Swedish words for meals: frukost, lunch, middag
What the lesson covers
The lesson began by revisiting Swedish pronouns, explaining their usage based on gender, number, and whether they are reflexive, followed by a recap of "att äta" (to eat) and "mat" (food). The main focus then shifted to meal times, introducing "frukost" (breakfast), "lunch" (lunch), and "middag" (dinner), with brief etymological explanations for some terms. New vocabulary included "hungrig" (hungry) and "mätt" (full/satiated), emphasizing that "full" in Swedish means drunk. The lesson concluded with practical sentence constructions and conversational examples, incorporating phrases like "jag är hungrig" (I am hungry), "vad vill du äta?" (what do you want to eat?), and other useful verbs and nouns related to daily activities and shopping.
Vocabulary in this lesson
58 words. Inside Lingolib each one is tappable in the transcript and saved to your library with one tap.
- att äta
- to eat
- mat
- food
- min
- my
- bil
- car
- hans
- his
- hem
- home
- sitt
- his/its/her (reflexive)
- hennes
- her
- sin
- his/its/her (reflexive)
- dess
- its
- effekt
- effect
- ditt
- your
- barn
- child
- ert
- your (plural)
- er
- your (plural)
- ett
- a/an (neuter)
- hus
- house
- en
- a/an (common gender)
- deras
- their
- vår
- our
- värld
- world
- frukost
- breakfast
- kost
- meal / nourishment
- lunch
- lunch
- middag
- dinner
- mid
- mid
- dag
- day
- på svenska
- in Swedish
- hungrig
- hungry
- mätt
- full (satiated)
- full
- drunk
- jag
- I
- är
- am / is / are
- du
- you (singular)
- nej
- no
- inte
- not
- nu
- now
- vill
- want / wants
- kebab
- kebab
- med
- with
- mig
- me
- tror
- believe / think
- han
- he
- har
- have
- vi
- we
- hemma
- at home
- kan
- can / to be able to
- gå
- to go
- till
- to
- affären
- the store
- och
- and
- köpa
- to buy
- tid
- time
- måste
- must / have to
- kontoret
- the office
- arbete
- work
- som
- that / which
- göra
- to do / do
How the lesson starts
The opening of the lesson transcript. The rest is in the course, synced to the video.
And we're going to talk a little bit more about eating, specifically when you eat different times during the day like breakfast and lunch and dinner, and focus a little bit more on that topic. Before we can start, do you recall how to say to eat in Swedish?
att äta And, of course, food is mat. So, with that being said, we are ready to begin. First, I want to just do a short recap of the different pronouns that exist in Swedish. So to say, for example, "my" in Swedish, how would you say that? "My car"?
Min bil. Of course, en bil, so it becomes min bil.
His home?
hans hem is his home, or we said sitt hem if it's something that's referring back to that person.
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.