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.

"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?)

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)

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)

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!)

See you soon with another post!

Lars Winnerbäck - Elegi (music video) with translation

Time for some music! This is a song by a Swedish singer/songwriter called Lars Winnerbäck. He's from Linköping in Sweden. He's very good and well known here.

Lars Winnerbäck - Elegi



First the Swedish lyrics:



ENGLISH TRANSLATION