"Hon är så snäll."

Translation: She is so kind.

[Synthpopalooza]

Also related to "snälla" which is a form of "please" used when you are begging kindness from someone. e.g. "snälla hjälp mig" (Please help me).

[Glennebanan]

Yeah, and how does one usually combine snälla with tack? I know it's done, I just don't really understand when or why. Tack snälla is basically thank you kindly I suppose, but are there some other very common variations?

[friswing]

Yes, we say Tack snälla, but I don't remember any other variation. I would say that it is short for "Tack snälla (du)", telling the kind person that he/she is very 'kind', doing whatever I thanked for. "Thanks, you are so kind!"

[Glennebanan]

Tack snälla!

[friswing]

You're welcome! :-)

[deactivated user]

Fun fact: Swedish snäll (kind) is a cognate of German schnell (fast).

[friswing]

Is it really a cognate? Or just a False Friend? When I was a child we had "Snälltåg" which had nothing to do with being kind. It meant 'Fast train' from the German 'schnell'. We used to have a stronger bond to German language, lending words, for centuries.

[degrasseme]

It's a cognate because the words derive from the same origin. And a false friend because they no longer mean the same thing.

The term "snälltåget" was introduced back when "snäll" still was used for fast in Swedish.

[RoshynKinn]

In dutch also false friend.. our 'snel' means also fast