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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Basic greetings & I, Me, You

Here are some greetings being used in Sweden:

Hi - Hej
Hello - Hallå
Good day - Goddag
Bye - Hejdå
Goodbye - Adjö
See you later - Vi ses, vi syns

And these are the Swedish words for I, Me, You and further on:

I - Jag
Me - Mig
You - Du (used for a single person), Ni (for two persons or more)
We - Vi
He - Han
Him - Honom
She - Hon
Her - Henne
It - Den, Det (I will do a follow-up on the differences between these two later)
They, Them - De, Dem
That - Den där

Useful phrases:
How are you? - "Hur mår du?"
I'm good! - "Jag mår bra!" or "Jag är bra!"


Download an mp3-file with pronunciations here:
MP3
As you can see, it's all very basic and short. Mainly because I'm all new to this teaching thing, but hopefully I'll expand these lessons as we go on.

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