my watch is slow. again, would it sound strange to translate it directly to maybe: min kloker är lånsam.

I can translate quite well from Swedish to English & get the correct meaning, but so many of the examples are worded so differently to how they'd be said in English it would be really difficult to remember all the phraseology Confused

here's the site: http://www.goethe-verlag.com/tests/WE/WET002.HTM

I appretiate that the way sentences are be put together may be slightly different, but so many of these examples seem so different.

Are the examples on the site really what would be a normal way of saying things in Swedish?

thanks, confused,

jc

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40apple40 wrote:

i hope i'm not taking advantage too much here, but I have 1 last set of questions:

Feel free to ask as much as you wish. It's no problem really, just glad to be of help.

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I'm looking at some Swedish teaching exercises. In many of the examples in swedish, they are phrased differently to how it would normally be said in English, although the meaning is normally clear enough.

My questions are, in the examples below:

en kort stund efteråt = soon after. would it sound weird in Swedish just to translate directly & maybe say something like: snart efter ?

Yes, "snart efter" would sound weird. "Strax efter" would be perfectly acceptable, though. For example: "He came home soon after midnight" = "Han kom hem strax efter midnatt". "Snart" and "strax" normally mean the same thing, but there are some differences. "Snart" is only used in relation to the present, unlike "strax" which can be used in relation to the past and to the future as well.

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min klocka går efter = my watch is slow. again, would it sound strange to translate it directly to maybe: min kloker är lånsam.

Yes, you can't do that. It would sound very weird, and you run a big risk of not even being understood. The person who heard that sentence would probably make the interpretation that your watch is slow, and with a tendency to lag behind. Not that it has done so already.

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I can translate quite well from Swedish to English & get the correct meaning, but so many of the examples are worded so differently to how they'd be said in English it would be really difficult to remember all the phraseology

here's the site: http://www.goethe-verlag.com/tests/WE/WET002.HTM

I appretiate that the way sentences are be put together may be slightly different, but so many of these examples seem so different.

Are the examples on the site really what would be a normal way of saying things in Swedish?

Yes, found nothing strange among those phrases. Do you really think they were that different? Apart from the examples you mentioned, most are pretty similar, don't you think?

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Great, thanks for that. your right , most of the others are similar in their layout - the few that weren't must have grabbed my attention & got me worried.

Smile

Thanks again for your help.

jc

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edit: way too many mistakes!

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Wow!
Jag har ingen aning om hur du kan hjälpa na'n med svenska sa bra! Jag är nöjd om jag kan skriva hem till Svedala utan för manga fel!

I'm losing my own freakin' language, dog!

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bigdice67 wrote:

edit: way too many mistakes!

i'm not too sure what you meant by this bigdice - with my swedish? i'm sure there are Laughing

all the info i got so far seems very helpful. it's even helpful you writing in swedish so i can practice translation - what does "na'n " mean though?

jc

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He means "nån" which is a contraction of "någon", i.e. "somebody". That's spoken language, though.

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i only know one sentence in swedish, but i don't know how to write it. maybe somebody can help:

yo kann intertaler svenska, kann tu taler engelska el tuska?

i am sure this looks very funny to s.o. who is from sweden Embarrassed

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pola wrote:

i only know one sentence in swedish, but i don't know how to write it. maybe somebody can help:

yo kann intertaler svenska, kann tu taler engelska el tuska?

i am sure this looks very funny to s.o. who is from sweden

That would be "Jag kan inte tala Svenska, kan du tala Engelska eller Tyska?" althou a more common way would be to write "Jag talar inte Svenska..."

I'm sure you already know what it means, but for those who dont it means " I don't speak Swedish (actually: I can not speak swedish), do you speak English or German?"

Smile

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That's correct disown. Languages aren't capitalized in Swedish though.

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anyone speak swedish?

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