"I hear you."
Translation:Jag hör dig.
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"Dig" is the Swedish object form av "du". It's a bit tricky if you compare to English, since both "du" and "dig" are you. If you replace "you" by "him", you'll understand why, since you wouldn't say "I see he" :).
Because of who's the subject and object in the sentence. English has you for both, but in the first person it's I/me. To say "You hear me" is correct, but to say "you hear I" is not. Do you get the difference?
I hear you (where you is one person only) = Jag hör dig
I hear you (where you is more than one person) = Jag hör er
You don't know in English, that was sort of the point of Helen's comment. Both dig and er are accepted in Swedish here.
Yes, and since "you" can be either one or several persons, "Jag hör dig" and "Jag hör er" are both correct answers.
So 'er' is used here because there is more than one person? And if you were speaking about one person you would use 'dig' here? I just want to make sure i understand, as i would have said 'dig' here.
I thought er was a more formal version of dig/du and ert was plural. Is that not the case?
Er/ert/era are all used for plural you:
er hund (en-noun)
ert hus (ett-noun)
era katter (plural noun)
Er/Ert/Era also work for formal single you, but it is very seldom used in Swedish.
You need to use er instead of ni. It's just like you can't say "I hear he" in English.
Swedish lyssna works like its English cognate "listen", in that it requires a preposition. So jag lyssnar dig sounds like "I listen you".
Also, lyssna = listen, höra = hear, usually.
I was listening to a Swedish language song and one of tbe refrains was "hör a mig" insread if hör mig. Is that colloquial or something?
No, though höra is the infinitive so it could have been just song lyrics not conforming to grammar. If you remember what song it was, I'd be happy to check for you.
It's "Sundance Kid" by Kent. Here is the refrain:
Hör du mig? Hör du mig? Kan du höra mig? Hör du mig? Hör du mig? Allt det här är för dig Hör du mig? Hör du mig? Kan du höra mig? Allt vi sagt, allt vi gjort blev en sång för dig
In hör du mig? you have hör as the main verb, so you use the present tense.
In kan du höra mig?, you have kan as the main verb, so you use höra in the infinitive.
Compare English, where you'd say "can she hear me?" rather than "can she hears me?"
The object form of "du" is "dig" in Swedish.
Jag hör dig = I hear you
Du hör mig = You hear me
"You" is just a special case and you wouldn't say "you hear I" for example :).
Try to think about who the person is doing the action and who is being affected by the action. In this example the word 'you' is for the person BEING HEARD, so you should use 'dig'.
If you turned it around and asked "you hear me?", 'you' is the person DOING the hearing and so you would use the word 'Du' instead
Hope this helps