I learned Swedish 50 years ago when I was living in Sweden. I have not forgotten it, and I am always interested in improving my grammar and pronunciation.
The funny thing is that I've treated Swedish like English for a long time while I was learning Swedish, but Swedish word order is, actually, much more in line with my native Serbocratian. Even though Serbocroatian is pro pronoun drop language, the pronouns would go to the exact same place like in Swedish, before the verbs or after the auxiliary verb in huvudsats and before all the verbs in bisats, and we often do keep the pronouns. The biggest difference seems to be that Swedish negation 'inte' goes after the auxiliary verb in huvudsats and before all the verbs in bisats, while we'd always place the negation before the verbs, huvudsats or bisats. Even that emphasis På bio gick jag igår, that would make total sense in Serbocroatian. That thing with 'Gillar köttbullar gör jag' reminds me of American Ebonics 'I done like meatballs' :D
After I released the video, I realized that "Gillar köttbullar gör jag" contains a hint of other Germanic languages. Mostly this construction is considered "bad", for instance in German ("Ich tu' Hackbällchen mögen"), but it is totally normal in English ("I do like meatballs"). So it seems like Germanic languages in general have some pieces of this here and there in different situations. Swedish is, as far as I know, the only one using two finite verbs though. You have to conjugate both gilla and göra.
I started to think about Yoda and you confirmed it just a few moments later :) Thank you, this video was useful to me. I only started learning Swedish yesterday by listening about it's origins, general grammar concepts and then learning the first couple of phrases ("Jag heter Storm" and "Tack så mycket"), then decided to get better idea about basics of pronunciation (to be able to perceive words in not completely wrong way, because it's hard to correct once you get used to something wrong) and grammar. So I watched this video without any active vocabulary, but somehow managed to recognize your meatballs sentence example when you returned to it without repeating the translation (like "hey, it's those meatballs he was talking about earlier"). What I mean to say is your video is well made and useful even to the very beginners at 0 level.
God morgon Joakim. Hes, the secret of learning to speak a language, is to think in this exact language and not in your own.I speak, among Greek of course, german and english and I'm studing your own now. So... tack så mycket! Yiota, Grekland.
the same thing with verb at 2nd place is in German, i don't understand neither can speak it, but i know grammar and basic vocabulary really well and it helps me with learning swedish
I have a frustrating experience. Not knowing where to begin or hitting a plateau can feel demoralizing and make it hard to hit the books and study like you know you should…Having friends from other cultures makes me more creative. In fresh ways about space and how people create their own world and environment. It is best way to connect between creative thinking and cross-cultural relationships!
Att = "to" in front of a verb in infinitive (it's fun TO jump, det är roligt ATT hoppa) OR "that" in the beginning of a sub clause (I like THAT you're here, jag gillar ATT du är här) På = "on" in the most literal sense or "at" when talking about "institutions" (cinema, university, library) Till = "to" when moving TO a location (I'm going by bus TO Stockholm, jag åker buss TILL Stockholm) OR it's used as "FOR" or "TO" when giving someone something (den här är TILL dig, this is FOR you) (I'm giving this TO you, jag ger den här TILL dig)
We're "pa sig" when we're in a dress lol. The sentence is already played out and pa sig just seem to be stuck in the for the extra headache option should you want one hahahaha
För någon som har studerat norska innan svenska är V2 ordföljd ingenting nytt (jag började lära mig svenska för en månad sedan). Men finns det så mycket små ting jag kan aldrig huska på - liksom verb i presens, som kunne sluta med "-ar" istället för norska "-er". Jeg tycker ändå både om norska och svenska :) Jag undrar ibland - Hjälper mig norska eller stör mig mer :D Hilsen fra Polen
My brother god bless you for these videos I am actually understanding so much because of you.. I have always noticed this grammatical organization I just never had a word to put to it and I thought I was doing it wrong all the time.. till now bro god bless you brother 🔥🔥🔥😭😭😭
I am always confused more by the verb order after conjunctions in longer sentences. Sometimes the part after the conjunction follows v2 and sometimes it doesn’t. (Or I could be crazy! 😜)
Jag går på bio när jag vill titta på en film VS när vill jag titta på en film, jag går på bio. In the sentences with och, men etc. there is a normal word order. But as always there are some exceptions . I hope that I am right, if not, please, correct me. Tack så mycket för detta video!
it sounds like the sentence "gillar köttbullar gör jag" is constructed as two clauses, "gillar köttbullar" being the object of "jag gör ___" as in "I do like meatballs", used for emphasis. However, why then isn't "gillar" in the infinitive?
