"Good morning and welcome!"
Translation:God morgon och välkommen!
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I enjoy these multiple-choice questions because I often laugh at the wrong answers! "Good morning water welcome" is my favorite so far. It's just so...absurd!
Both versions are correct. (source: the language council, and many others). The version written together is actually more frequent if you look at corpora.
Bra is more frequently used. God/gott is used for greetings, to describe tasty food (maten var god), and to describe someone who is really righteous. There may be others I'm not thinking about at the moment.
Good question. I have never heard or said it with the "g". My guess is it gets drowned out in normal speech.
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Quite so. If we try to pronounce it really clearly, the 'g' will be heard. But in everyday, fast speech, it is 'drowned', disappering, the 'r' sounding more like double 'rr' instead (= morron). /or rather: mårrån/
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G is 'hard' as in 'gå', since it comes before the hard vowel o. AOUÅ are hard vowels, and EIYÄÖ are soft vowels, softening the hard consonants.
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You mean my 'Swedish mispelling'? I have correted it now. I think German use 'w', but in Swedish it is 'vill'
You're right! Morrow and morgon come from the same Germanic root! In fact, morning also cones from the same root. In many Germanic languages morrow is used to mean both "tomorrow" and "morning" but English took "morn" and pattern matched it to "evening" to mean "morning" and began using "tomorrow" to mean the next day, much as Swedish uses "imorgon". For comparison: English - good morning Swedish - god morgon German - gut(en) Morgen [g pronounced]
English - I'll come tomorrow Swedish - Jag kommer imorgon German - Ich komme morgen
All very similar. Cool, no?
Just wondering, would it be okay to write "välkommen" as "vaelkommen?" I know that in German you can substitute a vowel with an umlaut for that vowel with an e after it, and I'm wondering as to whether or not that carries over into Swedish and any other languages, for that matter. Thanks!
You can write valkommen and it will be marked as a typo but you will get away with it. I doubt vaelkommen would work but you can try it and report back. :)
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"Välkommen" is said to one person, "Välkomna" is plural, said to more than one person, If you are talking about something, a noun in neuter (det), that you have longed for and now have reached you, it is now "välkommet", you might exclaim: "Det var ett välkommet förslag!" (look at the spelling: -mm- (between vowels), but only one M before N -mna = plural)
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Yes, it can be an imperative, asking someone to greet someone, as well as being the greeting itself: "Välkomna till mitt hem! Kom in!"
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I was wondering the same thing. Seems like the former is more for acknowledging thanks and the latter more for welcoming someone e.g. on arrival? Can anyone confirm if that is right?
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Yes, the 'g' is dropped, so it becames softer, with only 'r' or a slightly longer R-sound. It actually sounds very dated, to pronounce the 'g' here, you hear it in old movies, or from very energetic people, ;-)
"Välkomna" is pluralis, so it should be marked as correct since the English translation could be either.
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Välkommen = Welcome, is the way you are greeting your guests at the door, inviting them. "Var så god!" is when you give someone something, e.g. inviting your guests to eat (Bonne apetite!) , or give them a present etc.
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"Var så god!" can be "Here you are" if you give something to someone, or can be "Bon appetit"/"Enjoy your meal" or even the "After you Sir/Ma'am". "Välkommen" is "Welcome"
Hey um i clicked the word that means welcome but it said valkommen was correct...
Is it just me or does it still say correct answer and still makes me lose a life even though I typed it in correct
GOD MORGONIS LIKE GOOD MORNING OCH ALWAYS WANT TO BE IN THE SWEDISH WORDS I THINK SO IF YOU THING SO TELL MY NAME IS SARA AND I AM 6 YEARS OLD
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Only if used as an adjective together with an ett-noun ( the only example I can think of right now is: "ett välkommet budskap", "ett välkommet brev")
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In this case you must mean the difference between 'long vowel' vs 'short vowel'. Usually the vowel is long in a syllable if followed by only one consonant (God , Väl), but usually short if followed by two or more consonants (morg-, komm-). I mean, each syllable is built around a vowel, with one or more konsonants.
Välkommen = Welcome (when you're welcoming someone into your home, for example)
Varsågod = Here you go / You're welcome (as a response to "thank you")