Swedish object pronouns: honom and henne

Okay, so always repeat always repeat is one of our rules. So, we're going to repeat the pronouns very quickly because that's how you truly learn. It's not by swallowing a lot of words, it's by repeating carefully and meticulously. So, how do you say my?

min or mitt.

So, do you remember how to say your your?

din or you can say ditt depending on ett or en.

What about his his or her?

hans hennes.

Its, which we haven't used as much because it's obviously not as common, dess dess. For instance, its effect would be dess effekt.

Your for a group of people, how would you say that?

er or ert.

er or ert depending on en or ett.

What about their for a group of people?

deras.

And finally our our? vår or vårt.

Okay, so what was the word in Swedish if you want to talk about a book? Almost exactly the same.

en bok. And we said if you're unsure if it's en or ett, you always go for en. Most of the words tend to have this beginning, en To say "give", as in "I give", in Swedish, you would say jag ger, ger.

So, to give is att ge. Att ge, to give. Jag ger. And the same for han, hon, and so forth. Hon ger, han ger, de ger. So, jag ger, I give.

What about "I give it"?

Jag ger den or det. Jag ger det, jag ger den. So it's depending on the sentence structure. We'll talk about that more in-depth later on.

To say "to him" or "to her", you would say till, till.

And "him" is honom.

So, "I give it to him".

Jag ger den till honom. "I give it", jag ger den.

So, "I give it to him". So we're not saying "to he", we're saying "to him", just like in English, it's changing. And the reason that it is changing is because this word is now an object. So when I say "I give it to him", I'm giving it to someone.

Jag ger den till honom. So as soon as you say "to him", "for him", "by him", then you would need to use in Swedish honom.

So "we give it to him", how would you say that?

Vi ger den till honom.

What about "They give it to him"?

De ger den till honom. Okay. So, "I give it to her." If you want to say "her", you would say "henne". So how would you say, "I give it to her"?

Jag ger den till henne. "We give it to her", how would you say that? "We give it to her." Vi ger den till henne. What about "He gives it to me"? "He gives it to me".

And to say "me", you would say "mig", "mig".

Han ger den till mig. And it's spelled "mig" but it's pronounced "mej". "He gives it to you." Now this is related to "mig". But when you want to say, "He gives it to you", you can't say "you" in Swedish. You have to use another word because it's in an object state.

You're giving it to someone. So you have to say "dig". "He gives it to you." What does that become if you use the word "dig" to say "you"?

Han ger den till dig. Han ger den till dig.

What about "They give it to us"?

"us" So to say "us", you would say "oss", "oss".

So how do you say, "They give it to us"?

De ger den till oss. What about "I give it to them"?

So "I give it to them", "them". And to say "them" in Swedish you would say "dem", "dem". And of course what does that remind you of? "Dem". Well, it's the same word for saying "they", right?

"They", de. However it's spelt differently. So how would you then say "I give it to them"? Jag ger den till dem.

"They" is de, so, and "them" is also dem. However, notice that it's spelt differently. Before we had d-e for "they", but when we're saying "them" we spell it "dem". But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret.

A lot of Swedish people, and I mean a lot of Swedish people, don't know the difference when you're supposed to write d-e-m and when you're supposed to write d-e. And that's why people nowadays tend to use the easier option of writing dom, d-o-m, the way that you always pronounce it.

So I wouldn't worry too much about this because my rule has always been if the people who speak the language natively, if they're struggling with something and nobody thinks of it as anything odd, we shouldn't, I believe, carry that burden to people who are studying the language. But then again, it's always good to point out what is considered formal and what is considered the proper form.