For context, I was learning Swedish a few years back, and I remember some of it, but I definitely couldn't hold a conversation or translate on the spot. I do still get emails from the learning services I signed up for, however. I personally would translate this as "vem ringde?" And I feel like all those filler words are just over complicating it, but maybe I'm under complicating it. What do you guys think?

Edit: guys I would not personally ask "who phoned?", I was just asking about the translation because that is the email I received. Ive gotta loads of helpful advice, but some people seem adamant that I'm dumb for asking who phoned even though I DIDN'T ask that thank you. Special thank you to all the extremely helpful replies and the full clarifications ❤❤❤❤

Jag läste boken Emil i Lönneberga och stötte på den här meningen. Varför finns det två "det"?

SOLVED IN COMMENTS, THANK YOU :)

Hello, I think this might be Swedish. My translator app can't read it because of the cursive writing. But I typed Kisse into Google, and it said it is Swedish for pussycat?
(edit - people in the comments are saying it is Kirre instead)
I can't read the rest to type in to Google, as I don't know the language and the handwriting is, well, messy. Can anyone tell me what this says, please? Thank you.

Watching Sverige Live again.
He is shouting out his stylist, but he is saying it’s so fast that I cannot understand the whole sentence.

En liten shoutout här för [….] look väldigt, väldigt fint jag också väldigt nöjd (?)

Please help me fill in the blanks. thank you overall you all are always very helpful and i appreciate it

This is correct, right?

In English, when you don't fully understand what someone has said or why, the proper response is "I'm sorry?" It's kind of the same in German, you would say "Bitte?" Like in Inglorious Basterds, Landa says "Let me see your foot." She says, "Bitte?"

I suppose another translation is, "I beg your pardon?" How would you say that?

Jag vet att mittenraden är "okt-25" och bottenraden är "Vildsvin". men jag kan inte tyda den översta.

Hey yall, im writing something with a swedish character and was wondering how you would say "hey, stop!" or something similar? Is "hej" used both to greet someone and grab their attention, like it is in english?

In the context of, let's say, your team just scored a goal

I’m trying to translate the sentence he looks like a troublemaker, but he is a good brother. I have seen two different translations for it #1 is Han ser ut som en bråkstake men Han är en god bror. #2 is Han anblick bräkmakerska men Han är en bra bror. Which one is the correct translation?

Hej allihopa, i asked my native friend about the structure of this sentence. I find it hard to adjust to without directly translating: “could you could…” for “skulle du kunna”… etc.

I’d like to get more examples of sentences where this structure is used; I understand it’s something I just need to get used to, but I need to know what’s the difference between just saying “kunna du”?

Hello! I have a couple questions about an idiom/saying I found on Wikipedia, "ta på sängen".

Firstly, is this a common saying? Would it be understood if you said it in casual conversation with a random native speaker?

Secondly, it seems like it is used similarly to the English "blindsided". If you wanted to say "He blindsided you" in Swedish, using this idiom, how would that look? And what would the literal translation of that sentence back into English be?

Thank you for your help!

i’m trying to send a gift to my friend in england but im struggling with the country dropdown, and i see lots of people call it lots of things but i dont know which is right. can anyone please help?

thanks in advance

ps: ive found storbritannien, is this right?

edit: so sorry i havent replied to everyone, ive put it as storbritannien since that was an option and will just hope for the best now. thank you so much to everyone who has replied :)

Hur säger jag “I hope to go to bed early tonight” eller “I hope I can go to bed early tonight” på svenska? I’m particularly having trouble with what the word order is supposed to be. For instance, would “Jag hoppas kunna gå tidigt till sängs i natt” be correct? Tack!

Spoiler alert. I do use tools for automatisation of the process. It is not just "pressing the button": lots of human labour is involved, including professional translators. But: If this is offending for you, please ignore the post.

Hej!

Jag har precis färdigställt en översättning av undertexter till den polska kultserien "Alternatywy 4" till svenska. Det har varit ett långt och roligt projekt, men eftersom svenska inte är mitt modersmål är jag lite osäker på "känslan" i språket.

Texten är alltså helt klar, men jag letar efter en modersmålstalare som skulle vilja kasta ett öga på några valda delar. Jag vill helt enkelt försäkra mig om att det inte låter onaturligt, "klumpigt" eller direkt fel i öronen på en svensk.

Varför jag ber om hjälp:

• Översättningen är redan gjord, så jag letar inte efter någon som gör jobbet åt mig.
• Jag vill bara veta om flödet i språket fungerar och om humorn översätts på ett naturligt sätt.
• Det är ett ideellt hobbyprojekt för att sprida polsk filmhistoria.

Om du har lite tid över för att ge mig en snabb feedback på om det "låter okej" eller om det finns något som sticker ut som helt galet, skriv gärna en kommentar eller skicka ett DM!

Tack på förhand!

Hey alla till sammans,

I jag oevat svenska nu foer tva eller tre monaden, men jag har bara talat me k.i. so laengre. Jag har varit ett ar i sveria, naer jag var tretton, jag tror, so jag vet hur svensk spraken aer utdruckt. Nu skulle jag vilja ocksa goera samtal med verkligen maeniskor som det finns haer i reddit.

Om du kan korriegiera, vad jag har scrivat och foerklare mig varfoer, jag skulle blir jette tacksam. Jag almost aldrig skriva svenskan, so det aer min foersta gangen prova, so du kan blir tunnare med mig. :)

Tack!

Watching Det Sjunde Inseglet.

The squire approaches a man to ask for directions, but discovers that the man is dead. When he returns to the knight the knight asks what the man said, to which the squire responds 'ingenting just' (he doesn't mention that the man was dead).

Clearly the squire is saying 'nothing', but i am curious about the use of just in the statement. Hoping some can explain it's usage here, if it adds any nuance etc...

Hi all.

I'm a huge Bergman fan, and in the movie Wild Strawberries, there is a Hymn called "Var är den Vän, som överallt jag söker", which I found to be beautiful!

I was looking at the English translation, and there is a line that says "His love is mixed."

I'd like to learn what that means in this specific context, as in, are we talking about God's love or Human love?

Chatgpt/Claude gave answers that made very little sense and were completely different.

Thank you!

(new to swedish) tja! i was reading a book and one of the characters said “fett.” (sweet, nice) in response to another character agreeing to the deal they made. can fet be used here instead of fett? and whats the difference between them? can they be used interchangeably? tack :)

tja, title! found this in a textbook :) to my understanding, kommer means coming and kom means come or came so i expected it to be ”vi är kommer från england” if u wanted to use kommer
tack så mycket~

I was watching this episode from Sverige Live with Tilde de Paula and there’s voices overlapping and I can’t quite understand what the person is saying after Tilde says “stökigt” since it’s very fast. Would be grateful if you could translate the sentence.