Swedish verbs for eat, want and can

Okay, so let's learn the word eat, to eat. To say this in Swedish you would say äta. Att äta. To use this in a sentence, to say, for instance, "I eat", you would say: jag äter.

Now, the thing about Swedish is of course it is going to be the same for all of the remaining ones. So, how would you say "you eat"?

Du äter. What about "he eats"?

Han äter. And "she eats"?

Hon äter.

What about "it eats"? And here there are two variants.

Den or det äter.

"You people eat"?

Ni äter. And "they eat"?

De äter. And finally, "we eat"?

Vi äter. Before we can start practicing some sentences, we need to practice one more verb. An important verb, and it's also, unfortunately, irregular. And that is the word "want". Att vilja. To want: att vilja.

Okay, so to say "I want", you would say: jag vill.

So in this case you don't have -ar or -er, instead it becomes "vill": jag vill. Okay, so to say "you want"? Du vill. And of course the remaining ones are: "he wants" - han vill, "she wants" - hon vill, "it wants" - den or det vill, "you people want" - ni vill, "they want" - de vill, and "we want" - vi vill.

So, do you remember the word to say "to be able to"? literally to can. You can't say this in English, but in Swedish you sort of can.

Att kunna. And when you change this verb, it becomes something different. So how would you say, "I can"?

So this is very similar to the English. All you have to do is switch the C for a K, so you get jag kan. I can. What about "you can"? Du kan.

He, she, it can? Han, hon, det kan. "You can"? Ni kan.

"They can"? De kan. "We can"? Vi kan.

Okay. So now we're ready to construct some sentences.

So to make a question in Swedish, all you have to do is switch up the order. Instead of saying, "I can", you would say, "Can I?" And, of course, this is exactly what you would do in English. So when you switch the order of the sentence, you get a question. So for instance, if you want to say, "I can eat", how would you say that in Swedish?

And remember that the word for "eat" is äta.

Jag kan äta. Very good. So "Jag kan äta." And it's important that it's äta, the dictionary form, because you have the kan in front of it. If you just say, "I eat", of course that would be "Jag äter". So if we make this into a question, "Can I eat?" How would you say that?

And it's the same order as in English. All you have to do is literally translate it word by word.

Kan jag äta? Kan jag äta? And that is a question.

Okay. So how do you say, "You can speak Swedish"?

And to say speak, you would say tala.

Du kan tala svenska.

What about can you speak Swedish?

Kan du tala svenska? So all you did was switch up the order. Du kan tala svenska. Switch it up so you have kan before the du. Kan du. Can you speak Swedish?

Don't you speak Swedish?

So if you've forgotten about this, it's completely fine, because we're going to practice it over and over again. To say don't, what you're saying is do not, you not. So once again, don't you speak Swedish?

Talar inte du svenska? And here we actually have an option. We could actually say talar du inte svenska and put it after the du, or we could put it before the du. So in this scenario Swedish is actually a bit more lenient than English. So for instance you can say talar inte du svenska, and you can also say talar du inte svenska.

But the inte has to be after the talar.

Why don't you speak Swedish? So to say why, you would say varför.

Varför.

So how would you say this knowing that why is varför? Why don't you speak Swedish?

Varför talar du inte svenska? And of course you could put the inte before the du, so you can say Varför talar inte du svenska? Why don't you speak Swedish?

Very judging question.