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Awe, cute sentence. 4laugh A little incorrect though. I'll explain:

Your word 'vettas' is fully understandable, but not grammatically correct. The past form of 'veta' (to know) is 'visste', so you'd therefore say "jag visste inte". After that, you should add a little 'att' (meaning that) to avoid might avoid confusion, I think. See this:

Jag visste inte blablabla - I didn't know blablabla

Jag visste inte att blablabla - I didn't know that blablabla

It might mean the same thing in English, but in Swedish it will, like I said, cause a little confusion.

And about the other part: "tråd" var maskulin. Like Koko.dk said, there's no masculine and feminine nouns in Swedish, only common (masculine and feminine together, article: en) and neuter (only neuter), article: ett. Historically, there were three genders, as in Icelandic or German, but they eventually turned into two. smile

Anyway, the last part should go: "tråd" var maskulint. Yes, the word 'tråd' is a common noun and should therefore not have a t in the end. But in this case we're talking about the word thread, and not the thread itself, right? The word for 'word' in Swedish is 'ord', which is a neuter noun, which is why we add the t at the end of 'maskulin'. The sentence should be:

Jag visste inte att "tråd" var maskulint.

BUT since there are no masculine words in Swedish you could say:

Jag visste inte att "tråd" var ett en-ord (a 'en' word).

I'm so sorry for this very long explanation. sweatdrop Hopefully it made sense...

Hmm, Svenska är inte så enkel lika jag tyckte... men tack för hjälpen.

...The above doubtless contains its own grammatical errors. I am only an egg.

"Hmm, svenska är inte så enkelt som jag trodde... Men tack för hjälpen."

Koko.dk: What I think? I think this:

to think in Swedish

tycka - to think, to have an opinion about something

tänka - to think, to have a thought in mind

tro - to think, to believe

As you can see, the English verb "to think" can translate into three different words in Swedish, depending on what its purpose is. Do you understand the difference or do you want me to explain it in detail? I'm not sure I can, but I'll try. smile

"Hva tenker du"? It's obviously Norwegian, but I think the same rule applies to all the Scandinavian languages (not 100% sure about that one though). Ask me again, and see if you can get it more exact this time. Not grammatically, but in its sense of meaning. smile

I feel like a teacher right now, I hope you guys don't mind me correcting you. sweatdrop

@Siocled- It's the same in Danish, at least. smile Tror, synes, and taenker.

Jag har inte pengar eller tid för det... jag bor i Florida.

Hehe, haven't been in here in ages, yet I can still understand you all to the same degree (yay for being able to kinda read Swedish, it's the coming up with the words and such that I have problems with... then again, I have that problem in my native/only tongue *English* too)

And I'm from Manitoba, Canada - there's a Swedish colony/farm place about half an hour from me where people from Sweden tend to move to for transitional purposes. I know some of the people that live there too, but I rarely ever see them. My family is from around there so they know who I am but only through my grandparents really (they'd recognize my last name and know who I am by that)

http://www.personal.psu.edu/adr10/swedish.html
http://www.ielanguages.com/swedish.html
http://tyda.se/

Those are also nice web-sites.

I have put the site you provided, Pixie, in my favorites. smile

Sju sjuka sjöman sköttes skyndsamt av sjutton sjutna sjuksköterskor. biggrin

It's a tricky sound I've heard. But it's like an English SH pronunced with the tongue in the position of an English K sound, which makes it sound a bit like the CH in the word "loch".


1. Try find the place of your palate where you pronounce your K's. Then make a SH sound and slowly pull your tongue backwards untill you hit the K position. That should be the sound, I think.

2. The other way of achieving the proper pronunciation is to first make the H sound in "human" (not the H sound in "hard") and then pull your tongue backwards the same way.


I dunno which one of these is the easiest to follow, but yeah, it's all I can come up with right now. Perhaps there are other explanations out there on the Internet that are better.

A recordning of the Swedish word "sju" is to be found here.

Varsågod! smile