"En känsla av vemod"

Translation: A feeling of melancholy

[CapdeBurro]

Is this the depressing part of the course? Couldn't you put the food skill right after, instead of right before?

[Anders91]

You could say it's part of the culture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMgitKv-78I

[HelenCarlsson]

I linked to Visa från Utanmyra in another thread earlier today :). I thought of Vintersaga.

Det är då som det stora vemodet rullar in...

[Abrogans]

Jag också tänkte på den låten :)

[jwbards]

Jag tycker om bilderna! Det finns också Volvos reklam med en annan version av sånget (eller en del av sånget).. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KquHpO2VWI&t=1s

[CapdeBurro]

Love this, it makes me really happy.

[Anders91]

Look up the album, Jazz på svenska by Swedish jazz pianist Jan Johansson. It is basically a collection of jazz arrangements of Swedish folk songs, and it is amazing.

[CapdeBurro]

Tack, I'll go for it!

[Marivnho]

"Wehmut" in german :)

[Chris-Butler]

Is vemod a common word to use? Because my first reaction to this is that I can just forget it since melancholy isn't a word I've ever used in my life. But I'm quickly learning that language doesn't work like that!

Is vemod perhaps one step sadder than ledsen?

[Anders91]

It's not common no. Wiktionary has a good definition of it in my opinion:

vemod n

1. pensive melancholy
2. tender sadness
3. (negative) calm feeling that something emotionally (positively) significant is over and never will be back

I would say the word reflects a lot of Scandinavian culture.

[HerrKatt]

Fråga för manniskor som talar både portugisiska/galiciska och svenska: är "vemod" samma som eller liknar det "saudade"?

[RobertAdonias]

nej, jag tycker inte det. "vemod" verkar mycket med "melancolia".

"saudade" är en känsla man känns för andra personen eller andra tid/plats.

men jag bara lär mig svenska. kanske jag stämmer inte.

[Heidijan]

Som Robert sier, "saudade" er mer "lengsel" (längtan?), etter noe/noen, tror jeg.

[Arnauti]

längtan is the Swedish word for it, yes.

[Jeanbean425734]

This is a little unrelated but I FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO ACTIVATE A SWEDISH KEYBOARD ON MY AMAZON FIRE TABLET!!! I am super excited, in case you can't tell. Wee-haw!!! Woo-hoo!!! and Whoa-doggie!!!

[lk_]

At least you don't seem to be vemodig =)

[hornedhorse9]

Isnt melankoli a word ??? My norwegian friend and i were talking in a weird svorsk mix and she Said vemodig is a greater feeling than melancholy ? Is this true ??

[cloudcalculator]

I think this is now one of ny favourite swedish word

[BatataK989]

This appears on an Olof Palme's New Year speech. So it begins:

"Vid ett årsskifte så upplever många en känsla av vemod..."

[freeboprich]

"a bittersweet feeling" perhaps?

[bigswedeej]

The word remorse came to mind. Does that work?a feeling of remorse

[Anders91]

No, it is not remorse.

[bigswedeej]

Tack

[jandrade5]

nostalgia?

[Christophir]

A feeling of woe mood. :(

[RoddersOX7]

But I typed in 'A feeling of woe' (thinking of the German 'Wehmut') and was dinged wrong.

[NordicWay]

woe mode?

[L.prJT]

Who else learned a new English word?

[DaddyDerickAli]

Listening to Pink Floyd and Radiohead i suppose