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Swedish guides
- En or ett? Swedish noun genderEvery Swedish noun is an en-word or an ett-word. The noun decides — not the sound that follows.
- Swedish word order: the verb comes secondIn a Swedish main clause the verb is always in slot 2. Put anything else first and the subject moves behind the verb.
- Gå or åka? Saying “go” in SwedishEnglish go is three verbs in Swedish: gå on foot, åka by vehicle, köra when you drive.
- 6 common Swedish mistakes — and the fixThe six slips that give away an English speaker in Swedish, each crossed out and fixed.
- Sin or hans? Swedish has two kinds of 'his'sin = the subject's own. hans / hennes = someone else's. English his covers both.
- Swedish adjective endings: stor, stort, storaen-word: stor. ett-word: stort. Plural or after the: stora.
- Tycker, tror or tänker? Three Swedish verbs for 'think'tycker = my opinion. tror = I believe, I guess. tänker = the thinking itself.
- Ska or kommer att? The Swedish futureska = someone has decided. kommer att = it will just happen.
- Swedish plurals: -or, -ar, -er, -n or nothingFive plural endings. The word's last letter and en/ett pick it: flickor, bilar, studenter, äpplen, hus.
- På or i? Swedish prepositions for placesi = inside, and cities or countries. på = on a surface, open places, islands, and places with a purpose: på jobbet, på bio.
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Italian guides
- Imperfetto or passato prossimo? Italian past tensesPassato prossimo = something happened (a point). Imperfetto = what was going on, or used to happen (a line).
- Il, lo, la, l', i, gli, le: Italian “the”Seven words for “the”: il, lo, l' → i, gli (masculine) and la, l' → le (feminine). The first letter of the next word picks the form.
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