Swedish vocabulary for family members
What the lesson covers
The lesson covered the strategy of breaking down words to understand their meaning, exemplified by "trädgård" (tree yard) and "kindergarten" (children garden). It then introduced Swedish vocabulary related to family, including "barn" (child), "son" (son), and "dotter" (daughter), along with the number "två" (two). The lesson also focused on practical phrases, location vocabulary like "kontor" (office), and verbs such as "träffa" (to meet) and "se" (to see), discussing the common usage of prepositions like "på" (at) versus "i" (in) for locations. Finally, it reinforced sentence construction with new vocabulary and briefly mentioned flexibility in word order.
Vocabulary in this lesson
43 words. Inside Lingolib each one is tappable in the transcript and saved to your library with one tap.
- barn
- child
- dig
- you (object)
- dotter
- daughter
- du
- you
- eller
- or
- en
- a/an (common gender)
- flera
- several
- gillar
- like
- gård
- yard
- han
- he
- har
- Have
- hatar
- hate
- henne
- her
- hon
- She
- honom
- him
- här
- here
- imorgon
- tomorrow
- inte
- not
- jag
- I
- kan
- can / to be able to
- kontor
- office
- kontoret
- the office
- men
- but
- min
- My
- mitt
- my
- många
- many
- möta
- meet
- nej
- no
- nu
- now
- på
- at
- restaurang
- restaurant
- se
- see
- son
- son
- tid
- time
- tillsammans
- together
- tre
- three
- träd
- tree
- trädgård
- garden
- träffa
- meet
- två
- two
- vi
- We
- vill
- want / wants
- är
- am / is / are
How the lesson starts
The opening of the lesson transcript. The rest is in the course, synced to the video.
Let's talk about your kids, or let's see if we can help you describe how many kids you have, and so forth. We also want to talk about how to break apart words to understand what they mean. Meaning sometimes you can actually break up a word and see if it has different parts, and if you can understand the different parts, you can understand what that new word is, even though you haven't heard it before.
Just like we talked about earlier, where we had this exercise where you could try to identify words by breaking them up. So let's see if we can do some more of that. In English, the word "garden", "garden", becomes trädgård.
Literally trädgård, trädgård.
Träd is tree in Swedish, and gård, gård, is yard.
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.