Sentences About the Past
Talking about when things happened and why.
Swedish history in fifty spoken lines: stormakt to folkhem, emigration and the unsolved murder, two hundred years of peace — jag lånar dig en bok.
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Det hände på 1600-talet.
It happened in the seventeenth century.
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Det var länge sedan.
That was a long time ago.
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Sverige var en stormakt då.
Sweden was a great power then.
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Väldet varade inte.
The empire didn't last.
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Finland var en del av Sverige.
Finland was part of Sweden.
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Fram till 1809.
Until eighteen hundred and nine.
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Det sista kriget var 1814.
The last war was in 1814.
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Sverige har haft fred sedan dess.
Sweden has been at peace since then.
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Det är över tvåhundra år.
That's over two hundred years.
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Många utvandrade.
Many people emigrated.
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Mest till Amerika.
Mostly to America.
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På grund av fattigdom.
Because of poverty.
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Och missväxt.
And failed harvests.
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Min gammelmormor reste.
My great-grandmother left.
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Hon kom aldrig tillbaka.
She never came back.
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Sverige industrialiserades sent.
Sweden industrialised late.
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Men mycket snabbt.
But very quickly.
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Välfärdsstaten byggdes efter kriget.
The welfare state was built after the war.
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Det kallas folkhemmet.
It's called the people's home.
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Alla skulle inkluderas.
Everyone was supposed to be included.
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En miljon bostäder byggdes.
A million homes were built.
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På bara tio år.
In only ten years.
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Vissa kritiseras idag.
Some of them are criticised now.
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Men de var moderna då.
But they were modern then.
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Kvinnor fick rösträtt 1921.
Women got the vote in 1921.
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Senare än i vissa länder.
Later than in some countries.
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Statsministern mördades.
The prime minister was murdered.
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1986, på öppen gata.
In 1986, in the street.
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Fallet löstes aldrig.
The case was never solved.
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Folk diskuterar det fortfarande.
People still discuss it.
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Sverige gick med i EU 1995.
Sweden joined the EU in 1995.
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Efter en folkomröstning.
After a referendum.
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Det var ett jämnt resultat.
It was a close result.
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Euron röstades ner.
The euro was rejected.
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År 2003.
In two thousand and three.
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Vi har fortfarande kronan.
We still have the krona.
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Neutraliteten varade länge.
Neutrality lasted a long time.
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Den upphörde nyligen.
It ended recently.
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Det var en stor förändring.
That was a big change.
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Opinionen svängde snabbt.
Opinion changed fast.
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Historia lärs ut i skolan.
History is taught in school.
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Varje barn lär sig det här.
Every child learns this.
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Tycker du det är intressant?
Do you find it interesting?
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I allra högsta grad.
Very much so.
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Det förklarar mycket.
It explains a lot.
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Om hur folk tänker.
About how people think.
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Och varför saker fungerar som de gör.
And why things work as they do.
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Det var bra sagt.
That's a good way to put it.
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Jag vill läsa mer.
I'd like to read more.
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Jag lånar dig en bok.
I'll lend you a book.