"Vi behöver verkligen en ingenjör som du."

Translation: We really need an engineer like you.

[LyckligCyklop]

As an engineer looking for a new job, this sentence made me smile

[Ollyfer]

I hope that you found a job by now. Alas, engineers are always sought, your profession is always lucky. :D

[LyckligCyklop]

Seeing these responses way too late...yes I did! I am happy with my new job which I started at a year ago

[Dezhocob]

Grattis!

[AndBar07]

Same. Even better if it's at Sweden

[LyckligCyklop]

thank you!

[SvabskiVuk]

Exactly the same here :)

[LyckligCyklop]

thank you!

[firstrays]

What is the difference between this and egentligen? Are they interchangeable or no?

[Zmrzlina]

They're not interchangeable. Very similar question was answered yesterday on https://www.duolingo.com/comment/5577724, hopefully you'll be able to find what you look for there.

If it doesn't, just ask again. :)

[amber_jin]

can one say"dig" instead of "du" here? would it mean the same?

[Zmrzlina]

Yes and yes.

[MaranataMan]

That's interesting... Any other cases where they're both valid?

[bonoetmalo]

So does ¨lik¨ usually only work when comparing physical appearances?

[Arnauti]

No, it works for similarities in personality and such too, but here it isn't really a question of similarity. We don't need an engineer who is similar to you, rather we need someone who just like you happens to be an engineer. Not sure I'm describing this 100% accurately but I hope it helps anyway.

[Antonio_Sou]

Does it make a difference whether it is 'behöver verkligen' or 'verkligen behöver' ?

[Arnauti]

Yes, the verb needs to be in second place in Swedish main clauses (that are not questions), so if the sentence starts with Vi, the verb absolutely has to come after that.
More about word order here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/8970470

[person222222]

This sounds like something you'd find on a job recruitment poster.

[Emily_Matthias]

Why not "som dig"?

[Linguistic_Bot]

It can be either "du" or "dig" in this sentence.

[Anna244797]

One e in the english translation wrong. And the whole sentence is wrong. That is too hard!!!!

[KLTah]

i thought 'som' means 'who'. it's used as 'like' here?

[LyckligCyklop]

Who is vem, I think you're just thinking of the wrong word

[AnaBird2]

so on: https://forvo.com/search/verkligen/ it sounds like the "g" is a "ye" sound, but the voice on here, makes a "g" sound? :)

[Hadrien820900]

The voice clearly pronounces the 's' of "som" as in the english "snake" here, even though there is a 'r' right before. Is this correct? And why?

[MaranataMan]

My understanding is that the 'r' and the 's' will usually fuse even across word boundaries, so you'd be correct in pronouncing it as "inwhen-yuhshom-do". Only when trying to speak extra clearly (e.g. when repeating yourself) would you sound the letters individually.

[hauntedcardboard]

i still have no idea when to use som or what it means when it shows up in text, is there something im missing or is som like för in that it can mean a lot of things?

[Orvil.alsaad]

Hire me!! Hyra mig? Yallah!!