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    Say It in Swedish (Revised)
    Say It in Swedish (Revised)
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    Contains over 1,000 useful sentences and phrases for travel or everyday living abroad: food, shopping, medical aid, courtesy, hotels, travel, and other situations. Gives the English phrase, the foreign equivalent, and a transliteration that can be read right off. Also includes many supplementary lists, signs, and aids. All words are indexed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateApr 11, 2013
    ISBN9780486140827
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      Say It in Swedish (Revised) - Dover

      SAY IT IN

      SWEDISH

      by Kerstin Norris

      Revised and Enlarged Edition

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

      New York

      The Dover Say It series is prepared under the editorial supervision of Nancy D. Gross.

      Copyright © 1979 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.

      Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario.

      Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Ltd.

      This Dover edition, first published in 1979, is a completely revised and enlarged work which supercedes the book of the same title originally published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1954.

      International Standard Book Number: 0-486-20812-5

      Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 72-94755

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc.

      180 Varick Street

      New York, N.Y. 10014

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Pronunciation

      Everyday Phrases

      Social Phrases

      Basic Questions

      Talking about Yourself

      Making Yourself Understood

      Difficulties and Misunderstandings

      Customs

      Baggage

      Travel Directions

      Boat

      Airplane

      Train

      Bus and Subway

      Taxi

      Renting Autos and Other Vehicles

      Auto: Directions

      Auto: Help on the Road

      Auto: Gas Station and Repair Shop

      Parts of the Car and Auto Equipment

      Mail

      Telegram

      Telephone

      Hotel

      Chambermaid

      Renting an Apartment

      Apartment: Useful Words

      Bar

      Restaurant

      Food Seasoning

      Beverages and Breakfast Foods

      Soups and Salads

      Meats

      Poultry and Game

      Fish and Seafood

      Vegetables

      Starches

      Fruits and Berries

      Cheese and Dairy Products

      Desserts and Pastries

      Worship

      Sightseeing

      Entertainments

      Nightclub and Dancing

      Sports and Games

      Hiking and Camping

      Bank and Money

      Shopping

      Clothing and Accessories

      Colors

      Materials

      Bookshop, Stationer, Newsdealer

      Pharmacy

      Drugstore Items

      Camera Shop and Photography

      Gift and Souvenir List

      Cigar Store

      Laundry and Dry Cleaning

      Repairs and Adjustments

      Barber Shop

      Beauty Parlor

      Stores and Services

      Baby Care

      Health and Illness

      Ailments

      Dentist

      Accidents

      Parts of the Body

      Time

      Days of the Week

      Holidays

      Dates, Months and Seasons

      Weather

      Numbers: Cardinals

      Numbers: Ordinals

      Quantities

      Family

      Common Signs and Public Notices

      Common Road Signs

      Index

      INTRODUCTION

      Say It in Swedish is based on the language spoken in Sweden, which has evolved as a distinct language over the last 1000 years. In the Middle Ages, communities of Swedish speakers extended over the Baltic region, Scandinavia and parts of Russia. Modern Swedish is spoken by approximately 8,000,000 people in Sweden. In Finland, about 350,000 people (7% of the population) claim to be native speakers of Swedish. There is also a substantial community of Swedish-Americans, located primarily in the northern Midwest, among whom the Swedish language is still in use.

      NOTES ON THE USE OF THIS BOOK

      This book is divided into sections according to the various topics and situations encountered by the traveler. A number of sections are composed mainly or entirely of lists of nouns, which in Swedish are either definite or indefinite, neuter or non-neuter. It is not the purpose of the present book to explain the points of Swedish grammar. But it may be helpful to include here the most common articles. The indefinite non-neuter article is en; it is used as a separate word before the noun. The indefinite neuter article is ett. Definite articles occur as suffixes to the noun. The non-neuter ending is -(e)n; the neuter form is -(e)t. As long as you use nouns in combination with the proper endings or articles given in the book, this should cause you no trouble.

      While most sections of this book are alphabetized according to the English words, some lists of terms that occur often in everyday situations (food, public notices, etc.) are alphabetized according to the Swedish to allow for quick and easy reference. In addition, the index forms an instant English-Swedish glossary of terms helpful to travelers and it can refer the user to the necessary consecutively numbered entry immediately.

      The material in this book has been selected chiefly to teach you many essential phrases, sentences and questions for travel. It will serve as a direct and interesting introduction to the spoken language if you are beginning your study. The sentences will be useful to you whether or not you go on to further study. With the aid of a dictionary, many sentence patterns included here will answer innumerable needs, for example: She has lost [her handbag]. The brackets indicate that substitutions can be made for these words with the use of a bilingual dictionary. In other sentences, for the words in square brackets you can substitute the words immediately following (in the same sentence or in the indented entries below it). For example, the entry

      Turn [left][right] at the next corner.

      provides two sentences: Turn left at the next corner and Turn right at the next corner. Three sentences are provided by the entry

      Give me a seat [on the aisle].

