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Originally posted by: HejSvejsVa På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- Idioms are not only phrases or figures of speech, but they are cultural references. There are over 25,000 idioms in the English language (According to Wikipedia). Just like accents or dialects in a language idioms are not only different...

Originally posted by: devalanteriel På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- Hey all, I thought I'd post something about Swedish sayings that are... well, not quite exactly sage-like proverbs, but still such that everybody knows them and might use them. As I started, I quickly realised that there are quite li...

Originally posted by: devalanteriel På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- It's late December, and that means it's time for one million annoying songs on the radio. So I thought, why not translate one in Swedish that you probably haven't heard? The song I chose is called Mer jul and was written by the synth...

Originally posted by: devalanteriel På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- The Swedish midsommar is a very old tradition, akin to other Midsummer celebrations throughout Europe. It is one of the most important holidays in Sweden, or one of the worst ones, depending on how cynical you are. I thought I'd make...

Originally posted by: Tim801 På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- Hello! Or maybe I should say "Haj!" as we say in Skånska instead of the regular "Hej!" As a native Swedish speaker from the wonderful city of Malmö in Skåne, I thought it might be fun to introduce you to Skånska. Skånska...

Originally posted by: devalanteriel På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- Duolingo's courses are not very adult in nature, which is perfectly fine, but it also means we don't get to teach some words and phrases that might still be important to know. One such example is the topic of personal health and sexu...

Originally posted by: Arnauti På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- I wrote this pretty quickly and I'll come back to clarify and fix things - by all means ask questions and tell me what you think should be improved/added/removed etc. ##1. Main clauses (also known as independent clauses ) In main clauses (...

Arkiverat här --- Some common verbs in Swedish like for example hoppas ('hope') and lyckas ('succeed') are called deponent verbs. But what does that mean? The short answer: Deponent verbs are verbs that have the same form as passive verbs (ending with an -s ) but are not passive. The longer answer:...

I was hoping the Duolingo forum could continue on here. However I see your point, nevertheless posts stay on Duolingo even when the author is deactivated. I have added an addendum to the archived posts so people who have posted those post can ask to have them removed if they have a problem with the...

superessedi wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 7:57 am

How would you call the subforum for archive posts?

Well simply "Archive"...
As it happens it looks like BB already has added one in the Swedish forum.

Originally posted by: Lundgren8 På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- Hi, Some of you might have noticed sentences such as this one which is not completely literal when you translate it from English to Swedish or vice versa. In English you say: ”[…] now his foot hurts", but the Swedish sentence litera...

Jag är mycket förvirrad. Vad ska jag kallas mina fåglar? Tack för att svara! De fåglar du har hemma på gården är mest troligen hönor (kanske en tupp också?) Hönor är de som lägger ägg. En höna - flera hönor. En grupp hönor kan även kallas för höns. (Och det kan även vara en kycklingar och en och an...

Duolingo teaches us that husband is man , wife is fru . A Swedish friend uses the word maken when referring to her husband. Is that gender specific? If so, is there another equivalent word for wife? en man/mak e - a husband mannen/mak e n - the husband en fru/mak a - a wife frun/mak a n - the wife ...

It sounds like kvällsmat could be equivalent to the English supper . Is that correct? I would say that "supper" and "kvällsmat" are fairly close. There is also a French loanword "supé" meaning a more luxurious "kvällsmat", often with several dishes. For examp...

Originally posted by: Zmrzlina På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- Hello dear learners of Swedish! This post is meant to describe how time and money is commonly written in Swedish. As a reference to current Swedish events, we'll start by the ways to describe 8 pm September 9th 2018, when the polling stat...

also don't forget the technical limittaions you can only lock a TOPIC so no further POST with discussion can be started But a POST cannot be sticky to stay on top of a TOPIC, so the first ARCHIVE post, would disappear to the bottom (sort by most recent on top) when posts with discussions are added....

Dia dhuit!

I have followed this discussion about subforms with interest.
And I believe it's a good idea.

But honestly.
How big is the group of people interested in Irish?
Unfortunately not very big...

I believe that the Irish forum, for now, can do fine without sub forums.

I once again had one exercises that I always have trouble with. It's in the course English from Russian - newly updated by linguistics... Picture of a girl and a boy - translate дети. Once again I write children - no, wrong again. Only kids are accepted half a year later... Now I have given up to re...

[...] and you can always discuss the topic elsewhere. Why discuss it elsewhere, though? I would prefer if the forum was well organised and didn't have multiple threads about a specific topic. It would be easier for one to find what they're looking for. Unless you're having something specific in min...

Orginally posted by: Arnauti På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- Like in very many other countries, the Swedish system for lunch and dinner has changed, and there are still people around who stick to the older system. To avoid confusion, we only teach the modern standard usage of the words. Today, most p...

Originally comment by: Lundgren8 På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- I thought I'd take the opportunity to explain some differences between god and bra . God is obviously related to the English word "good" whereas bra is a later word borrowed into Swedish, related to the English word "brav...

Originally posted by: Lundgren8 På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- Swedish has a series of adverbs that are used to describe where something is or where something is going. In English these are often the same. You say both 'I am there' and 'I am going there', even though the first one really describes a...

originally posted by: Lundgren8 På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- The perfect tense is normally created with har + the supine tense, for example han har sjungit/spelat/sprungit ("he has sung/played/run"). The same goes for the pluperfect which is created using the past tense hade + the supine...

Originally posted by: Arnauti På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- Vill ha , tycker om and lagar mat We've noticed that these verbs are often difficult for new learners. Here are some hints: vill ha vill ha is a phrasal verb. It is used when you want a thing. There's no other way to say want to have in Sw...

Originally posted by: devalanteriel På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- Quite a lot of people have been asking about the pronoun hen in these forums, so I thought I'd write a summary on the subject. Surprisingly to many who first learn about it, the word is somewhat controversial in Sweden, for a variety...

Original comments by: Arnauti --- Maybe we should say something about modern-day relatives. If your partner has children from a previous relationship, you can say that these kids are your bonusbarn . There are also words like plastpappa / plastmamma for your parents' new partners. If your parents h...

originally posted by: Lundgren8 På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- Swedish learner nunes89 asked for a table with all the relative terms in this discussion . I made a short list as comment but thought I'd compile a ”släktträd” (family tree) which is available as a . pdf here. Edit (2016-06-02): The orig...

Originally posted by: Zmrzlina På Duolingo Arkiverat här --- This post was originally written as a reply to another question, but I feel it deserves a post of its own considering its length and information delivered. The original question and reply can be found here: https://www.duolingo.com/commen...

Original comment by: andrei.dumitrasc --- The following list might be useful, especially the first section. I only translated the phrases which I think are more commonly used. https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%C4%83_de_expresii_rom%C3%A2ne%C8%99ti A freca menta - a irosi timpul - to waste time A s...

Originally posted by: PhilipNikolayev https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/27539329 --- Hi, I thought this slideshow would be useful to intermediate+ learners of Romanian. For example, you in Romanian you can say that someone lies (minte), but it's more colorful and distinct to say that (s)he sells d...