So the only difference between "I like the meatballs" & "The meatballs like me" is expressed through the personal pronoun? "Köttbullarna gillar jag" vs. "Köttbullarna gilar mig"?. Word order does in this case not change the meaning of these phrases?
Fantastic! Question: how does one negate these sentences? Does the ‘inte’ still always go after the V+S ‘grouping’ or does it always come before, or is it a mixture depending on the sentence meaning?
"Inte" goes behind the verb in main clauses and comes in front of it in subclauses. Jag gillar INTE mat = I don't like food (I like NOT food) Eftersom jag INTE gillar mat... = Because I don't like food (Because I NOT like food)
Yes, it is quite similar! (I don't know what happened to your other comment. I have it in my notifications but this happens a lot with RUclips that a comment just goes missing. I didn't delete it)
how about having "and" or "but" at the beginning of the sentence? Do I say "....men jag gillar köttbullar." or "... men gillar jag köttbullar."? Tack så mycket!
What makes "like" so different? Why can "Tycker" not still be used? The words I finally know and am getting used to for certain words become something totally different for the same words hahahah. Thanks.
I actually find the V2 rule illogical, our brains work by understanding the subject doing an action, not the actions done by subjects. It's a really impractical grammatical rule that I guess is just learned through forced exposure rather than it being a natrual order of words based on the processes of the brain.
I highly doubt that. You should use duolingo together with other sources. It's great for learning words and motivating you to do so. Their "tips" aren't normally sufficient.
I learned Swedish 50 years ago when I was living in Sweden. I have not forgotten it, and I am always interested in improving my grammar and pronunciation.
I finally understand the V2 word order
Tack!
Awesome!
The funny thing is that I've treated Swedish like English for a long time while I was learning Swedish, but Swedish word order is, actually, much more in line with my native Serbocratian. Even though Serbocroatian is pro pronoun drop language, the pronouns would go to the exact same place like in Swedish, before the verbs or after the auxiliary verb in huvudsats and before all the verbs in bisats, and we often do keep the pronouns. The biggest difference seems to be that Swedish negation 'inte' goes after the auxiliary verb in huvudsats and before all the verbs in bisats, while we'd always place the negation before the verbs, huvudsats or bisats. Even that emphasis På bio gick jag igår, that would make total sense in Serbocroatian.
That thing with 'Gillar köttbullar gör jag' reminds me of American Ebonics 'I done like meatballs' :D
After I released the video, I realized that "Gillar köttbullar gör jag" contains a hint of other Germanic languages. Mostly this construction is considered "bad", for instance in German ("Ich tu' Hackbällchen mögen"), but it is totally normal in English ("I do like meatballs"). So it seems like Germanic languages in general have some pieces of this here and there in different situations. Swedish is, as far as I know, the only one using two finite verbs though. You have to conjugate both gilla and göra.
Thank you for explaining this I’m starting to feel more confident learning and speaking swedish nu GODD blessssss youuu
That's great!
Very helpful, thank you.
I started to think about Yoda and you confirmed it just a few moments later :)
Thank you, this video was useful to me. I only started learning Swedish yesterday by listening about it's origins, general grammar concepts and then learning the first couple of phrases ("Jag heter Storm" and "Tack så mycket"), then decided to get better idea about basics of pronunciation (to be able to perceive words in not completely wrong way, because it's hard to correct once you get used to something wrong) and grammar. So I watched this video without any active vocabulary, but somehow managed to recognize your meatballs sentence example when you returned to it without repeating the translation (like "hey, it's those meatballs he was talking about earlier").
What I mean to say is your video is well made and useful even to the very beginners at 0 level.
That's awesome!
God morgon Joakim. Hes, the secret of learning to speak a language, is to think in this exact language and not in your own.I speak, among Greek of course, german and english and I'm studing your own now. So... tack så mycket! Yiota, Grekland.
