Swedish verbs of position: ligger, står

Okay, so how do you say: "I'm lying here. I am lying here." So, to say "lying", you would say: ligger, ligger.

Jag ligger här. Jag ligger här. So if you're lying on the floor, you would say: Jag ligger här. So how do you say: "It is lying on the table. It's lying on the table." And we said the table we got this from smörgåsbord, right?

So bord, bord, ett bord. So how do you say: "It is lying on the table"?

Den ligger på bordet.

Talk about den, because it's a very specific object, could be also det depending on the context, but for generally speaking about a specific object, you would probably use den.

"The phone lies on the table. The phone lies on the table." Telefonen ligger på bordet, or mobilen ligger på bordet, if you're talking about a mobile phone.

"It lies in the car." den ligger i bilen. It's a specific object, so it's probably better to go with den: den ligger i bilen.

"He lies under the table. Under." Han ligger under bordet. So "lies" is ligger; under, under.

What about: "She stands over us"? And to say "stands", you would say står, står.

Hon står över oss. She stands over us. Hon står över oss.

So what's the name or the word to say eat, to eat?

Att äta.

So how do you ask do you eat insects?

Okay, so eat was äta. So do you eat? Äter du for one person, äter ni for many people. So äter du, and then you have to sort of guess the plural.

So studenter, doktorer, we had that before, right? For plural. So äter du insekter, insekter. That's the word to say insects.

So to say only in Swedish, there are different words for it, but perhaps the most common one is bara, bara. How do you say, "No, I only eat food" and use bara instead of only?

Nej, jag äter bara mat. A more formal way to say it would be enbart. Enbart would also be only, solely.

Which project is yours?

So to say which in Swedish, you would say vilket or vilken depending on en or ett. In this case we have ett projekt, so it should be vilket, vilket. So how do you say which project is yours?

Vilket projekt är ditt? I am not a perfect person. And to say person you would say person. It's spelled the same way, but the r and the s, as we said before, they give you sort of a shushing sound.

So as soon as you see the r and the s, you can sort of assume that perhaps it's going to shush, so you get person, person, -son. And it's a very sort of a soft type of sh sound when you're shushing. Person.

Person, you can also say människa, människa, and that means a human being, människa. But let's work with person here now, person, because it's spelled the same. So, "I am not a perfect person," how do you say that?

Jag är inte en perfekt person. Jag är inte en perfekt person.

So, how do you say, "Can you and Mike present our project?" Kan du och Mike presentera vårt projekt?

So, not vår projekt, but vårt projekt. And the r and the t give you this hard sound of vårt, vårt projekt, because you have ett projekt.

So to say "live," live, as in "I live," in Swedish, you would say att leva, leva.

And if you want to change it, you would say lever in the present form, so "I live": jag lever. So, you can quickly give me the remaining ones: "you live": du lever, "he lives": han lever, "she lives": hon lever, and all of the other ones.

Den, det lever, ni lever. De lever, vi lever.

So, what was the word to say "eat" again? att äta Why don't they eat insects?

Varför äter de inte insekter? And of course you can switch the "inte" so have it before the "de" as well. Varför äter inte de insekter?

"Do you want to live in a perfect world?" So "world" is värld, värld. So how do you say that: "Do you want to live in a perfect world?" Vill du leva? Because "to live" was att leva. Vill du leva i en perfekt värld?

"Why don't you want to live in a perfect world?" "Why don't you want to live in a perfect world?" Varför vill du inte leva i en perfekt värld? or Varför vill inte du leva i en perfekt värld?

"We need to have respect." Need. So do you remember the word for "need"?

att behöva You can think about "behoves" if it helps. "We need to have respect." How do you say that?

Vi behöver ha respekt. Vi behöver ha respekt. You will probably hear "show respect". "We need to show respect": visa respekt. But grammatically it's fine. "We need to have respect": Vi behöver ha respekt.