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Swedish Corona Glossary

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...

MONSTER or MÖNSTER – what is the most scary to you?

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...

How to sound more Swedish – five easy hacks

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...

vasaru hurere skojaru – How to make sense of spoken Swedish

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?...

hel-helt-hela-allt-alla

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....

Why crime thrillers are great first reads in Swedish

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...

Swedish Corona Glossary

MONSTER or MÖNSTER – what is the most scary to you?

How to sound more Swedish – five easy hacks

vasaru hurere skojaru – How to make sense of spoken Swedish

hel-helt-hela-allt-alla

Why crime thrillers are great first reads in Swedish

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