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- "Ni läser."
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Same here. "Ni läser" sounds to me like someone weaponized certain knights from a certain Monty Python movie about grails.
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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
Maybe they all share a common root?
...Except English, with "read" being the odd one out.
Happens a lot with english - Swedish but sometimes English seems to be the only language that has a relation with the word in Swedish, it's like a hate - love relationship
Yes swedish and german and english are all in the same family of germanic languages. Hence, we, wir and vi.
Its "Lezen" in Dutch, it's pronounced almost the same as "Läser" but with an "n" at the end.
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."
Du is singular, Ni is plural... is Dig when you're directly speaking to someone? For example Jag älska dig - I love you
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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'
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.
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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
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.
I said Ni läser, but it said that it was wrong. Am I truly a ghost (XD) even to the mic?
I have some issues with the voice recognition. I stick to the pronunciation but it always says it's wrong. So frustrating
That's actually so much easier to understand in German because we have different personal pronouns for you plural and you singular
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."
It only says be back in an hour and it really annoys me coz i wont be here in an hour
I have to imagine it's on purpose. On the American keyboard layout, "I" and "O" are next to each other so as long as that's the only mistake in the answer, it accepts it. I believe if you had a 2nd mistake, it wouldn't work. For example I don't think it would count "No läset.", but I do think either "No läser." or "Ni läset." would be counted in my experience.
vi läser = we are reading, correct ?
because Duolingo says it is 'You are reading'
What is the swedish words for them, us, our, their, his, her, its, theirs, ours, hers, his (doesn't have noun after it)?
