Background: three years of French in high school, fluent only in English
So. I started learning Swedish on Duolingo last week. I picked up Swedish because it sounded cool and because I wanted to learn a new language. Also, Sabaton is my favorite band. So far I've completed the first part of the tree. It makes some sense, but I'm having trouble with certain things and I'd like native speakers to explain it to me in the simplest terms possible.
My issues surround word endings and pronouns. I can't seem to figure out which ending to use when, and it seems like there are two or three different pronouns for the same word. From an English perspective, could somebody please explain this to me?
Danish and Swedish are pretty much the same, just speak the Danish you learn without a potato in your mouth.
Isaiah Walker
Background: three years of French in high school, fluent only in English
So. I started learning Swedish on Duolingo last week. I picked up Swedish because it sounded cool and because I wanted to learn a new language. Also, Sabaton is my favorite band. So far I've completed the first part of the tree. It makes some sense, but I'm having trouble with certain things and I'd like native speakers to explain it to me in the simplest terms possible.
My issues surround word endings and pronouns. I can't seem to figure out which ending to use when, and it seems like there are two or three different pronouns for the same word. From an English perspective, could somebody please explain this to me?
you mean like -et/-en? i'm a native speaker of swedish, and as far as i know there's no specific pattern, you'll just have to learn by heart
Hunter Barnes
I looked it up and if you use ett or en as the "a" you add et or en to the end of the noun respectively, but no there's no way to tell which one it is in the first place
examples: ett apple- applet en hund- hunden
also all the animals are en and en is far more common
Luis Myers
Not op
So.... ett apple = An apple applet = The apple ???
John Ortiz
correct
Charles Gray
Tack! Cool. I like how that functions grammatically.
Kayden Sanders
It's usually something that trips up new people learning the language, so sentences end up looking really odd. Like "Hundet behöver gå ut och gå" When it should be "Hunden behöver gå ut och gå"
"The dog needs a walk outside"
Carson Phillips
Like OP said earlier >also all the animals are en and en is far more common All animals take -en
No so difficult.
Joseph Turner
it's easy take the word "wander"
vandra - to wander vandring - the act of wandering vandrat - has wandered, "have you been out wandering?" vandrade - has wandered "were you wandering" vandras - wandering currently "vandras det?" vandrandes - have wandered "he came wandering"
Asher Wood
ett äpple - an apple äpplet = the apple äpplena = the apples äpplen =apples
Jaxon Flores
No offensive, but do you not have any foreign language experience? This stuff is elementary in any other Germanic language.
Dominic Harris
oh man word endings suck in other languages. like in latin and german (and swedish). makes me appreciate english more
Charles Cook
ett får ett lejon ett svin ett bi Even: ett djur
Jack Roberts
Yeah because English is super logical, right? You just think it makes sense because you grew up with it, dummy. :~)
Josiah Jones
English is the greatest language ever, and i say that unironically. It's pretty simple to learn and isn't unnecessarily complicated unlike other languages.
It's easy to convey very complex ideas unlike in swedish or germans where it takes a shit ton off effort to say the simplest thing.
The fact that it has so many words help too.
Michael Peterson
euros will tell you that it makes english easier to learn. get some exposure bud
Adrian Sanchez
there you go
Jeremiah Thomas
I am Swedish myself. English is a mess of a language, but because of this mess people mistakenly believe that it's "easy" or such.
Nicholas Bell
Engelska är ett dåligt språk som saknar många bra ord som t.ex. rike.
Carson Stewart
iagh behofver hielp meþ suenska. iagh hauer ener gamal bok fran 1200-talet at læra mik meþ oc þeþ gar ikke sva bra
Henry Gray
>rike kingdom
Jose Anderson
Nej
Hunter Roberts
> rike dåligt exempel favä
Jack King
vandras - being wandered/is wandered vandrandes - in a wandering manner, not "have wandered"
Nice that you want to help, but be more accurate.
>Engelska är ett dåligt språk som saknar många bra ord Tycker att det är faktiskt det omvända. Det händer när jag talar slovakiska, att jag känner till ett engelskt ord som betyder exakt det jag vill säga, men det enda sätt att överföra densamma meningen i slovakiska är att använda ett uttryck som består av flera ord. Har du aldrig upplevt något liknande (dvs. såvida du kan engelska mycket bra)? Engelskt ordförråd är sjukt enormt helt enkelt.