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tycker om is a particle verb meaning 'like'. In particle verbs, the particle, in this case om, is always stressed. The verb and particle work as a unit, but things like negations often tend to go between them. So it would be Jag tycker inte om en flicka if it were 'I don't like a girl'.
Read about tycker om vs tycker here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/5892480
Read about the verbs tycka, tänka, tro here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/5577824
It might not be correct or literal, but using the phrase "I think on a girl" helps me remember that it means "I like a girl", if only because "tycker om" vaguely resembles "think on".
If anyone still needs an answer for this, it is pretty much "i like about a girl"
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... looks left and right ... shut up jkjk ik i was just saying tht they r the gunar gang lol
Hi. I'm a Swedish beginner. I'm wondering how do you say "I don't like a girl" in Swedish? 1. Jag tycker inte om en flicka. 2. Jag tycker om inte en flicka. 3. else..
Will "tycker" always need the preposition "om" behind it? Like how the verb "gostar" in Portuguese needs the preposition "de" behind it?
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'om' is here a particle together with the verb to create the meaning 'like', and 'om' should have a stress in the pronounciation, which often is not present in the DuoLingo computer voice. 'Tycker' without particle means 'think', e.g. 'Vad tycker du?' (What do you think? as in having an opinion about something))
Thank you! That answered my question and an extra helpful tip as well. Have a lingot!
Wiktionary implies that "I think of a girl" is a legitimate translation here, but Duolingo marked me wrong. :/
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No, it is not a legitimate translation. 'Tycker om' in this sentence is about feelings you have, not 'thinking about'. You have to change the sentence, e.g. make it into a question, perhaps ask 'What do you think about this girl' = 'Vad tycker du om den flickan?', as a question about what your impressions is about a girl we have been speaking about earlier, presumably. And the answer might be 'I think she is rude' (Jag tycker att hon är ohövlig')
Thanks; that makes sense. I just wish we weren't presented translations with this level of nuance the first time a word is introduced. (I'd studied Swedish decades ago, but couldn't remember anything about "tycker om," so I looked it up when the sentence appeared. :/ )
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Yes, it can be frustrating many times, but we are learning by this 'trial and error' work. :-) By the way, "I think of a girl" = "Jag tänker på en flicka". Good luck!
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Swedish "tycka OM", is comparable to English 'like', depending on context you might like e.g. a book, strawberries, a friend, a situation, or a relationship. Though when it comes to love-relations it is a 'weak' expression.
You mentioning that it is a colloquial really helped push this meaning for me! It helped a lot, have a lingot!
Is there any section of this course which explains before you are tested? Discussion doesn't really help me when I haven't been introduced to the words or grammar. Am I missing something?
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- Jag tycker om en flicka = I like a girl
- Jag bryr mig om en flicka = I care about a girl
So is <om> necessary to completing the sentence when <tycker> is involved? Is it more of a contextual or formal reasoning for involving both words?
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'om' is necessary for expressing the meaning 'like', it is a particle verb Tycker+om. Without 'om' the verb 'tycker' gets a different meaning = think, my opinion is, etc
God kväll!!
I wonder if it has got the same meaning these two verbs: tycka om and älska. If I write:
Jag älskar dij
Jag tycker om dij
Have they the same meaning?
Tack sa mycket!!
P.D. Maybe that question hast just appeared, but I haven't found it.
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tycka+om = 'like'. Here it is a phrasal verb, so it gets its meaning from the combination. Here 'om' has no meaning on its own. In a subconscious psychological way the meaning is of course "have positive feelings for/think about* a person = like. (om = for/about)
So what if somebody ask me what I'm thinking about? I've need to use ticker om again? How to spot, am I talking about somebody I like or somebody that just in my mind right now? (srry for english, I still might be bad in this)
Interesting how this is synonymous with the Finnish verb tykätä, I wonder which language loaned this from which.
Other than the "have an opinion about" double meaning for "tycker om" that's already been discussed on this page, I think they're pretty much synonyms. "Tycker om" might be a tad stronger, but if it is I don't think it's enough to be relevant.
if you think of this as "i've taken a liking on the girl" then it's remarkably close to english.
I think that might be a large stretch for a simple idea
To my knowledge this rather directly translates to "I think upon/about a girl". I just remember 'if a swede likes something, they're always thinking about it'
I put in I like the girl instead of a girl,heh silly me! But they do mean basically the same thing,no?
"I like a girl with dark hair".
Girl(s) with dark hair are liked.
Vs
"I like the girl with dark hair".
That girl with dark hair is liked
how come 'om' makes up 'like' when on it's own it means 'it'? (according to duo dictionary)
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tycka om något = like something ('om' is here a verb particle) The preposition 'om' = about, around (short for 'omkring')
I don't understand why it is not "Jag tycker om flickan" [I like the girl (one particular] or "Jag tycker om flickor" [I like girls (in general)]. I like a girl just doesn't sound natural to me at all.
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All three sentences are natural, in their own context. The sentence to be translated is 'en flicka' = a girl. Probably the person has not yet revealed which girl. Love can be a sensitive subject, revealing just a little bit at a time.
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Difficult to explain with English, since English does not differentiate between different noun-groups. English have 'a' and 'an' because of pronunciation differences of the following noun. Swedish 'en' and 'ett' you have to learn by heart if the noun is an -en word or an -ett word. Some languages talk about masculine or feminine, French has 'un' or 'une', German has 'ein' or 'eine', Italian has 'uno' or 'una' etc
None of those examples work quite the same way. French and Italian are distinguishing masculine and feminine nouns. The example from German (much more closely related to Swedish) is of one indefinite article ("ein") used for both masculine and neuter nouns, and another ("eine") for feminine.
Yet Swedish (like Danish) uses one indefinite article for neuter nouns -- "ett" -- and has collapsed masculine and feminine nouns into a single "common" gender, which uses the article "en." That's why about three-quarters of Swedish nouns are "en" words, and if you have to guess you're much better off going with "en." :)
Ah, Duolingo actually projecting a little bit of the LGBT progressiveness of Sweden? Could it be?? I got the woman character for both this and the "Jag älskar en kvinna"
Could you use tycker om as 'think about'? Because when I got the matching assignment tycker was translated as think and om was translated to about.
It can in the sense of "have an opinion about", like "Vad tycker du om henne?" = "What do you think about her?" You can probably tell from context which meaning you're looking at. Also, the "like" meaning is pronounced with emphasis on the "om" while the "have opinion" meaning puts the emphasis on "tycker".
"tycker om" means "like". Both parts, verb and preposition, go together to form that meaning. Take away "om" and it means something else.
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