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INTRODUCTION
Jasmine: Hej allihopa, this is Jasmine.
Morten: Hej och välkomna. And of course, I’m Morten! Welcome to SwedishPod101.com, Absolute Beginner Season 1, Lesson 22 - The Swedish World in Colors.
Jasmine: In this lesson, we are looking at colors in Swedish.
Morten: We’re in bus number 50 from Kallebäck into town.
Jasmine: James is talking to Eva in the early morning. They’re on their way to the university.
Interviewee: They’re talking in a familiar casual manner, but the vocab is largely standard. Let’s listen to the conversation.

Lesson conversation

James: Vad kallas färgerna på trafikljuset för igen?
Eva: Vad? Du måste ha hört dem 30 eller 40 gånger. Röd, gul och grön.
James: Vadå 30 eller 40 gånger? Men din tröja den är också grön.
Eva: Nej, den är turkos så klart.
James: Alltså jag tycker den är blå nästan och den ser 50 år gammal ut.
Eva: Nejmen, den är ju definitivt inte blå, och inte grön heller. Och det är ju 60-talsmode.
James: Jag ser inte skillnaden. Min keps den är gul, eller?
Eva: Nejdå, den är orange. Och din tröja är märklig lila och väldigt 70-tal.
Morten: And now let’s listen to the slow version.
Jasmine: Och nu ska vi lyssna på den sakta versionen.
James: Vad kallas färgerna på trafikljuset för igen?
Eva: Vad? Du måste ha hört dem 30 eller 40 gånger. Röd, gul och grön.
James: Vadå 30 eller 40 gånger? Men din tröja den är också grön.
Eva: Nej, den är turkos så klart.
James: Alltså jag tycker den är blå nästan och den ser 50 år gammal ut.
Eva: Nejmen, den är ju definitivt inte blå, och inte grön heller. Och det är ju 60-talsmode.
James: Jag ser inte skillnaden. Min keps den är gul, eller?
Eva: Nejdå, den är orange. Och din tröja är märklig lila och väldigt 70-tal.
Morten: And now, with the English translation.
Jasmine: Och nu med den engelska översättningen.
Eva: Vad kallas färgerna på trafikljuset för igen?
Morten: What do you call the colors on traffic lights again?
Eva: Vad? Du måste ha hört dem 30 eller 40 gånger. Röd, gul och grön.
Morten: What? You must have heard them thirty or forty times: red, yellow, and green.
Eva: Vadå 30 eller 40 gånger? Men din tröja den är också grön.
Morten: What do you mean thirty or forty times? But your sweater is also green.
Eva: Nej, den är turkos så klart.
Morten: No, it's turquoise, of course.
James: Alltså jag tycker den är blå nästan och den ser 50 år gammal ut.
Morten: Well, I think it's blue almost. And it looks fifty years old.
Eva: Nejmen, den är ju definitivt inte blå, och inte grön heller. Och det är ju 60-talsmode.
Morten: No, it's definitely not blue, and not green either. And it's 60s fashion.
James: Jag ser inte skillnaden. Min keps den är gul, eller?
Morten: I don't see the difference. My cap is yellow, isn't it?
Eva: Nejdå, den är orange. Och din tröja är märklig lila och väldigt 70-tal.
Morten: No, it's orange. And your sweater is a strange purple and very 70s.
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Morten: Okay. We’re talking typical Swedish colors today. What’s a typical Swedish color?
Jasmine: Well, when a lot of people think of Sweden, they think of the unspoiled countryside.
Morten: And cozy-looking timber houses, yes!
Jasmine: Those would be a coppery-shade of red.
Morten: And this is a color with a fair bit of tradition, if I’m not mistaken.
Jasmine: Yes. It’s a by-product of copper mining in Sweden.
Morten: Ore mining has been a Swedish trade for centuries.
Jasmine: And since this color is a natural by-product of the mining process, it’s always been cheap and readily available.
Morten: So that makes it very Swedish, too. What about other colors?
