"I do not eat beef."

Translation: Jag äter inte nötkött.

[lesliedawne]

is the letter "k" always pronounced "ch"? (I know "ck" is pronounced "k," as in "socker")

[devalanteriel]

No, it's hard when preceded by the so-called hard vowels a, o, u, å.

[TuckerMaus]

Can someone please explain why this sentence is grammatically incorrect? "Jag gor inte ater nötkött."

[Lundgren8]

In English when you want to make a statement negative, you have to use the verb ”to do”. You say ”I eat beef.” but you say ”I do not eat beef.” This doesn’t exist in Swedish. You just say: ”I eat beef” and ”I eat not beef”. It will not work with directly translating word by word from English.

[TuckerMaus]

Oh, I understand now. Tack! :)

[Alana860789]

True. Try google translate.

[Emanuele251738]

Tack snalla !:-D

[Joel__W]

It's not how negatives are formed in Swedish. Gör can't be used with a verb as its object either. I'm sure the tips explain how negatives sentences are formed.

[TuckerMaus]

Ah, I still have to read the tips. Tack!

[DavidCarls11]

It's there a distinction between oxkött and nötkött?

[devalanteriel]

No, they're synonymous, but oxkött can be a bit dated.

[poppo17]

A "nöt" is a nut; and "kött" stands for meat, i guess. does "nöt" means also "beef"?

[devalanteriel]

No, nöt means "cattle". English has an older cognate "neat" with the same meaning.

[poppo17]

look what I have found... https://static-svko.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/media/not_2014_press.jpg

[gabejosh]

beautiful.., but maybe it's a bit too much... (I mean all those words to learn?)

[jacob738094]

So.. neat meat!

[Alana860789]

No.

[AprilMay4409]

Is there any difference between nötkött and oxkött?

[devalanteriel]

No, they're synonymous, but oxkött can be a bit dated.

[ReddySrikar]

I use this sentence all the time at Swedish restaurants. :p

[poplaroid]

so nötkött = beef
fläskkött = pork
and kött = meat?

[devalanteriel]

Yep.

[Marie491311]

I do not eat beef. Why in swedish eat comes befor do not? Its confusing. Jag äter inte nötkött

[devalanteriel]

Compare unidiomatic English: you'd say "I eat not beef" but not "I not eat beef". Same reasoning. It's just that English uses an auxiliary "do" construction for negatives that Swedish doesn't have, so that changes the English grammar.

[Peter359678]

Why cant i use ej instead of inte?

[devalanteriel]

Added that. Note that it's pretty formal.

[CedSgm7N]

I had guessed 'kott' ... so is 'kott' meat and notkott beef?

[devalanteriel]

Yes, nöt is an old word meaning "cattle". It's a cognate of the English "neat", which is archaic today but has the same general meaning.