"Jag lägger till nya vänner."

Translation: I add new friends.

[legresam]

What is the context of this sentence? Facebook?

[gramphos]

Must be Facebook.

[adrianxu_]

Or Duolingo :)

[Belldannie]

Me on LinkedIn, trying to survive the hostile job market. ;w;

[km1]

How would you say "I make new friends"?

[gramphos]

For most cases you would use "få vänner" however if there is an emphasis on the action you use "skaffa vänner".

"You will make new friends" - "Du kommer få nya vänner."

"You need to make new friends." - "Du måste skaffa nya vänner."

[km1]

Tack

[dariussavory]

I know you miss out the att in spoken speech but do you actually miss out the att in written too? (Regarding kommer att)

[gramphos]

Yes, you may do. (But it is not wrong to have att after kommer). I think that in formal text it is still more common to have the att than to leave it out.

There are a few articles in Swedish about it if you want to try to read them:
http://www.iklartext.se/kan-man-skriva-kommer-utan-att/
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=411&artikel=4589380

[person222222]

So lägg on it's own means put [lying down], but lägg till means add?

[Arnauti]

Yup. And there's lots more…

[g.uh]

This verb is only for Internet stuff? If I want to add honey in a cake's recipe? It works?

[christosqwe]

javisst

[IWannaLearn3]

If you would be using this sentence for that, you would basicly be putting your friends in a cake.

[zooey111198]

I'm making more new friends. Why not?

[Arnauti]

It's not the same thing. You can add new friends to a list or on social media, but when you make friends, that means you become friends with someone. That would be Jag får (or skaffar) nya vänner in Swedish.

[TanyaBasto]

skaffar as in German "schaffen" like
Wir schaffen uns neue Freunde" it sounds awkward, we would rather say "Wir werden Freunde"

[Segwyne]

It took me two hours (a month ago) to translate this book about making friends: https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/BookPreview?bookid%3Dwilenok_00940056%26route%3Dsimple_0_0_0_English_315%26lang%3DEnglish%26msg%3D%26ilang%3DEnglish&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1550675711426000&usg=AFQjCNElyL7MpFCbrx4BGfcuM4sKvMUxPw

[MikyNik1856]

Really useful link, have a lingot!

[TanyaBasto]

The link doesn't work

[Radisyn]

I wrote "I add new friends" and it marked it wrong even though it says that is the exact right answer??

[devalanteriel]

Your error report says

I add new friend

So you're missing the s in "friends" that makes it a plural.

[TanyaBasto]

In German we can also say "anlegen" meaning: to add. For example:
"Ich lege mir ein neues Youtube Kanal an" = I add a new Youtube channel.

[JLC84dwjb80]

Why not, 'I make new friends'?

[devalanteriel]

lägga till means to add, as in e.g. adding people on social networks.

[jesperjong]

Could you leave 'till' out? Jag lägger nya vänner.

[devalanteriel]

No, that'd mean putting them to bed. :)

[MaranataMan]

How adorable.

[Peter147810]

could this be a response to the question 'till vem lägger du X?' maybe one lägger för in that sense?

[devalanteriel]

I'm sorry, but I don't really understand what you mean. Would you mind rephrasing it?

[Kahnugo]

Without context this is a bad question. It is technically correct, but you don't really understand what you are saying before knowing what is the intention.

[TanyaBasto]

"lägger till" means "add", I have to memorize it