"Sju sjuka sjuksköterskor"
Translation:Seven sick nurses
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Sju sjuka... I think I'm done with learning Swedish. It was nice to meet you, guys. Bye.
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As a Biologist, I've had to learn how to say very difficult words, but I guess this is my limit... And to think that I also wanted to learn Finnish! haha
Had you started to learn Finnish you would have been introduced to "ääliö älä lyö, ööliä läikkyy - don't hit me, you nitwit, you'll spill the beer"
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Worth noting though that ‘ööliä’ is taken from the lyrics of a song and isn't really proper Finnish for beer; as far as I know, not really even in any slang use. You could say any of the following to really make it proper Finnish:
- ‘Ääliö, älä lyö [mua/sitä], öljy läikkyy’ = Idiot, don't hit [me/her/him/thatª], you'll spill the oil. This would actually rhyme, but changes the meaning.
- ‘Ääliö, älä lyö [mua/sitä], olut läikkyy’ = Idiot, don't hit [me/her/him/thatª], you'll spill the beer. This would preserve the meaning, but the word olut has a slightly formal clang; kalja would be more colloquial.
a) In both cases the sentence is missing an object pronoun, but in practice it could implicitly understood to be either mua (spoken Finnish object form for me) or sitä (spoken Finnish object form for her or him, both spoken and formal object form for that).
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Sju sjösjuka sjömän sjöng på skeppet Shangai, samtidigt som sju sjukt sköna sjuksköterskor skötte dem.
That's the oldfashioned word for it. It's accepted, but it's not what the job is called today.
Sjuksköterska is also a feminine word, but it's used for both men and women. (except in Finland, where they are both sjukskötare instead).
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What makes it feminine if its used for both men and women?
EDIT: Thanks ion1122. I am well aware of grammatical gender and the fact that contemporary Swedish doesn't have one called "feminine" -- hence my question. What I wasn't aware of was the fact that the -erska morpheme appears in other words with an exclusively female sense. Now I understand why people were saying this word is feminine even though it is neither grammatically nor semantically so in modern Swedish, only etymologically. Thanks for clearing that up.
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OnsenMushr, to say that a word is "feminine" can mean different things.
1. Some words have a grammatical gender called "feminine" regardless of whether they in fact refer to men, women, or things. For example, in German the word Universität, which means university, is said to be "feminine". Like German, Swedish used to have masculine, feminine, and neuter grammatical genders, but modern Swedish has instead only two genders, called "common" and "neuter".
2. Some vocabulary items refer specifically to men or to women. Often these are occupations. For example, English has actor vs. actress. The items that refer to women are said to be "feminine". Swedish has, for example:
actor = skådespelare (pl. skådespelare)
actress = skådespelerska (pl. skådespelerskor)
Like the Swedish word for "actress", the Swedish word "sjuksköterska" has the "feminine" ending -erska. But although traditionally "feminine", nowadays the word is used to refer to male as well as female nurses.
Sköterska is sometimes used as a synonym for sjuksköterska. It is used for male and female nurses. Skötare is only found at mental institutions and are orderlies or assistant nurses. I believe that it is also genderless in this context.
There's an even worse tongue twister that goes "sju sjösjuka sjömän sköttes av sju sjuksköteskor på sjukhusskeppet i Shanghai" :)
Seven seasick seamen attended by seven nurses on the hospital ship in Shanghai?
Close! "Seven seasick seamen was attended by seven nurses on the hospital ship in Shanghai" ;)
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And what about sju skönsjungande sjuksköterskor skötte sjuttiosju sjösjuka sjömän på skeppet "Shanghai"?
You don't hear it more like hfwoo hfwooka hfwookhfateskor ? :) Sh doesn't sound close at all to me.
/ɧʉː/ /ɧʉ:ka/ /ˈɧʉːkˌɧøːtɛrskor/
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Here in Finland the local Swedish speakers say just ʃ (sh), which is much easier to pronounce, and in my opinion also to understand. But those speaking riksvenskan (Swedish Swedish) call it moominsvenskan.
As a German it is possible for me to pronounce. But at the end of sjuksköterskor, do you have to say the -skor more like ch, more like sch or just skor as it's written?
The rs turns into a retroflex, and kor is pronounced just like it should, with a hard k.
Here's another fun one. Not a tounge twister, but... "brun hårig sjuk sköterska". Means brown hairy sick nurse. If you put the words together, it would for instance become "brunhårig sjuksköterska", which mean brown-haired nurse. As a rule, words are always put together in Swedish.
Duolingo just asked me to say that. I think I now have a cramp in my tongue
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Can someone help me break apart sjuksköterskor so I can understand the pieces? Sjuk is clearly sick. Sköterskor is... shots? Shot givers?
- sjuk = sick, as you say
- sköta = care or nurse (as in the verbs), plus a whole range of similar meanings
- -erska = female agent suffix, like "-ess" in English
So if we want make it male, can we say sjukskötare, like with skådespelare and skådespelerska?
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According to Arnauti on this page 6 years ago, in Sweden the "feminine" form "sjuksköterska" is used to refer to both male and female nurses. But in Finnish Swedish, the form "sjukskötare" is used for both males and females.
Note that the word "skötare" by itself means "attendant". So perhaps it is better to think of the word as neutral rather than male.
Sju sjuka sjuksköterskor från det sjunde sjukhuset skyndade sig till den sköna sjön under korona pandemin.
I am African (Tunisia) and we are 1.216 billion people and I am sure that none of us can read this sentence My continent and know it perfectly
