Past, Present, Future + PUT
It's been a while since my last post, sorry about that.
Today I'm going to give you some examples about the past, the present and the future tense in Swedish.
PUT
A fun fact, or trivia even: The Swedish language have more than one word for "put" depending on what you're describing. For example, you want to put a DVD back on its shelf. Then "ställa" is used:
Today I'm going to give you some examples about the past, the present and the future tense in Swedish.
"Du borde nog göra den där uträkningen igen."
(You should do that calculation once again.)
"Igår gjorde jag hemläxan. Den var lätt."
(Yesterday I did my homework. It was easy.)
"Vad har du gjort?"
(What have you done?)
(You should do that calculation once again.)
"Igår gjorde jag hemläxan. Den var lätt."
(Yesterday I did my homework. It was easy.)
"Vad har du gjort?"
(What have you done?)
More:
Skriva, skrev, skrivit
(Write, wrote, written)
Hoppa, hoppade, hoppat
(Jump, jumped, jumped)
Köpa, köpte, köpt
(Buy, bought, bought)
Läsa, läste, läst
(Read, read, read)
Gömma, gömde, gömt
(Hide, hid, hidden)
(Write, wrote, written)
Hoppa, hoppade, hoppat
(Jump, jumped, jumped)
Köpa, köpte, köpt
(Buy, bought, bought)
Läsa, läste, läst
(Read, read, read)
Gömma, gömde, gömt
(Hide, hid, hidden)
PUT
A fun fact, or trivia even: The Swedish language have more than one word for "put" depending on what you're describing. For example, you want to put a DVD back on its shelf. Then "ställa" is used:
"Jag ska ställa tillbaka DVD:n på hyllan"
(I'll put the DVD back on the shelf)
(I'll put the DVD back on the shelf)
Let's say you want to put down your weapon on the ground (maybe the police caught you with it, robbing a bank?) They'll probably say:
"Lägg ned vapnet på golvet!"
(Put the gun down on the floor!)
(Put the gun down on the floor!)
See you soon with another post!
Labels: grammar

2 Comments:
Ah damn it, I only wanted 20 kronor! Now how do I tell them that? :P
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Rache, At
May 25, 2007 8:11 PM
Hej!
I just found this blog from 43 things. It's brilliant! There aren't many communities out there for people who want to learn Swedish... thank you, and I think you will be a good English teacher :-)
Maybe you should think about running online courses, like Yorien of sayitindutch (disclaimer: this is only incidentally an advertisement). The worst thing about teaching yourself languages can be the horror of getting it wrong and looking silly, whereas online courses give you a safe environment in which to make mistakes.
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coraline (at tiscali punkt de), At
May 29, 2007 3:04 PM
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