      —by a window.

      —by the emergency exit.

      As your Swedish vocabulary grows, you will find that you can express an increasingly wide range of thoughts by the proper substitution of words in these model sentences.

      Please note that whereas brackets always indicate the possibility of substitutions, parentheses have been used to indicate synonyms or alternative usage for an entry, such as:

      Hello (OR: Hi).

      In this case, the alternative usage is preceded by (OR:).

      Parentheses may also be used to indicate different forms of the same word which vary according to number or gender where relevant, as in

      Welcome.

      Välkommen (TO PLURAL: Välkomna).

      When a phrase is directed to more than one person, (TO PLURAL:) precedes it.

      When there is a different form for male and female, the words are shown thus:

      The cashier.

      [(M.): Kassören] [(F.) Kassörskan].

      Occasionally, parentheses are used to clarify a word or to explain some nuance of meaning that may be implicit or understood in either the English or the Swedish phrase. The abbreviation (LIT.) is used whenever a literal translation of a Swedish phrase or sentence is supplied.

      You will notice that the word please has been omitted from many of the English sentences. This was done merely to make them shorter and clearer, and to avoid repetition. To be polite, however, you should use equivalents for please as given in the footnote on page 1 and in the Swedish phrases.

      You will find the extensive index at the end of the book especially helpful. Capitalized items in the index refer to section headings and give the number of the page on which the section begins. All other numbers refer to entry numbers. All the entries in the book are numbered consecutively. With the aid of the index, you will find many words and phrases at a glance.

      PRONUNCIATION

      We have supplied an explanatory chart of the simplified phonetic transcription used in this book to aid you in correct pronunciation. Read over the notes carefully so you may become familiar with the transcription system. In Swedish, the distinction between long and short vowels is quite important. Long vowels have been marked in our transcription by a colon added after the vowel sign (a:, i:). However, in many short common words (e.g., har, i, var, hur, nu, få, gå) the vowel is basically long, but may be shortened in rapid conversational speech. These vowels are marked as long in our transcription.

      Most Swedish consonants have similar counterparts in English. Those that do not or differ significantly are explained in the notes. In everyday speech certain consonants are often silent in given situations. These are indicated by parentheses when the pronunciation is optional, e.g. God dag goo DA: (G).

      As in English, Swedish words have a strong syllabic stress. In our transcription system, syllables of polysyllabic words are separated by hyphens, with the stressed syllable(s) always printed in capital letters. A different placement of the stress may indicate a difference in the meanings of two words otherwise similarly pronounced. For instance, the Swedish kaffe (the stress is on the first syllable) means coffee (pronounced KA-f ), whereas the Swedish word kafé (the stress is on the second syllable) means coffee house (pronounced ka-FE:). Compare this, for example, with the two pronunciations of the English word convict when it is a noun and when it is a verb.

      In most purely Swedish words, the stress falls on the first syllable. As in English, the other syllables may either be completely unstressed or may have a secondary stress (in English, compare the second syllables of lighter and lighthouse). In Swedish, however, secondary stress is generally much stronger than in English, and hardly distinguishable from the main stress. Therefore, many Swedish polysyllabic words have been transcribed here with two syllables in capital letters. In these cases, noticeable stress is to be placed on both the capitalized syllables. Examples:

      flickvän (pron. FLIK-VÄN)—

      compare Eng. zigzag

      välkommen (pron. VÄL-KO-m n)—

      compare Eng. dumbfounded

      nödutgången (pron. NÖ: D-u:t-GONG- n)—

      compare Eng. heavyhearted

      An attempt has also been made in our transcription to show the varying stress-weights that words carry within a given phrase. For that reason even monosyllables may be printed in capital letters. Examples: kom med mig is transcribed kom MÄ: mäy; det här (meaning this) is transcribed as de: HÄ: R when it is used pronominally, and as de:hä:r when used adjectivally:

      har Ni det här? (do you have this?)—

      ha:r ni: de: HÄ:R?

      det här köpkortet (this credit card)—

      de: hä: r CHÖ: P-KOOR-t t

      You will find these distinctions very useful in making yourself understood. Compare the strong stress given to certain monosyllables in the English phrases what is it? and so what? which become meaningless if the stress is displaced.

      For similar reasons, our transcription sometimes shows no stress (no capitalized syllable) for some polysyllabic words because they are completely unstressed within the entire phrase in which they are contained or have equal stress in isolation.

      Swedish also has word tones, a linguistic feature unknown in English. Our transcription makes no reference to this feature, which is not indicated in Swedish spelling, can only be learned

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