Giving commands in Swedish

So, "She has many children," how would you say that?

Hon har många barn. So "many" is "många".

What about, "They don't have many children"?

De har inte många barn. De har inte många barn.

To say "too" like "too much", this is too much, this is too warm, this is too cold, to use this word "too" in that sense, in Swedish you would say "för", "för". And do you remember how to say "much"? So, we're not talking about "many", we're talking about "much". "I like this very much," for instance, "much".

Mycket, mycket.

So, how do you say, "You have too much money"?

Du har för mycket pengar.

Du har för mycket pengar. What about "They have too many cars" using "many"? "They have too many cars." De har för många bilar. And the more you stress the "ö", the more you're really sort of emphasizing on the fact that it's too many.

So you would say: De har för många bilar. They have like too many cars.

"I don't have many cars just now." Now, in English, this would sound a bit off, you'd probably say something like "I don't have many cars right now". That's probably the best translation. But the reason why "just" is written is because in Swedish that's what you would say: same spelling, different pronunciation. So how do you think you would pronounce "just" in Swedish?

Just. The J doesn't sound like a J in Swedish, it sounds more like a Y: just. Now try the sentence, "I don't have many cars just now." Jag har inte många bilar just nu. Jag har inte många bilar just nu.

I don't have many cars right now. How do you say "or" in Swedish? Or.

Eller. Eller. Do you want to eat now or tomorrow?

Vill du äta nu eller i morgon? Who is smarter? You or your sister?

And to say sister you would say syster, syster. So you exchange the "i" for a "y", and you get syster. So how do you say who is smarter, you or your sister?

Vem är smartare? Du eller din syster?

So to say "who" you say vem. And once again, if you're unsure, look at the "w", think, hm, it's gotta be a "v" in Swedish, and then vem is "who". So vem är smartare, smart, smartare, and smartest is smartast.

Du eller din syster, you or your sister.

My brother is not smarter than me. So to say brother you would say bror, bror.

You could actually say broder, broder, which is considered very old-fashioned, but it's closer to English, so broder if you can't remember bror. So my brother is not smarter than me.

Min bror är inte smartare än mig.

Should we go to the store?

Or, shall we go to the store, will we go to the store? How do you say that?

Ska vi gå till affären? Ska vi gå till butiken? Because butik is boutique, then butiken the store. Ska vi gå till butiken?

If you need to give orders in Swedish, this is very very easy. So for instance, let's look at some words. You look at the -ar verbs. So we have "to ask". Do you remember how to say "to ask"?

att fråga What about "to answer"?

att svara "to speak" att tala and "to like" att gilla You can also say "tycka om", but we'll look at "gilla" here.

"to inform" att informera So, if you want to shout an order at someone and tell them "Ask!" or "Answer!" What you would say is Fråga!

Literally the same as the the "to" form. So "att fråga", if you want to give the order you say "Fråga!" So, the rest are the same, so how would you tell someone "Answer!"?

Svara! What about "Speak!"?

Tala! And, of course, "to like" or "Like!"? Gilla! "Inform!" Informera! So, that's very easy.

Couldn't be easier, to be honest. For the -er verbs it's a bit different, but it's equally easy, I would say. So you have, for instance, the dictionary form "to eat". How do you say "to eat"?

att äta It's an -er verb because you get "äter", "jag äter". So, "to live", how do you say "to live"?

att leva What about "to think"?

att tänka For all of these cases you have "tänker", "lever", "äter" for the changed form in the present. So, if you want to give the order for these verbs, what you do is just remove the vowel in the end. So, if you remove the last letter, you remove the vowel, what do you get? Ät!

And say "Live!" to someone. Lev! Lev! What about "Think!"?

Tänk!