Swedish comparatives review: smartare, smartast
What the lesson covers
This lesson reviewed and reinforced the use of comparisons in Swedish, explaining that most adjectives form comparatives by adding "-are" (e.g., smartare) and superlatives by adding "-ast" (e.g., smartast). It also introduced the word "än" for "than" in comparisons. Key vocabulary covered included "friend" (vän, kompis), "to believe/think" (tro), "store" (butik, affär), and "open" (öppen). The lesson practiced constructing sentences like "I believe your friend is smarter than you" (Jag tror din vän är smartare än dig) and forming questions by inverting the subject and verb (e.g., Är butiken öppen?), as well as by simply raising one's voice at the end of a statement.
Vocabulary in this lesson
23 words. Inside Lingolib each one is tappable in the transcript and saved to your library with one tap.
How the lesson starts
The opening of the lesson transcript. The rest is in the course, synced to the video.
In the earlier lessons, we talked about comparing stuff, which we're now gonna repeat, because it's always important to repeat stuff, and comparisons are very important of course in language. This is when you say something is bigger, or stronger, or better, or worse. And we said in Swedish it's actually quite consistent.
So you can simply add -are, a-r-e at the end. Like smartare, to say smarter.
Or smartast, which is the smartest. So in English you would have smart and smarter, and then hard and harder. And then we have smartest and hardest. So in Swedish, you would say smartare, hårdare, and smartast.
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.