"Trettio år"
Translation:Thirty years
March 29, 2015
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Should the "o" be pronounced or should we just say "tretti" as heard here: http://sv.forvo.com/word/trettio/#sv ?
The -o is almost always silent unless you’re enunciating a lot. This also goes for the other tens on -tio, like femtio, sextio, sjuttio etc.
Fyrtio is pronounced as if it were spelt förti. Tjugo is usually pronounced tjugi or tjuge and tju- in compounds, like tjugotvå [tjutvå]. In Finland and in older Sweden Swedish tjugo can also be tjugu and there they usually pronounce the full word in compounds as well, and don’t reduce it to tju-.
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That explains my question when watching Melodifestivalen 2020 this year! Now tjugi tjugi makes sense... Was wondering why they weren't pronouncing tho o... Thank you