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| Raistlin Majere Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Spain uciprotour-cycling.c Joined 7152 days ago 455 posts - 424 votes  7 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish*, Catalan*, FrenchA1, Italian, German Studies: Swedish | Message 9 of 35 06 February 2006 at 7:53am | IP Logged | ||
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But Swedish has a very similar thing:
Jag går och sovar I go and (I) sleep 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rickyr1983 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6866 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese | Message 10 of 35 06 February 2006 at 8:11am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't about the poor thing. It makes sense in Spanish where:
pobre=poor; having little or no posessions and pobrecito= poor you But in Portuguese you have: pobre: poor coitado: poor you 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lugubert Heptaglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6867 days ago 186 posts - 235 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Danish, Norwegian, EnglishC2, German, Dutch, French Studies: Mandarin, Hindi | Message 11 of 35 06 February 2006 at 10:39am | IP Logged | ||
I beg to disagree. Jag går och sover sounds a bit strange to me. It could mean, depending on intonation, 1) that you are sleep-walking, 2) that you literally have to walk somewhere to get your rest. For a similar expression, more natural to me, Jag går och lägger mig, the translation into English would be simply 'Now I lay me down to sleep'. Yes, it is more explaining the initiation of an action than referring to a future activity. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Steve Diglot Groupie South Africa Joined 6894 days ago 56 posts - 58 votes Speaks: English*, Afrikaans Studies: Norwegian | Message 12 of 35 06 February 2006 at 12:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Not exactly the same, but similar thing in Norwegian:
Jeg kommer til å spise Literally: I'm coming to eat means roughly the same as "I'm going to eat" in English, although not exactly the same... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Raistlin Majere Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Spain uciprotour-cycling.c Joined 7152 days ago 455 posts - 424 votes 7 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish*, Catalan*, FrenchA1, Italian, German Studies: Swedish | Message 13 of 35 06 February 2006 at 4:13pm | IP Logged | ||
This sentence appears exactly as I wrote it in my Swedish grammar book, as one of the uses of "gå". Is it incorrect then? Edited by Raistlin Majere on 06 February 2006 at 4:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6909 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 14 of 35 06 February 2006 at 5:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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No, not at all, but as Lugubert says, Jag går och lägger mig sounds a little bit better. Swedish search engine Eniro shows 31 hits for your example and 993 for Lugubert's... Does the expression appear as an example of the future tense, or just a usage for the verb?
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| Lugubert Heptaglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6867 days ago 186 posts - 235 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Danish, Norwegian, EnglishC2, German, Dutch, French Studies: Mandarin, Hindi | Message 15 of 35 06 February 2006 at 5:17pm | IP Logged | ||
My example refers to an action that in English would, in yet another way of translating it, be given as a progressive 'I'm going to bed'. So, usage, not future. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6909 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 16 of 35 06 February 2006 at 5:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ah, my question was directed at Raistlin, and the example in the grammar book.
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