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- "Det är sorgligt för oss."
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So I thought since sorg was "sorrow" I translated sorgligt as "sorrowful"... not good?
Can 'ledsen' be used instead of 'sorglig' here, or is it used for people only?
Tack! (So far I've gathered three words for 'sad': Ledsam, sorglig och vemodig)
And when you master their respective nuances, you've come quite far! :D Vemodig has sometimes been suggested as an example of a word really hard to translate properly and still catch all its meaning.
I checked 'vemodig' and my dictionary gave 'längtande' as its synonym. That sounds like 'yearning', a sense of 'nostalgia' (and a perfect translation for Finnish 'kaihoisa'), but I have no idea if 'vemodig' means the same.
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Yes, feeling blue is a very similar feeling to vemod, but there is often a nuance of regret, longing or nostalgia in it too. Literally, vemod means woe mood. The sort of mood when you'd say woe in old English.
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The closest I can think of is melancholy. A sad yearning or longing, usually for an unattainable element or experience in the past. It is more nuanced than that so it is flexible to fit a range of moods.
Is sorgligt an adjective (in neuter form) here, or an adverb associated with 'being', i.e. it is, sadly, for us... ?
I assume he didn't like the "that", as there is nothing in the sentence that indicates a "that".
"sorgligt" almost sounds like 3 syllables in the audio.. is that how it should be said?
Yes. The "G" is pronounced more like an English "Y" ie almost like sorry-lit... that is a very coarse description though and not the right pronunciation, more a demonstration of the structure of the word.
