Comparing things in Swedish with mer än

en värld.

So, the world needs competent people.

Världen behöver kompetenta personer. And once again, we're talking about people, plural, so we would say världen behöver kompetenta personer.

So människor could also be used, human beings.

He is more tolerant than her. So to say more, you would say mer, mer.

And to say than, when you're comparing things and you say than, you would say än, än. And it's spelled ä-n, so it's the A with the two dots on top of it. Mer is more, and then than you would say än. So how would you say: He is more tolerant than her?

Han är mer tolerant än henne. Han är mer tolerant än henne. So it should be her and not she, so if you said han är mer tolerant än hon, then it's incorrect. It should be än henne: Han är mer tolerant än henne.

What about: She has more competence than you?

Hon har mer kompetens än dig. So "you" is dig, not du, because we're using the form where it's the possessive. In English, you use the same for both. You say, "You give it to him," but you say, "He gives it to you." So you say you in both cases, whereas in Swedish you have du when it's in the sentence structure in the beginning, like "du"—you do something, du gör, you do— but if you give something to you, then it's till dig, till dig, to you.

"Than you": än dig. Hon har mer kompetens än dig. What about if you say it, like in English you could actually say "she's more competent than you"? How would you say that? Hon är mer kompetent än dig.

So she is, hon är, mer kompetent, more competent, than you, än dig. Okay. Finally, is there evidence for your argument?

Is there evidence for your argument? And think about what "is there", how would you say that in Swedish? There is, is there, now it's a question, for your argument. And to say argument is the same in Swedish as in English, you pronounce it argument, argument.

So all together now, how would you say, "Is there evidence for your argument?" Finns det evidens för ditt argument?

Finns det evidens för ditt argument? And once again, it's a very fancy way of saying it, because evidens is not commonly used. You find it in research articles and stuff like that in medicine. But it's 100% possible to use evidens to mean evidence. The more common word would be bevis, so finns det bevis för ditt argument?

Is there support, finns det stöd för ditt argument, is there support for your argument? But for our case here now, we're practicing evidens, so finns det evidens för ditt argument? All of these words are the same in Swedish. Argument, you would say, instrument, you would say. How do you think you'd say moment? Moment.

And what about element? Element. And then cement is cement. And you have dokument for document. We talked about when we had documentation, right? Parliament is parlament.

So they're the same in Swedish. You have argument, instrument, moment, element, cement, dokument, parlament. Slight differences in spelling for the last two, dokument and parlament. So to use these as verbs, similar to the -information, you can say -era, right? Argumentera, you add on the -era.

"To cement"? How would you say that? Cementera.

So, obviously, we had dokumentera, from documentation. What was the word for "wants", "wants", as in "he wants"?

Vill. How would you say, "I don't want to argue with you"?

So, "with", we had that before. We had a sentence, "I want to be with my child": Jag vill vara med mitt barn. So, med means "with". So, how would you say, "I don't want to argue with you"?

Jag vill inte argumentera med dig. "You have a good argument." "You" for plural.

Ni har ett bra argument. So, it's ett bra argument because ett argument is the word. What was the word for "parliament" in Swedish?

Parlament.

A very useful word is the word "to like". It's not as strong as "love", so you can say, "I like it", "I don't like it". So to say "like" in Swedish, you would say gilla. Att gilla. And when you change it, it becomes gillar.

So how do you think then you would say, "I do not like our parliament"?

Jag gillar inte vårt parlament. So, it's vårt parlament because you say ett parlament. "You gave a correct answer." So to say "gave", that's the past of att ge, "to give". Jag ger, "I give".

To use the past tense, it's irregular, and it would be gav. Similar to the English "gave", gav. It's spelled the same without the e. So, how would you then say, "You gave a correct answer"?

Du gav ett korrekt svar.