Det är ganska enkelt för mig med tyska som modersmål, men jag förstår var förvirringen kommer ifrån. Bra video, Joakim. 😍
Det är lätt om man har tyska som modersmål OCH tänker på att det fungerar likadant. Många tror nog att det fungerar som på engelska.
@@sayitinswedish Lyckligtvis är det inte så. 🤣
Thank a lot. As always very interesting. When are you planning to continue slow Swedish series?
I don't know!
the same thing with verb at 2nd place is in German, i don't understand neither can speak it, but i know grammar and basic vocabulary really well and it helps me with learning swedish
I have a frustrating experience. Not knowing where to begin or hitting a plateau can feel demoralizing and make it hard to hit the books and study like you know you should…Having friends from other cultures makes me more creative. In fresh ways about space and how people create their own world and environment. It is best way to connect between creative thinking and cross-cultural relationships!
Hitting plateaus are frustrating, but totally normal when learning a language.
I just started Swedish like, a month or two ago, but here I go, jag tycker om bröd, just practicing with a real person to see if I said it right
You said it right :)
Att, på and till kill me. I never know which one and when to use them, unless I've heard a sentence with the specific thing I'm trying to say.
Att = "to" in front of a verb in infinitive (it's fun TO jump, det är roligt ATT hoppa) OR "that" in the beginning of a sub clause (I like THAT you're here, jag gillar ATT du är här)
På = "on" in the most literal sense or "at" when talking about "institutions" (cinema, university, library)
Till = "to" when moving TO a location (I'm going by bus TO Stockholm, jag åker buss TILL Stockholm) OR it's used as "FOR" or "TO" when giving someone something (den här är TILL dig, this is FOR you) (I'm giving this TO you, jag ger den här TILL dig)
Thank you so much for uploading this! I care so much about syntax.
Syntax is not as important as stress, though!
We're "pa sig" when we're in a dress lol. The sentence is already played out and pa sig just seem to be stuck in the for the extra headache option should you want one hahahaha
Please keep on making videos! I'm so into learn swedish aaa live your videos
Thank you :)
I understand this rule but I still screw it up sometimes, a reminder is always welcome.
That's life innit? We all screw up.
Oh god the syntax logic is crystal clear now. TACK SÅ MYCKET!
För någon som har studerat norska innan svenska är V2 ordföljd ingenting nytt (jag började lära mig svenska för en månad sedan). Men finns det så mycket små ting jag kan aldrig huska på - liksom verb i presens, som kunne sluta med "-ar" istället för norska "-er". Jeg tycker ändå både om norska och svenska :)
Jag undrar ibland - Hjälper mig norska eller stör mig mer :D
Hilsen fra Polen
V2 är ingenting nytt för någon som talar ett germanskt språk, förutom engelska.
Thank you, very interesting. I think bringing front some word is called as focalisation or topicalisation.
"Yoda language..." Haha, Jag förstår.
Hej hej älskar din kanal! 💗💗
Nämen vad trevligt! :)
Say It In Swedish haha jag hittade idåg till dig.Jag började följa din kanal ✔️✔️
Say It In Swedish haha jag hittade idåg till dig.Jag började följa din kanal ✔️✔️
@@tanerdemir9606 Tack!
same in dutch
Yesterday went I to the cinema (basically)
gisteren ging ik naar de bioscoop
Yeah, English is the odd Germanic language here.
My brother god bless you for these videos I am actually understanding so much because of you.. I have always noticed this grammatical organization I just never had a word to put to it and I thought I was doing it wrong all the time.. till now bro god bless you brother 🔥🔥🔥😭😭😭
Glad I could help!
Tack så mycket
Var så god.
I am always confused more by the verb order after conjunctions in longer sentences. Sometimes the part after the conjunction follows v2 and sometimes it doesn’t. (Or I could be crazy! 😜)
Do you have an example?
Jag går på bio när jag vill titta på en film VS när vill jag titta på en film, jag går på bio.
In the sentences with och, men etc. there is a normal word order. But as always there are some exceptions . I hope that I am right, if not, please, correct me. Tack så mycket för detta video!
it sounds like the sentence "gillar köttbullar gör jag" is constructed as two clauses, "gillar köttbullar" being the object of "jag gör ___" as in "I do like meatballs", used for emphasis. However, why then isn't "gillar" in the infinitive?
