"Salt och peppar"

Translation: Salt and pepper

[TrueCB]

Och sound so much like 'or' and that throws me off

[Zylbath]

If you know the English word 'eke' (also) you have a good equivalent to the Swedish one with a similar meaning. (They go back to the same etymological root.)

[MeleeNess23]

I honestly never knew that eke was an English word and that it also (no pun intended) links to och, that's pretty interesting!

[MarkBorkBorkBork]

Sure you have heard to eke out before, no?

[MeleeNess23]

Probably, but I didn't think about that when I was writing the comment.

[Fred-3-CMY]

German "auch" must be related to "och", too. Same meaning: "also".

[IvanM635328]

The same problem i found with the way it sounds dofferent from the original sound am used to

[assantium]

Is salt pronounced the same as it is in English?

[Anass90]

Not really, you can listen to the pronunciation here: http://forvo.com/word/salt/#sv

[TedMaher]

It would make a nice pub name.

[TomMiddle]

So is this pepper like bell peppers, or as in black pepper/peppercorns?

[hardcoretomas]

Black pepper, like salt & pepper

[Piperlikes]

what is a bell pepper type pepper?

[Arnauti]

In Swedish, it's en paprika. See images here: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika

[Stuart657246]

In some exercises I can hear 'och' sound like the och in loch, and other times with a softer 'oh'/'or' sound. Is there a rule to that or is it just speech/dialect quirks?

[EGull91]

When we enunciate och sounds like åck (like in loch, I think), when we speak normally it usually sounds more like åh (loch without the k sound at the end).

[I.GERMAN.KID]

It is the same!?