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”Tycker du om blodpudding?” (Do you like black pudding?)
”Nej, inte särskilt.” (No, not really.)
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! :)
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 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.
