"Vargen"

Translation: The wolf

[LadyCelebrian]

Tolkien's wargs make a little more sense now.

[Zmrzlina]

Indeed. You'll find quite a lot of Norse in there. Needless to say, "warg" doesn't sound as exotic to us. :p

[Ungewitig_Wiht]

Tolkien used a bunch of Old English and Norse because he studied the actual literature of those times and cultures if I remember correctly

[bonbonaj3]

Actually, he studied their languages. Tolkien was a linguist before an author.

[Ungewitig_Wiht]

Well you know the idea was still in there. Thanks for the correction.

[JoLost]

That's it!

[shrikrishna1]

Is ´g´pronounced as "y"?

[Lundgren8]

It is when it comes after r and l: berg, borg, varg, färg, svalg, alg, talg, helg etc.

[shrikrishna1]

Tac

[martabassof]

The wondrous world of Svenska prononciation...

[yogin12]

Tack sa mycket

[sweedishme]

I herd varion? Plz help tack du sö mycket

[Arnauti]

The last vowel is unstressed and can be pronounced very unclearly, like a schwa sound: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa but it can also be said with a clearer, more normal Swedish e sound, it varies. It should not sound like an o though (and I don't hear an o sound here).
Hear a native speaker say it here: http://sv.forvo.com/search-sv/vargen/

[Ungewitig_Wiht]

>It should not sound like an o though

In english a lot of O's are pronounced as schwas, like action /ækʃən/

[Arnauti]

Right, I meant it doesn't sound as an o as in a clear o.

[RodolfoJonasson]

I herd variã too.... Hehe

[brigids.em]

So would the musical piece be "Per och vargen" in Swedish?

[Arnauti]

Almost, it's Peter och vargen. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_och_vargen

[ashakiran0]

how would i say wolves?

[Zmrzlina]

That'd be "vargar".

[ashakiran0]

tack

[GodiSandra]

I wonder whether the Swedes use the word "ulf" in the sense of a wolf.

[thorr18]

Obsolete spelling of archaic Swedish word ulv for wolf.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ulf#Swedish

[GodiSandra]

Thanks. Yes I know that the word comes from the Old Norse. Such words have survived, for example, in the names (Ulf, Arn, Björn), but I'm curious if it is used in contemporary language. The word "ulf" is rather more like the English "wolf", the German "wolf", and even the Polish "wilk" than "varg".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulf

[Zmrzlina]

No, "ulv" not used in contemporary Swedish.

[Autumn19361]

At the beginning of a practice there is a coin and a number 0 next to it, what is that for?

[door18]

I think it means that you haven't completed it yet, but I don't know for sure.