The Swedish relative pronoun som

So once again, the word "to buy" in Swedish?

att köpa What about "he buys a car"?

Han köper en bil.

"The car is big." To say "big" in Swedish you would say "stor", "stor". And or it could actually be "stort" and you add on -t, and of course that depends on if it's "en" or "ett". But for now, we know "car" is "en bil", so we were going to use "stor". How do you say "the car is big"?

Bilen är stor.

What about "he buys a car that is big"? So to say "that is big", where we're using "that" as a way of connecting a sentence, basically we're saying: he buys a car, the car is big. It's two sentences. But what we did we connected, we connected these sentences using "that". In Swedish you would use "som", "som".

So when you're talking about "that" in terms of connecting sentences, then you would use "som". So how do you say: he buys a car that is big?

Han köper en bil som är stor. Han köper en bil som är stor.

So "som", it could take on the meaning of "that", or "which", or "who". So in a sense it's easier than English because you have all of these different variants: "I met the guy who did..." la la la". In Swedish you would say "som". The same thing with "which" and "that".

So in all those cases when you're connecting sentences, not when you have "who" like in the beginning of a sentence and you're trying to say "who is this person"? You'd use "vem" because it's used as a question. I'm talking about "who" when you have it in the middle of a sentence and you're connecting it. "I met the man who had helped me before". In that sentence we're using "who" not as a question, but in order to connect sentences.

So in Swedish, when you want to connect those sentences, you would use som. So, for instance, how would you then say: "Adam has a brother who is here"? Adam har en bror som är här. And you could say broder, but it's considered more old-fashioned.

Adam har en bror som är här. How did you say "child" in Swedish, "a child"?

Ett barn.

"I have a child that is five years", meaning, "I have a child that's five years old", but you don't need the "old" part, so, "I have a child that's five years". And to say "five", you would say fem, fem.

Jag har ett barn som är fem år. And if you want to say "old", you can add it on, is gammal, fem år gammal. "The food which he ate". How would you say that? "The food which he ate". Maten som han åt.

Maten som han åt. The food which he ate.

"The car which she bought". So, to say "bought", it's the past of köpa. So, it's köpte, köpte.

So, how would you say, "the car which she bought"?

Bilen som hon köpte.

"The cars which we bought". So, to say "the cars", bilar, that's "cars", "the cars", bilarna. So the whole sentence, bilarna som vi köpte. And the R sort of falls off, so what you hear is "bilarna som vi köpte.

What was the word for "table"? We actually had this before. We talked about it when you had smorgasbord. So how do you say a table in Swedish?

ett bord, ett bord and you can think about smörgåsbord, which was of course a table with sandwiches, meaning a table where you serve different dishes.

How do you say "on" in Swedish?

på So, to say "it lies on the table", meaning it's on the table, in Swedish you would use "lies". It's very common for things and for people. So "it's lying on the table" is what you would say. You wouldn't really say "it's on the table".

Now, if you were to say it is on the table, that's also fine, it's understandable and it's not really that problematic, but the most correct way to say it or the most common way to say it would be "lies". How do you say "it lies on the table" using ligger to mean "lies", ligger?

Den ligger på bordet. And I use den here because we're talking about an object, so it feels more proper to use den. Den ligger på bordet.

What about "they are lying on the table"?

De ligger på bordet. And if you want, you could spell it d-o-m as well. That's perfectly fine. De ligger på bordet.

What about "it lies under the table"?

Den ligger under bordet. So "under" was under, under. Same spelling, different pronunciation.

So how do you say "there's something under the table"? There is something under the table. And here, you need to think about this before you say something. "There is", there's a specific word for that in Swedish, and that's the word you need to use. finns, finns Det finns någonting under bordet.

So "something" was någonting or något, whichever one you prefer.