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The video you linked is unavailable to me. Was it perchance "Festen Är Över" by Bob Hund?
When I started learning Swedish a year ago (thereäfter dropping it because I was busy and then picking it back up a week ago), I would listen to Sverige Radio to get a sense for Swedish pronunciation and to try to improve my comprehension of spoken Swedish. I'm so glad that they happened to start playing Bob Hund-Opera when I tuned in, because they have been one of my favorite bands ever since.
So like, you might say The war is "över" and you could also say The war is "slut", but it might be weird to say that an impromptu party is "över" (unless maybe it felt to you like the party went on forever)?
With that notion, might it make sense to say that a party that had been planned for a long time, or also an elaborate party, is över?
Does "över" imply some sort of sense of relief, while "slut" is more about the action itself, without any extra connotation of it's own?
Do I have the right idea here?
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The voice pronounces the “s” in “är slut” as a normal “s”. Is that a bug, or is this an exception to the rule that “rs” becomes a “sh” sound?
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Ett lyckligt slut = a happy ending. There's are also a verb like ta slut (stress on slut) which means end. Sommaren som aldrig tar slut 'The summer that never ends'.