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Could someone give a context or two for this phrase? Where it is used and how?
So, plack pudding is common in Sweden too? Here in Ukraine we have it too, but we consider it is a type of sausage.
It can be a type of sausage here as well, but not necessarily. You hear both blodpudding and blodkorv. I think the sausage-type is more common in southern Sweden but I’m not sure.
That would make sense as it's also widespread in Germany. It's even proverbial - "Rache ist Blutwurst" for "revenge is sweet".
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A speciality in Tampere, Finland (where I once went for conference). "Mustamakkara" in Finnish.
jo means "yes", so that doesn't really make sense. Compare:
- Do you like black pudding?
- Yes I do, not really.
Yeah does not make sense, but in another lesson the question was in the negative. Förstår du inte? and the answer was "Jo, jag förstår" As in ...Don´t you understand? ...Yes, I don´t, I understand. The explanation was that "jo" actually refuted the negative question. So, if the question was: Gillar du inte svart pudding? Jo, inte särskilt! (Sorry, I can not find an apostrophe on this Swedish keyboard) May 8, I will be in Sweden again, and put my duolingo studying to the test with friends and family
Wow, and my formatting got lost when I entered this reply. I hope it is not as confusing as it looks!
Right, you can absolutely use jo in response to a negative question - that's its main point. It's the "not really" part that doesn't work in that context.
Re-recording
The voice is not quite perfect on this sentence, as of August 31st, 2017, so I've taken the liberty of re-recording it.
Usually in särskilt, the r is silent or at least very toned down. Pronouncing it as sär-skilt, like the voice does here, is not advisable.
Please find a correct recording on http://duolingo.vydea.io/b397c1e8424c43dda512368333090521.mp3
For more info on re-recordings, please check the info thread: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/23723515
Thanks for listening. Ha en bra dag! :)
Tack så mycket, Pingu! Muito Obrigada! hope someday you can teach us some penguinese :*
I noticed, also, in your recording the "sk" sound was ~ to my ears ~ more of a 'hw' and TTS lady sounded more like she usually does with 'fwh.' Is that a regional difference? Personal? I did distinctly hear the difference in 'r' pronunciation. What is unadvisable about pronouncing it the way she does? Just less understandable?
I think the TTS version is just a tiny glitch in the audio. Within Sweden, there isn't much variation in the sj-ljud o f e.g. särskilt.
So would särskilt by itself be translated to especially? Or could it mean "very" by itself?
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It could actually be both especially and specially when on its own, although specially wouldn't fit in this context as was pointed out before in the thread. I don't think it is ever used for very without a negation, I think that will only ever work when it's not very.
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väldigt = very, an adverb stressing another adverb or adjective, e.g. väldigt mycket = very much. Särskilt = especially, is another adverb, which can stand alone, pointing at different parts of a sentence, e.g. a noun: särskilt pojkar = especially boys (when talking about who does something etc), or with särskilt mycket could be the same as = very much, or another phrase: jag sover mycket, särskilt under helgerna = I sleep a lot, especially during week-ends. And I am sure there are many other possible uses.
i typed down "not really" and it was readily accepted ;) for those wondering.. have a great day
'specially' and 'especially' are different words in English.
I know they are different words, but looking at their definitions (http://www.learnersdictionary.com/qa/what-s-the-difference-between-specially-and-especially), the usage of 'specially' to convey the meaning of 'in a special manner' seems to me that would fit here (I could be mistaken).
What I meant by different words is that they actually are used in different contexts. They are similar (but not the same) in meaning but not in usage.
example: "Weren't you angry?" "Not especially." Not specially would not work there, it has a different meaning.
Can you turn this around and specify an object to say 'Especially not dogs' for example? How would the word order go there?
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Then I would say: "I synnerhet inte hundar", same word order, but you have to use another adverb.
The "correct" translation "Not especially" doesn't really sound English, does it?..
Word order dictates the meaning, much the same way as in English:
- inte särskilt = not especially
- särskilt inte = especially not
