How to say country names in Swedish
What the lesson covers
The lesson teaches how to say country names in Swedish by identifying common pronunciation and spelling patterns. It highlights three main categories: countries that gain an "-IEN" ending, such as Italien (Italy) and Spanien (Spain); countries that use "-LAND," including those that already end with it (e.g., England) and others that adopt it (e.g., Estland for Estonia, Ryssland for Russia); and countries whose names are exactly the same or very similar to their English counterparts, like Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan. The session concludes with practice phrases incorporating these country names and additional Swedish vocabulary.
Vocabulary in this lesson
62 words. Inside Lingolib each one is tappable in the transcript and saved to your library with one tap.
- italien
- Italy
- japan
- Japan
- tyskland
- Germany
- spanien
- Spain
- indien
- India
- bosnien
- Bosnia
- serbien
- Serbia
- tjeckien
- Czechia
- brasilien
- Brazil
- syrien
- Syria
- jag
- I
- kommer
- come
- från
- from
- bor
- live
- i
- in
- ska
- will
- till
- to
- gå
- go
- och
- And
- resa
- travel
- england
- England
- finland
- Finland
- irland
- Ireland
- estland
- Estonia
- lettland
- Latvia
- ryssland
- Russia
- island
- Iceland
- singapore
- Singapore
- malaysia
- Malaysia
- vietnam
- Vietnam
- kina
- China
- colombia
- Colombia
- argentina
- Argentina
- pengar
- Money
- har
- have
- inte
- not
- saknar
- lack
- vill
- want / wants
- köpa
- buy
- kaffe
- coffee
- med
- with
- mina
- my
- hur
- how
- mycket
- much
- kostar
- cost
- det
- it
- den
- it
- att
- to (infinitive marker)
- flyga
- fly
- behöver
- Need
- nu
- now
- ett
- a/an (neuter)
- hus
- house
- men
- but
- inga
- no
- din
- your
- bil
- car
- en
- a/an (common gender)
- för
- for
- mitt
- my
- jobb
- job
- arbete
- work
How the lesson starts
The opening of the lesson transcript. The rest is in the course, synced to the video.
Italien, we said, was Italy in Swedish. So let's see if we can try to maybe group certain countries together to try to figure out how to pronounce the names of those countries in Swedish. Because, you often, if you're not familiar with this in different languages, you would say the name of a country in a different way, sometimes that is even different than how the people in that country pronounce it. So, for example, in Japan, they don't say Japan to describe their own country.
They would say Nihon, which is a completely different word than Japan. Same thing with Germany in English, which would be Deutschland in their language. So essentially sometimes it corresponds, and sometimes it does not. So we're going to basically try to look at a couple of countries.
We can, of course, not cover all countries, but we'll cover a few countries and see if we can find certain patterns in terms of how
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.