"Ett riktigt jobb"

Translation: A real job

[alpalrationale]

Leave me alone, Dad! Juggling IS a real job!

[Keenforafeed]

You're not even my real parents!

[Hrafnunga]

Ni är mina fula föräldrar.

[RicardoGadelha]

Dina föräldrar är konstiga.

[Javirk]

Richtig, richtig... German, german... :(

[brittalexiswm]

So many of their adjectives and adverbs are similar!

[wyqtor]

I was fooled too! :(

[exqeriment]

It is a real job!!! Being a space-cat will be real when I invent it! harumph

[caro557377]

Ahhh...and again forgetting the English translation when the swedish word is almost similar to the german one....

[Davina388874]

Yes, I know what you mean. It happens to me too, again and again...

[mskiwoeli]

Is it me, or the "j" sounds a bit like [dʑ]?

[Hrafnunga]

Not under the new voice. The last syllable of the previous word blends into it at full speed, though.

[NicholasMo452991]

Yes, it kind of sounds like that when you use the middle of the tongue and the middle of the hard palate to sharply make the [j] sound. But it is definitely still [j].

[yut]

Does word "work" has different translation in swedish since it is not accepted answer?

[ling.ko]

How about 'a right job'? Is it unnatural or wrong?

[exqeriment]

Wrong.

[pablopublico]

Varför?

[JohannDunn]

If I remember correctly, right = rett.
Also 'real' and 'right' mean different things.

[devalanteriel]

rätt, yes. :)

Actually, "right" can occasionally mean riktigt, but not in this sense.

[Lanny625458]

I put a "true" job, which seems accurate as well. :) But it said I was wrong.

[devalanteriel]

I'd say the meaning isn't quite the same. We'd say ett sant jobb for that in Swedish.

[Osebrand]

But on another thread here on this page you say that 'ett sant job' "just sounds weird in Swedish". 'A true job' on the other hand is perfectly acceptable in English. I would say that for example the sentences 'That's not a real job' and 'That's not a true job' are pretty much synonymous. Or, another example, 'She was not aware of his real intentions' and 'She was not aware of his true intentions.'

[mmyy99]

Tinycards defines riktig as "true". Confused :(

[devalanteriel]

We're not affiliated with TinyCards. While riktig can occasionally mean "true", it does not do so here.

[Chickenosis]

Could I say "Riktigt!?" in a angry tone and make sense? Or is there another way to say "really" in Swedish?

[devalanteriel]

You could say Seriöst?! for instance. :)

[CedSgm7N]

Now, why in the world did I think that the word 'riktigt' means 'important'? While I'm at it ... what is the word for important???

[devalanteriel]

viktig(t), which probably explains the mixup. :)

[CedSgm7N]

Yes, it does. Thanks! At least I was only off by one letter - Ha!

[GerhardMen1]

Since riktig also means true, a true job should be accepted as well.

[AyogPuri]

hej