Swedish verbs hanterar and tar hand om
What the lesson covers
This lesson focused on how to discuss handling and managing situations in Swedish, primarily introducing the verbs "hanterar" (to handle/manage) and "tar hand om" (to take care of, literally "take hand about/of"). Students learned to form phrases such as "Jag hanterar" (I handle) and "Vi hanterar transporten" (We handle the transport), as well as "Vi tar hand om transporten" (We take care of the transport). Key vocabulary covered included "transport" (transport), "barn" (child/children, noting the same plural form), "maten" (the food), "dokumentationen" (the documentation), and "situationen" (the situation). The lesson also revisited "brukar" (to usually do) and its past tense "brukade" (used to), applying it to phrases like "Vi brukar hantera situationen" (We usually handle the situation) and "Hon brukade hantera situationen" (She used to handle the situation).
Vocabulary in this lesson
32 words. Inside Lingolib each one is tappable in the transcript and saved to your library with one tap.
- situationen
- the situation
- hanterar
- handles / manages
- transport
- Transport
- jag
- I
- vi
- We
- transporten
- the transport
- tar hand om
- take care of
- tar
- take (present tense)
- hand
- hand
- om
- about / of
- barn
- child / children
- ett
- a/an (neuter)
- flera
- several
- fyra
- four
- fem
- five
- ni
- You (plural)
- barnen
- the children
- du
- you (singular)
- maten
- the food
- de
- They
- dokumentationen
- the documentation
- bruka
- to usually do (infinitive)
- brukar
- usually do / does
- äta
- to eat / eat
- han
- He
- normalt
- normally
- hon
- She
- pengar
- money
- pengarna
- the money
- talade
- spoke
- pratade
- talked
- presenterade
- presented
How the lesson starts
The opening of the lesson transcript. The rest is in the course, synced to the video.
Let's talk about how to handle situations. How can we manage a situation in Swedish, or rather, how can we talk about managing a situation?
So, in order to begin, we first are going to go back memory lane, and we're going to repeat, as we always do. How do you say "transport" in Swedish?
Transport Of course, it's the same word, just pronounced differently. Now, to say "handle" or "manage", in Swedish, you would say hanterar. Jag hanterar would be "I handle".
"I handle" — jag hanterar. Seems to have something to do with hand,
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.