"Jag är under dig."
Translation:I am under you.
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Does anyone know a good way to remember the translation for "under"? I keep getting it wrong
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It is a little complicated, but bear with me: Swedish language uses the very same letters for the English word 'under'. Here comes the twist: unfortunately the letters are in the same order as in in the English 'under'. It is tricky - I know - but with a few years of practice and perhaps living in Sweden for several years can help you get it down to some extent.
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Is this only physically "I am under you"? Or like, "I am beneath you" too?
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Tack! Can it be used for hierarchical things, such as "I am under you" being said to a superior within a company? Thanks again.
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Anyone else think this is creepy? It sounds like something someone in a scary movie would say...I'm right under you
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or maybe an adventure/action film I'm right beneath you on the next level down in the spaceship!
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Am I correct that the u in under is supposed to be pronounced like that? The voice person lady thing pronounces it right? It isn't said like the English u in under, right? Just wondering :)
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We're currently in an A/B test so I can't know for sure which voice you're hearing, and I can only hear one of them myself, but I think they both say this correctly. It's a sound you don't have in English and it sounds nothing like the English 'under'. Hear a native speaker say it: http://sv.forvo.com/search-sv/under/
Swedish has more different vowel sounds than English.
Edit: the A/B test has ended and the new voice definitely says this correctly.
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Tack!
I also enjoyed this comparison with Danish & Norwegian. Never hurts to do some disambiguation (if you will) of especially similar languages. http://sv.forvo.com/word/under/#sv
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The link you gave me sounds about the same as the voice on here. Thank you for the clarification!
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I hear only a small difference between the Swedish vowel sound in the first syllable of 'under' and the English vowel sound in 'put'. Also, in certain British accents (e.g. Yorkshire accents) many more words contain that sort of 'u'. The Forvo English pronunciation of 'under' by TristanJaimes, for instance, isn't so very far from Swedish, is it? Am I just not tuned in to the subtleties of Swedish vowels yet?
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I'm sure the sound exists in some English dialects, you can also hear it in Japanese for instance. To be more exact I guess I should have written that this sound is not a phoneme in Standard English.
The sound that most speakers would use in put however would be another vowel phoneme in Swedish, which would usually be written with the letter o. (o can sound in two ways, either like that or in the same way that the vowel written as an å sounds.)
Kind of a weird expression, does it has any other meaning than littlelatly being under somebody's else body?
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Can it be taken for 'you are my boss'? Or is it just about physical position?
I didn't meant it that way, i thought of it as say for example: i am underneath you in the league table or my team is underneath yours in the league
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Er.. what is the context of this? Does it mean literally under, or does it describe (for instance) a manager - lesser employee role?
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Do Swedish people really talk this fast? It's so difficult to hear words with no break between them.
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Another example for use of "under": "I am under your comand or spell"= "Jag är under ditt befäl eller stavning".
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You're over me..? Whe-when were-when were you...under me? - Ross Geller
