"Finns det fortfarande vikingar i Sverige?"
Translation:Are there still Vikings in Sweden?
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It's true... I can prove it; story: my family lived in Sweden for a year, when I was young. No trouble. We got on the ferry. We arrived in Denmark. We were not in Denmark three hours before my mum was punched in the face by a Viking (well, he had a Metallica T-shirt on and was about 6'6", drunk, and shouting upwards). The police shrugged their shoulders, which I supposed to mean "... bah, happens all the time."
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Yes, I been learning Danish for many years now. It is not too hard to pick up Swedish because so much vocabulary and grammar is the same. What's most difficult is remembering the words that are almost the same in both languages but spelled with a few different letters. I will understand them if I hear or see them but remembering the spelling is a challenge. I'm almost done with the Swedish tree and now when I watch Swedish TV I understand a lot more. I may try a novel when I have time.
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is that a good way to learn better? listen or read the language you're learning?
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Absolut!, as I heard the Swedes say many times when I was there in summer. :)
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Is there a more literal translation of fortfarande?
Like how garderob would literally be something like "keep-robes", but it really means closet
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att fortfara is an old verb that means to continue (nowadays we say fortsätta instead). att fara means to travel but can sometimes have a much more general meaning in composite words, compare how go is sometimes used in a lot of senses in English; fort comes from an old word with the meaning forward, same as in English go forth; so fortfarande is composed like forth-going, except it has a different meaning.
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Brilliant answer. This kind of stuff is fascinating to me. Tack Arnauti!
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In case you're still interessted: I see you're learning German as well: Fortwärhend is a pretty accurate translation fo fortarande. It comes from fort and währen. Währen can be translated as "last" or "go on". If you want to say "please continue" in German, you'd say "fahr fort".
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I see, in the "fara" part, a latin contamination with the verb "fero"="carry", in a sort of carry-forward.
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Well if you can't find any in Sverige, there's plenty in Middlesbrough.
