Lundin‭

Disclaimer: Swedish native here, but no grammar expert. Without the preposition, then in most contexts the verb blanda means mix. The verb röra can mean either move, stir, touch (physically or emo...

posted 1y ago by Lundin‭

Regarding the two s in Jónsson, it is consistent across all North Germanic languages. It's simply the genitive case - the father's son. That is: "Jón's son" rather than "Jón son" (indefinite articl...

posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Lundin‭

I'm a native Swede but not exactly a grammar wizard. "kommit" is past participle for the verb komma: "komma" = to arrive "kom" = arrived "har kommit" = have arrived In order to say "I have arrive...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Lundin‭

This would be something called conditional mood (No: kondisjonalis), since is something that comes with a condition, "I should have done it, but...". Kondisjonalis comes in two forms, one with "sku...

posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Lundin‭

I'm wondering about the origin of the Swedish word ohyra (vermin). Someone humorously suggested that this would be because vermin are unwanted guests not paying rent (hyra), though they had no sour...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by tommi‭

This post is a blatant copy of this SE post. It lacks the little "hamburger icon" that's supposed to pop up when a post is imported by staff. So either there's some glitch here with missing hamburg...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

This is a known phenomenon also in Swedish where it is called särskrivning ("writing apart"). The wikipedia article Särskrivning (Swedish, no English translation available) with sources claims that...

posted 4mo ago by Lundin‭

Swedish, 127 characters. Almost certainly a correct translation: Välkommen till Språk & Lingvistik, vår grupp för alla intresserade av specifika (mänskliga) språk, språket och dess allmänna...

posted 2y ago by Lundin‭

I just stumbled upon this post, which was originally tagged "swedish" and someone recently added the "grammar" tag as well. Now the highly relevant "swedish" tag does not appear after the edit, ne...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

"You can find this information by Google" Can you though? Like the person who posted the answer, I just typed the question title in Google. After which I only get other Q&A sites like Stac...

posted 1y ago by Lundin‭

One example: The best canonical/formal source for the Swedish language is considered to be the Swedish Academy Dictionary and the word hen [hɛn] was added to it in 2014 (source: SVT news article ...

posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Lundin‭

The community seems positive so far. There are concerns about disrupting the main Q&A with an entirely different type of posts, but there are also concerns about if these games will have enough...

posted 2y ago by Lundin‭