We use "de" when "de" is the doer of the action in the sentence. In all other cases, it is "dem". You can recognize these latter cases by the prepositions that often come before "dem", such as av, för, med, hos etc. Exercises Fill in the blank spaces with "de" or "dem". Peter ville att ______ skulle träna med ______. Peter wanted ______ to train with ______. Susan gav ______ ett vackert gammalt bord. Susan gave ______ a beautiful old table. Vem ska göra det om inte ______? Wh

Another common mistake when it comes to word order is that we put inte after the verb in the subordinate clause (a subordinate clause is a part of the sentence that begins for example with words like om, som, när, där, att etc.). In Swedish, inte comes before the verb in the subordinate clause. For example: Jag sa att jag inte vill sjunga. not: Jag sa att jag vill inte sjunga. Exercises Which sentences are not correct? a) Han sa att han inte vill träffa mig. a) He said he doe

Usually we start our sentences with a subject, a noun or pronoun, that performs the action in the sentence. Then we add the predicate (a verb), which can be one word or more depending on the type of verb we are using or its tense. And then we add other things like an object (a noun or pronoun on which the object is performed) or a part of the sentence that gives us more information about when, where or how the action was performed. For example: Johan träffade sina vänner igår

Yes, there is a difference, and it is one of the common mistakes even good Swedish speakers make. In English there is no such difference, but in Swedish we use fler when the noun is countable, and then the noun is put in the plural, and we use mer when the noun is uncountable. For example: fler personer mer socker Exercises Which ones are combined with which ones? bord, kärlek, luft, vatten, fönster, boll table, love, air, water, window, ball mer: __________, __________, ____

no change of place: här, där, var, hemma, ute moving to another place: hit, dit, vart, hem, ut Exercises Jonas besökte oss förra veckan. Han semestrade __________ förra året också. Jonas visited us last week. He vacationed here last year too. A. här B. var C. dit Hans föräldrar bad honom att inte flytta __________, men han sa att hans hem nu är __________. His parents asked him not to move there, but he said his home is there now. A. här, dit B. vart, hemma C. dit, där Jag ve

Continuing with a similar topic! Last time we learned how to use här/hit, där/dit and var/vart, and these expressions, hemma/hem and ute/ut, behave similarly. The shorter ones, hem and ut, denote places we are moving towards and the longer ones, hemma and ute, mean that we are already there. Exercises Vi skulle vilja gå __________, men det var kallt __________. We would like to go out, but it was cold outside. A. ute, ut B. ut, ute C. ute, ute Men jag var __________ igår, kan

Today we will learn how to use här/hit, där/dit and var/vart correctly in a sentence. The above words ending in -t, that is, hit, dit and vart are used when the sentence or that specific part of it is about moving from one place to another. Här, där and var are used when the sentence or that specific part of it is about an action is taking place in one place. So in the first case we use verbs like att åka, att resa, att flytta, att komma etc., and in the second att stanna, at

Let's end this big topic with one more repetition! If you need to go through some theory first, you can find it in workshops 42-48. Exercises Ett-nouns can be divided into those that end in a consonant and those that end in a vowel. A. correct B. incorrect Ett-nouns that end in a vowel and those that end in a consonant have different suffixes when they change form (singular/plural, indefinite/definite). A. correct B. incorrect Ett-nouns that end in a consonant have no suffix

We are done with ett-nouns (for now), and in this and the next workshop we will review what we have learned in the previous ones (workshops 41 to 47). If you need to go over some theory first, go back to those workshops. Exercises Ett-nouns can be divided into two large groups in terms of how they change form (singular/plural, indefinite/definite). These two groups are: A. ett-nouns ending in a consonant and ett-nouns ending in a vowel B. ett-nouns ending in -a and ett-nouns