Mareike Senior Member Germany Joined 6222 days ago 267 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German* Studies: English, Swedish
| Message 9 of 176 30 December 2013 at 3:17pm | IP Logged |
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I moved to my family for the Holidays, therefore I wasn't be able to study much
Swedish, but I still managed to get to Assimil's lesson 33 and it's getting harder and
harder to memorise new words. Some words are pretty close to the German ones, like
Gurke/gurka, Tomate/tomat and so on, so that helps. But for other words it's quite
tough, especially because I have to remember the tone and the lenght of vowels. |
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My worst word was "sjuksköterska".
After a few pronunciation lessons, where we learnt the pronunciation of sju and sk by the following tongue twister:"Sju sjösjukliga sjömän sköttes av sjutton sköna sjuksköterskor."
I was able to remember the word.
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Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4213 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish
| Message 10 of 176 31 December 2013 at 11:17am | IP Logged |
Mareike wrote:
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I moved to my family for the Holidays, therefore I wasn't be
able to study much
Swedish, but I still managed to get to Assimil's lesson 33 and it's getting harder and
harder to memorise new words. Some words are pretty close to the German ones, like
Gurke/gurka, Tomate/tomat and so on, so that helps. But for other words it's quite
tough, especially because I have to remember the tone and the lenght of vowels.
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My worst word was "sjuksköterska".
After a few pronunciation lessons, where we learnt the pronunciation of sju and sk by
the following tongue twister:"Sju sjösjukliga sjömän sköttes av sjutton sköna
sjuksköterskor."
I was able to remember the word.
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Yeah, that's definitely a tough one!
Speaking of tongue twisters, I was tought the difference between y, u, and ö with this
tongue twister:
flyg, fluga flugan, flyg!
Och den fluga fluga flögt.
(Fly, ugly fly, fly!
And the ugly fly flew.)
Aaaaah, pure poetry.
Edited by Sarnek on 31 December 2013 at 11:18am
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 11 of 176 31 December 2013 at 8:26pm | IP Logged |
Actually it's:
Flyg fula fluga, flyg
Och den fula flugan flög.
Grammar notes:
Flyg - imperative of flyga, to fly
fula - inflected adjective form of ful, ugly
fluga - the dictionary form, fly
flyg - imperative, added for reperition
och - and
den fula - the ugly
flugan - definite form of fluga, the fly
flög - past tense of flyga, flew
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Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4213 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish
| Message 12 of 176 01 January 2014 at 11:51am | IP Logged |
Tack, jeff.
I have a question,though. Why is the adjective
"fula"? Shouldn't that form be used for plural
nouns only?
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Mareike Senior Member Germany Joined 6222 days ago 267 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German* Studies: English, Swedish
| Message 13 of 176 01 January 2014 at 2:16pm | IP Logged |
It's also be used in front of define nouns.
den fula flugan
Flugan is the define noun, so you need "fula" and "den".
Another example:
en stor stol (a large chair)
den stora stolen (the large chair)
ett stort hus (a large house)
det stora huset (the large house)
stora hus (large houses)
de stora husen (the large houses)
Exercises about this
Övning 1
Övning 2
Edited by Mareike on 01 January 2014 at 6:49pm
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 14 of 176 01 January 2014 at 5:15pm | IP Logged |
Thanks Mareike. I can now retire. :)
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Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4213 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish
| Message 15 of 176 01 January 2014 at 6:13pm | IP Logged |
Thank you both very very much.
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 16 of 176 01 January 2014 at 11:57pm | IP Logged |
Nice log! I'm looking forward to reading you the whole year, teammate!
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