Swedish kitchen vocabulary and the verb föredra
What the lesson covers
The lesson primarily focuses on common kitchen utensils in Swedish, introducing "kniv" (knife), "gaffel" (fork), and "sked" (spoon), along with their pronunciation and usage in sentences. It covers phrases for requesting and giving items, such as "Kan jag snälla få en sked?" (Can I please get a spoon?) and "Kan du ge mig skeden?" (Can you give me the spoon?). Key vocabulary like "sakna" (to lack/miss) and "istället" (instead) are explained and practiced within examples related to eating. A significant portion of the lesson is dedicated to "föredra" (to prefer), detailing its conjugation and use with object pronouns, and contrasting it with other verbs for liking or disliking, such as "gillar," "tycker om," and "älskar." The lesson also reviews other verbs like "stå" (to stand), "tala" (to speak), "säga" (to say), and "höra" (to hear), often emphasizing their appropriate context.
Vocabulary in this lesson
41 words. Inside Lingolib each one is tappable in the transcript and saved to your library with one tap.
- behöva
- need
- bröd
- bread
- danmark
- Denmark
- dig
- you (object)
- dra
- drag
- få
- get
- före
- before
- föredra
- prefer
- föredrar
- prefer / prefers
- gaffel
- fork
- ge
- give
- gilla
- like
- gå
- go
- går
- go / goes
- ha
- have
- hit
- here (motion)
- honom
- him
- här
- here
- höra
- hear
- istället
- instead
- istället för
- instead of
- kniv
- knife
- lyssna
- listen
- med
- with
- norge
- Norway
- också
- also
- prata
- to speak / speak
- sakna
- lack / miss
- sked
- spoon
- skeden
- the spoon
- snälla
- please
- stå
- stand
- står
- stand / stands
- säga
- say
- säger
- say / says
- tala
- to speak / speak
- tycka om
- like
- vilja
- to want
- älska
- love
- äta
- to eat / eat
- över
- over / above
How the lesson starts
The opening of the lesson transcript. The rest is in the course, synced to the video.
Let's talk about kitchenware, and specifically utensils you might use when you are eating. So, the fork, the spoon, the knife, things of this nature, as well as talk a little bit about preferences, when you prefer something over something else, how would you express that in Swedish. Let's start out with the three main utensils that are popular around the world.
Of course, there are many other utensils. You have like chopsticks for example, but I would say the knife, the fork and the spoon are probably the most common ones around the world. So, to say knife in Swedish, it's very, very similar to English. You say kniv, kniv.
So, the kn sound that for some reason in English you pronounce just as an n sound, like knife, you don't say knife in English, same thing holds true for knight for example that is also spelled like that,
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.