LESSON NOTES

Upper Beginner S1 #11

Good Things Come to Those Who
Wait in Sweden

CONTENTS
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3
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4
5
7

Swedish
English
Vocabulary
Sample Sentences
Vocabulary Phrase Usage
Grammar
Cultural Insight

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SWEDISH
1.

Emma:

Elsa, mamma ska bara g och handla lite mjlk. Sitt hr i bilen och
g inte ngonstans.

2.

Elsa:

Jag vill inte sitta hr! Jag vill ocks flja med!

3.

Emma:

Det r bttre om du sitter hr och vntar.

4.

Elsa:

Jag vill flja med!

5.

Emma:

Om du vntar hr, s fr du en present.

6.

Elsa:

Okej d.

7.

Emma:

Bra, jag r snart tillbaka!

8.

Emma:

Hr fr du, jag kpte dig en glass.

9.

Elsa:

Tack!

10.

Emma:

Du ser, det var vl bra att du satt kvar och vntade.

ENGLISH
1.

Emma:

Elsa, Mommy is only going to go and buy some milk. Sit in the car
and don't go anywhere.

2.

Elsa:

I don't want to sit here! I want to come too!

3.

Emma:

It's better if you sit here and wait.

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4.

Elsa:

I want to come!

5.

Emma:

If you wait here, then you'll get a present.

6.

Elsa:

Okay then.

7.

Emma:

Great, I'll be back soon!

8.

Emma:

Here you go, I bought you an ice cream.

9.

Elsa:

Thanks!

10.

Emma:

You see, it was good that you sat there and waited.

VOCABULARY
S w e dish

English

C lass

att handla

to buy

verb

att sitta

to sit

verb

bil

car

noun

ngonstans

anywhere

adverb

om

if

conjunction

glass

ice cream

noun

ocks

also

adverb

SAMPLE SENTENCES

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Det r billigare att veckohandla.

Det r svrt att sitta stilla en lnge tid.

"It is cheaper to do weekly shopping."

"Its difficult to sit still for a long time."

Anna och Pelle har kpt en ny bil.

Malin ska kpa en bil.

Anna and Pelle have bought a new car.

"Malin is going to buy a car."

Mannen kr en bil.

Lisa ska inte ka ngonstans p sin

semester.

"The man is driving a car."

"Lisa is not going anywhere on her

vacation."
Om vi ska hinna med bussen, s mste

Om du ter upp dina grnsaker, s fr

vi g nu.

du g frn bordet.

If were to catch the bus, so we have to go

"If you eat your vegetables, then you can

now.

leave the table."

Vi kan g ut och ta om du vill.

Det r s varmt att min glass smlter.

"We can go out for dinner if you want. "

"It's so hot that my ice cream melts."

Jag vill ocks ka till Paris.

Jag tycker ocks om Robbie Williams.

"I also want to go to Paris."

"I also like Robbie Williams."

VOCABULARY PHRASE USAGE

ngonstans ("anywhere")
In this lesson's dialogue, the adverb ngonstans was introduced, and it corresponded to the
English word "anywhere." However, ngonstans also corresponds to the English
"somewhere," and it's good to know that you in Swedish does not separate these two words.
As with most of the words that contain ngon, Swedes are likely to use nnstans instead of
ngonstans in colloquial language.

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att handla ("to buy")

In this lesson's dialogue, Emma uses the verb att handla when she is telling her daughter that
she is going to go and buy some milk, and the verb therefore corresponds to the English verb
"to buy." However, it might be good to know that the verb att handla also can correspond to
the verb "to act." Here is an example of a sentence where att handla instead correspond to "to
act."
For Example:
1.

Det r viktigt att handla snabbt.

"It's important to act fast."

GRAMMAR
The Focus of This Lesson Is to Learn Conjugation Rules for Irregular Verbs.
Sitt hr i bilen och g ingenstans.
"Sit in the car and don't go anywhere."

Up until now, we have only learned the conjugation rules for the three groups of verb that
conjugate regularly in Swedish. We will therefore start to learn the conjugation rules for some
of the irregular or strong verbs, as they are also referred to. In Swedish, we can divide
irregular verbs into two groups: irregular and double irregular verbs. The irregular verbs are
irregular in the way that they change stem vowels but do follow conjugation rules, while you'll
need to memorize the double irregular verbs and their conjugation.
In this lesson, we will more specifically look at how irregular verbs with a verb stem that
contains a short -i followed by two consonants conjugate. Examples of verbs that belong to
this group are att sitta ("to sit"), att dricka ("to drink"), and att springa ("to run"). Understanding
conjugation rules is not always easy, so let us look at a table below to make it a bit easier to
comprehend.

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Preterit

Meaning

Imperative

Infinitive

Present

Add the

Add the

Ending -A

Ending -Er

to the

to the

Imperative

Imperative

Form of the

Form of the

Verb

Verb

Same As
Imperative
Form, But
Stem
Vowel
Changes

Supine
Change
Stem
Vowel
From -I to U and Add

From -I to -

the Ending -

It

"to sit"

sitt

att sitta

sitter

satt

suttit

"to drink"

drick

att dricka

dricker

drack

druckit

"to run"

spring

att springa

springer

spang

sprungit

As you can see from the chart above, you can form the different forms of a verb if you know
the imperative form of the verb. To form the infinitive, you simply add the ending -a to the
imperative form, so sitt ("sit") becomes att sitta ("to sit"). If you instead want to form the present
tense, you add the ending -er to the imperative form, so sitt ("sit") becomes sitter ("sits"). For
the preterit, you instead you simply change the stem vowel -i to an -a, so sitt ("sit") becomes
satt ("sat"). Finally, for the supine form, you change the stem vowel -i to -u and add the ending
-it, so sitt ("sit") becomes suttit ("been sitting").
Now, let us look at some examples of sentences with irregular verbs belonging to this group.
Sample Sentences

1.

Anna tycker om att sitta utomhus och lsa.

"Anna likes to sit outside and read."

2.

Anna sitter utomhus och lser.

"Anna is sitting outside reading."

3.

Anna satt utomhus och lste.

"Anna was sitting outside reading."

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4.

Anna har suttit utomhus och lst hela dagen.

"Anna has been sitting outside reading all day."

CULTURAL INSIGHT
Childrearing in Sweden

In this lesson's dialogue, Emma tried bribing her daughter Elsa to get her to agree to wait in
the car, and this leads on to the question of how Swedes tend to raise their children. Swedish
parenting is in many ways different from parenting in other cultures. In general, Swedes can
be said to have an individualistic view on children, where the child is recognized as an
individual with different characteristics, and this is something that is also reflected in the
approach Swedes take to parenting. It should be mentioned that bribing you children as
Emma did in this lesson's dialogue is generally not viewed as a preferable way of getting your
child to do what you want. In many ways, Swedes try to reason with their children, and some
critics feel that too much consideration of the child's own opinions is given. In Sweden, the
parents' right to physically discipline their children was abolished in 1966, and teachers and
other people working with children are obligated by law to report to the social services
agency if they suspect that a child is being abused in any way at home.

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