"Ni läser."

Translation: You are reading.

[sistemsyla]

I always think of lasers, when I read it.

[ivenoidea]

Same here. "Ni läser" sounds to me like someone weaponized certain knights from a certain Monty Python movie about grails.

[lunaroyster]

I answered Y'all read and it worked...

[LizMrugacz]

I thought du meant you, what is different about ni?

[Zmrzlina]

Du is singular, ni is plural.

[PersusjCP]

So basically its the french tu versus vous

[Mckenzie823410]

So du is you and ni is like y'all? Neat.

[GabrielaBl551303]

Tack så mycket

[wut3v4]

The Swedish word for reading "läser" sounds similar to Latin-based languages, such as "leer" in Spanish, "lire" in French, "legere" in Latin, etc. Wonder if "läser" has Latin roots

[NeoTubNinja]

I was thinking it was reminiscent to the German word lesen.

[MeleeNess23]

Maybe they all share a common root?

...Except English, with "read" being the odd one out.

[silke328270]

Yes swedish and german and english are all in the same family of germanic languages. Hence, we, wir and vi.

[Andrew-Lin]

Wiktionary says Latin roots (lire, leer, leggere, etc.) come from Proto-Indo-European "leǵ-", while Germanic roots (lesen, läser, etc.) come from "les-" But these two are synonyms, meaning "to gather."

[chavuelo]

Its "Lezen" in Dutch, it's pronounced almost the same as "Läser" but with an "n" at the end.

[Lin121314]

It sounded like Nej, instead of Ni

[MatthewBar214709]

Du is singular, Ni is plural... is Dig when you're directly speaking to someone? For example Jag älska dig - I love you

[Arnauti]

It's the object form – du is an object in 'Jag älskar dig'.
Compare:
Jag ser dig 'I see you'
Du ser mig 'You see me'

[Sven692782]

It seems more cognate to obsolete words in english. Dig being thee, du being thou, and ni being the original you (which was plural or polite; this meaning was lost when everyone began using the formal version only out of fear of offending anyone.

[Sam857899]

Ni is to Vous as Vi is to Nous ...very confusing!

[BrackAttak]

Same! I just finished the French course and started the swedish one and now I'm dying. Vi at least sounds like 'we' when you pronounce the w like a v. Ni just sounds like it is from monty python.

[NicoClone]

What does "grail" mean? Sorry, I am non-English speaker...

[Arnauti]

It's an old myth, "the holy Grail" is "a dish, plate, stone, or cup" in the stories about King Arthur (British). According to legend, it has special powers, and is designed to provide happiness, eternal youth and food in infinite abundance. Monty Python made a funny movie with themes from these stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Grail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_%26_the_Quest_for_the_Holy_Grail

[JohannesYe]

Ni läser what is ni some one explain me .

[Zmrzlina]

The pronoun you, plural.

[NatPaddyWack]

I said Ni läser, but it said that it was wrong. Am I truly a ghost (XD) even to the mic?

[Agent_KD6-3.7]

I have some issues with the voice recognition. I stick to the pronunciation but it always says it's wrong. So frustrating

[Saarmaju]

Why is study right and not eat?

[rand733177]

We !!

[zombiedog456]

It only says be back in an hour and it really annoys me coz i wont be here in an hour

[SonniSonny]

That's actually so much easier to understand in German because we have different personal pronouns for you plural and you singular

[Ashish.Jon]

Even i think of lasers this is confusing of course!

[Agentu5256]

My wife is Swedish, this word is reading, not studying.

[mesvensson]

Läser means read but often is used to mean study as well, not in the sense of "I have to study for my test" but in the sense of "I'm studying mathematics at the university", "Jag läser matte på universitetet."

[ruby812218]

I got comfuesed what lätiar meant

[DanielMeji30052]

I always think "du" is the word for "you" but apparently is "di"

[NicoClone]

What is the swedish words for them, us, our, their, his, her, its, theirs, ours, hers, his (doesn't have noun after it)?