Brukar: talking about usual habits in Swedish
What the lesson covers
The lesson introduces vocabulary for places, including ett bibliotek, en flygplats, and en plats. It reviews how to use förstå and shows how Swedish often omits att after verbs like försöka and ska, while still allowing it. Word order is flexible in sentences with modal verbs, such as Varför kan ni inte förstå? The lesson also explains when to use det versus den, with det fitting abstract contexts.
The adverb brukar is used to express usual habits, as in Jag brukar förstå or Hon brukar vara här. An alternative is normalt, which mirrors English structure, for example Hon är normalt här. The lesson practices expressions with activities and frequency, such as De brukar äta tillsammans and Han brukar läsa mycket.
The word plats is used in many structures, including questions like Vilken plats? and existential phrases with finns, such as Hur många platser finns det? and Det finns alltid en plats för dig. The lesson ends with adjectives like vacker and reviews tense constructions with var and hade varit, for example Det var en vacker plats and Det hade varit bra.
Vocabulary in this lesson
67 words. Inside Lingolib each one is tappable in the transcript and saved to your library with one tap.
- alltid
- always
- att förstå
- to understand
- att göra
- to do
- bibliotek
- library
- boken
- the book
- bra
- good
- brukar
- usually
- de
- they
- den
- it (concrete/graspable)
- det
- it (abstract/general)
- det finns alltid
- there is always
- dig
- you (object)
- din
- your (singular)
- du
- you (singular)
- en bra plats
- a good place
- en flygplats
- an airport
- en organisation
- an organization
- en plats för dig
- a place for you
- ett bibliotek
- a library
- flygplats
- airport
- för
- for
- förstå
- to understand
- förstår
- understand / understands
- försöker
- try / tries
- gjort
- done
- göra
- to do / do
- hade varit
- would have been
- han
- he
- har
- have / has
- har du gjort det
- Have you done it
- hon brukar vara här
- She is usually here
- hon förstår mig
- She understands me
- hon är normalt här
- She is normally here
- honom
- him
- hur många
- how many
- här
- here
- ibland
- sometimes
- inte
- not
- intressant
- interesting
- jag brukar förstå
- I usually understand
- jag förstår dig
- I understand you
- jag har
- I have
- kan
- can / to be able to
- läsa
- to read
- mig
- me
- måste
- must
- ni
- you (plural)
- normalt
- normally / usually
- om
- if / about
- organisation
- organization
- plats
- place / space
- platser
- places (plural)
- ska
- will / shall
- snäll
- nice
- snällt
- nice (neuter)
- större
- bigger
- tillsammans
- together
- vacker
- beautiful
- var
- was
- vara
- to be
- varför
- why
- veta
- to know
- vi försöker förstå
- We try to understand
- vilken
- which
- vilken plats
- which place
- är
- am / is / are
- äta
- to eat / eat
How the lesson starts
The opening of the lesson transcript. The rest is in the course, synced to the video.
Okay, so now we're ready for lesson six. In this lesson, we're gonna learn a few new words. We're gonna learn how to say library, organization, airport, and we're gonna learn how to speak about places.
Before we can do that, what was the word for to understand in Swedish? Förstå. Att förstå.
So, to say I understand you, how would you say that?
Jag förstår dig. Jag förstår dig.
She understands me.
Hon förstår mig.
We try to understand.
The video plays beside a transcript that follows it line by line. Swedish words are underlined; tap one and the video pauses, the meaning appears, and the word goes into your library. At the end there is a five-question quiz written from this exact lesson, and every word can be practised out loud.