"Hallå, är det någon där?"

Translation: Hello, is there anybody there?

[RobertAdonias]

i imagined a Portal's turret saying this :)

[LazyLynxcat]

Haha same

[strangrish]

I ended up writing "hello, is there anybody in there?". Damn Pink Floyd!

[Henk754682]

Jag oksa

[Xxq04ezm]

Is there anybody OUT there..... Pink Floyd.

[devalanteriel]

The album continues with Comfortably Numb a few songs later, which starts "Is there anybody in there?" as a counterpoint to Is There Anybody Out There?

[PavelSedlk1]

Just nod if you can hear me.

[BrizaMd]

Is this expression good for both a telephone call, and a spooky house/cave? :D

[Zmrzlina]

Yep! Such a handy expression.

[BrizaMd]

Tackar :)

[IanCaliban]

First Tom Jones, now Lionel Richie.

[ingieggert]

I guess that "Hi, is there anyone there" should be ok as well?

[Zmrzlina]

It works.

[skrats]

Could one say "finns det någon där?" Or it that construction unnatrual?

[Zmrzlina]

It just feels much better with "är" to me... But I don't know why.

[wcs900]

Someone told me that NÅGON is pronounce "Non". In this i hear G being pronounced. I guess the big question i have, is when does G sound like Guh and when does it sound like Yuh? Gyllene and Gula both have different G sounds for instance.

[devalanteriel]

You can pronounce it either någon (long å) or nån (short å). The latter is more colloquial but also far more common. The g in the former is hard.

g is hard before the vowels a, o, u, å
g is soft before the vowels e, i, y, ä, ö

[wcs900]

Tack !

[Cheesefish77]

would "Hello, is there anyone there?" be wrong? As far as I know "anybody" and "anyone" are synonymous, yet it was marked wrong.

[devalanteriel]

That's odd, it's certainly an accepted translation.

[PeterDeyou1]

någon

has been a problem for me in learning swedish

[unfetteredferret]

...och hur kan man säger: "Is there anybody out there?" på Svenska, tack.

[devalanteriel]

Finns det någon där ute?, for instance.

[imogen938210]

I am wondering if there is any clear difference in swedish for saying 'someone' and 'anyone' they are virtually synonymous but do imply slightly different things in english 'someone' being adressed to a single person and 'anyone' to possible miltiple people? It it just någon for all?

[Xxq04ezm]

Moderators... seeing that någon is very commonly & coloquially pronounced "nån"..... how do you moderators pronounce "någon"? I guess ultimately what I'm asking is that we can all learn "någon" being pronounced with the hard 'g' as it's followed by an 'o'........ but if we were to find ourselves in a conversation with someone or a group, would we be better to usually pronounce it as "nån" or with the hard 'g'? :) Tack!

[devalanteriel]

I'd go with nån colloquially and någon less colloquially, but neither strictly.