Swedish Nouns

Welcome to the third Swedish lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed by grammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in Swedish to help you practice your daily phrases.

potatoes potatisar

tomatoes tomater

onions lökar

carrots morötter

fruits frukter

apples äpplen

bananas bananer

oranges apelsiner

Nouns Grammar Rules

In general nouns refer to a person, an object, or abstract ideas. For example: a fast runner the noun is [runner] because it refers to a person. The examples below use nouns in different ways and places to demonstrate how they behave in a sentence.

Grammar + Rules - Swedish
do you have milk? [verb + noun] har du mjölk?
I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] jag har mjölk och kaffe
he has three apples [number + plural noun] han har tre äpplen
she only has one apple [number + singular noun] hon har bara ett äpple
we live in a small house [adjective + noun] vi bor i ett litet hus
I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] jag gillar vår frukost

The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.

bread bröd

milk mjölk

butter smör

cheese ost

coffee kaffe

sandwich smörgås

meat kött

chicken kyckling

fish fisk

breakfast frukost

lunch lunch

dinner middag

Conversation in Swedish

Now we finally reach the fun part, the practice of the daily conversations. These phrases are used to get to know new people, and break the ice.

English - Swedish
Do you speak (English/ Swedish)? talar du (engelska/svenska)?
Just a little bara lite
I like Swedish jag tycker om svenska
Can I practice with you? kan jag öva med dig?
How old are you? hur gammal är du?
I'm thirty three years old jag är trettiotre år
It was nice talking to you det var trevligt att prata med dig!

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