"Hennes handskar"

Translation: Her gloves

[HelenCarlsson]

FYI: Handskar is not correctly pronounced, it should be a "normal k" (like "c" in car). It is reported.

[ChloKokx]

It's fixed with new Computer Voice Lady(CVL).

[ChloKokx]

TTS is the actual term.

[ChloKokx]

Text To Speech... Why are people downvpoting this?

[David7697]

I don't know, I think "computer voice lady" sounds more professional. :)

[MauriceReeves]

Doesn't that depend on the dialect? It seems like the more I read about Swedish, the more the pronunciation varies widely by area.

[HelenCarlsson]

Oh yes, generally the pronounciation varies between regions, but not for "sk" in handskar.

[SueH8]

How does one know whether to pronounce sk as “normal k” versus “sh”?

[devalanteriel]

Hard prior to a, o, u, å. Soft prior to e, i, y, ä, ö.

[amuzulo]

I know in German that glove is "Handschuh" (literally hand shoe), does "kar" or "skar" mean something in Swedish? :)

[Delstein]

Ich bin auch Deutschlerner :)

Anyway, I think, and this is just a guess, that "skar" would be derived from "sko," or "shoe" so it might be the same formation as in German, but it's just a guess.

[cvictoria42]

According to Wiktionary, it's a loan from Middle Low German http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/handske#Etymology_2 so related to the modern German form

[Astronomy487]

Just one more lesson, and then I'll my homework.

EDIT: No way. Doing this till 3AM.

[Namor_Votilav]

How do yoi say mittens?

[HelenCarlsson]

It's "vantar", en vante - flera vantar.

[Namor_Votilav]

Tack så mycket!

[Kapuseta]

Huh. The Finnish word for gloves is hanska/hanskat. Now I know where that came from.

[JamesTWils]

How would one say "her glove"?

[HelenCarlsson]

Hennes handske.

[JamesTWils]

Oh, of course. I'm afraid I have come back to this after several weeks' break.

[Joanna206]

Is it an "en" or an "ett" word?

[HelenCarlsson]

en handske - handsken
flera handskar - handskarna
(compare to pojke -boy)

[Joanna206]

I found it in the meantime, but thank you nonetheless! :)

[Etlas]

Why not hons handskar?

[Zmrzlina]

"Hons" just isn't the possessive pronoun, it's "hennes".

[Etlas]

Yeeeah. I reread that this morning and realized what a silly question it was.
Thank you!

[OwenLegend1]

I remember handksar means gloves, cause it like hand-scarf!

[devalanteriel]

It's from the German words from "hand" + "shoe", actually.

[AmrM.AbdElHady92]

I always get confused between Handske and halsduk for some reason.

[FranziskaG318386]

I always want to translate it as handshoe (like Handschuh in German)

[devalanteriel]

... or like handske in Swedish. The modern words are hand + sko. :)

By the way, Old English actually had a cognate Handscio, but it is only attested as a name.

[Hugo933433]

WHAT I GOT MIXED UP

[Hugo933433]

I DID HALSDUK