You're right about the action here being the object. It's the only situation where you have two finite verbs in Swedish. That's just how it is :)
Thanks, really helpful :)
Great! I'm glad I could help you :)
So the only difference between "I like the meatballs" & "The meatballs like me" is expressed through the personal pronoun? "Köttbullarna gillar jag" vs. "Köttbullarna gilar mig"?. Word order does in this case not change the meaning of these phrases?
... eller hur?
Fantastic! Question: how does one negate these sentences? Does the ‘inte’ still always go after the V+S ‘grouping’ or does it always come before, or is it a mixture depending on the sentence meaning?
"Inte" goes behind the verb in main clauses and comes in front of it in subclauses.
Jag gillar INTE mat = I don't like food (I like NOT food)
Eftersom jag INTE gillar mat... = Because I don't like food (Because I NOT like food)
Thanks for your very helpful and funny videos! The word order in Swedish actually seems quite similar as in Dutch! Lucky for me!
Yes, it is quite similar!
(I don't know what happened to your other comment. I have it in my notifications but this happens a lot with RUclips that a comment just goes missing. I didn't delete it)
@@sayitinswedish I did, because I think I replied to the wrong video ;-)
@@annetheijerman4809 ah ok
how about having "and" or "but" at the beginning of the sentence? Do I say "....men jag gillar köttbullar." or "... men gillar jag köttbullar."? Tack så mycket!
Yes, they are connectors and not a part of the sentence as such.
Jag vill ha min sheep!!
Va?
hey. sweet. der bart steht dir sehr gut :) und danke für ein weiteres video.
Bart ist schon wieder weg ;)
@@sayitinswedish och neee. schaaade
@@MumyMore kommt schon wieder
@@sayitinswedish det skulle vara fantastiskt :)
@@MumyMore nåja...
Hi brother, nice tipsss
No problem, bruv
can you do a relaxing video not a full asmr but i like it when people talk to me or it feels like someone talking to me helps with my anxiety.
There is an ASMR video where I read a bit of grammar here somewhere.
Men... jag vill ha svenska får. Jag behöver alltid mer ull...
What about "Finns det en bio i närheten?" If I'm understanding this right, the verb came first. Is the order reversed in interrogative sentences?
Yes, interrogative sentences work differently here and we begin with either the verb or a question word.
What makes "like" so different? Why can "Tycker" not still be used? The words I finally know and am getting used to for certain words become something totally different for the same words hahahah. Thanks.
Sorry, I don't understand your question.
@@sayitinswedish Sorry, I guess I was asking why tycker doesn't suffice for like always.
I actually find the V2 rule illogical, our brains work by understanding the subject doing an action, not the actions done by subjects. It's a really impractical grammatical rule that I guess is just learned through forced exposure rather than it being a natrual order of words based on the processes of the brain.
All Germanic languages except English are illogical then. It must exist for a reason.
Hej joakim! Can you teach us sth about Partikelverb?
Sure!
@@sayitinswedish äntligen!
Say it in English too😂😂
Hey say it in Swedish can duolingo get you fluent?
I highly doubt that. You should use duolingo together with other sources. It's great for learning words and motivating you to do so. Their "tips" aren't normally sufficient.
@@sayitinswedish Tack :)
@@Saltygravy117 Var så god :)
Gick du på bio igår?
Det är en frågesats, då kommer ett frågeadverbial eller verbet först.
How do you say pitch accent or tones in swedish?
What do you mean?
@@sayitinswedish how do you say pitch accent 1 or pitch accent 2 in swedish?
Is this what you say to talk about the tone or pitch of a word tonhöjd accent in swedish ?
@@davesalisbury4399 we call the accents "ordaccent" in Swedish. Accent I is called akut accent and accent II is called grav accent.
@@sayitinswedish Tack, tack!
gör gillar köttbullar gör jag! (yes, I really love them)
I knew this :P but loved the bonus! Great vid!
Perfect! Thank you :)
Where the homeless in Stockholm eat and sleep ?
Where do homless people eat and sleep in any city?
jag inte kan talar svenska ;-;
Då får du öva!
okej
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