Jasmine: Some people go very colorful when painting their houses. But even then, they tend to use pastel shades.
Morten: True. Yellow seems to be popular. Is the same true for interior coloring?
Jasmine: More or less, yes. Go to IKEA and check out the color schemes for fabrics. You’ll get a pretty good idea of what Swedes like.
Morten: So some people go very colorful and others prefer earthier colors.
Jasmine: That sounds about right. There’s also a traditional Allmogestil, a style with lots of natural patterns and a lot of blue.
Morten: Oh, yes! That is also something else brings to my mind when thinking of Sweden.
Jasmine: Well, Sweden and Scandinavia in general have been famous for design for a while now.
Morten: Oh, yes, indeed. So get inspired in and by Sweden. And now, let’s take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson.
VOCAB LIST
First, we have…
Jasmine: Röd [natural native speed]
Morten: Red.
Jasmine: Röd [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Röd [natural native speed].
Morten: Next we have…
Jasmine: Gul [natural native speed].
Morten: Yellow.
Jasmine: Gul [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Gul [natural native speed].
Morten: Next we have…
Jasmine: Grön [natural native speed].
Morten: Green.
Jasmine: Grön [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Grön [natural native speed].
Morten: Next we have…
Jasmine: Turkos [natural native speed].
Morten: Turquoise.
Jasmine: Turkos [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Turkos [natural native speed].
Morten: Next we have…
Jasmine: Blå [natural native speed].
Morten: Blue.
Jasmine: Blå [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Blå [natural native speed].
Morten: Next we have…
Jasmine: Orange [natural native speed].
Morten: Orange.
Jasmine: Orange [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Orange [natural native speed].
Morten: And next we have…
Jasmine: Lila [natural native speed].
Morten: Purple
Jasmine: Lila [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Lila [natural native speed].
Morten: And finally, we have…
Jasmine: Skillnad [natural native speed].
Morten: Difference.
Jasmine: Skillnad [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Skillnad [natural native speed].
KEY VOCABULARY AND PHRASES
Morten: Let's take a closer look at some words, phrases from this lesson. A piece of vocab we’d like to take up here is a very useful word.
Jasmine: It’s the word “skillnad” meaning “difference.”
Morten: It is often used in the phrase like this, Det är skillnad på...
Jasmine: ”There is a difference between.” If we talk colors, you could say…
Morten: Det är skillnad på blå och turkos.
Jasmine: “There’s a difference between blue and turquoise” or Det är skillnad på öl och cocktails.
Morten: “There’s a difference between beer and cocktails.” Oh, there sure is! Could you say that again so our listeners can repeat it for practice?
Jasmine: Det är skillnad på öl och cocktails.
Morten: Very good. Next stop is the little expression femtiotal.
Jasmine: Of course, you could use any other number in the tense here.
Morten: It’s the way to refer to a decade in Swedish.
Jasmine: You can use the expression with tio, tjugo, trettio and so on.
Morten: Like På sjuttiotal fanns det mycket färg.
Jasmine: “In the 70s, there was a lot of color.” I suppose most people would agree here.
Morten: Let’s listen and repeat.
Jasmine: På sjuttital fanns det mycket färg.
Morten: Good work, everyone.
Jasmine: Our last phrase is something that is very handy to use when you want to confirm the name of something.
Morten: It is a sentence Vad kallas det för?
Jasmine: What is this called? You can substitute any word for Det. If you do use Det you’re most likely pointing at something.
Morten: Or referring to something that’s just been mentioned and it’s totally clear from the context.
Jasmine: Plug in any English word and you can ask for its Swedish equivalent.
Morten: Okay, but for that you should also in the word Swedish, right?
Jasmine: Probably, although it’s not absolutely essential. Vad kallas beer för på svenska?
Morten: “What is beer called in Swedish?” Well, it’s öl.
Jasmine: You can also asks someone for someone else’s name.
Morten: Vad kallas han för?
Jasmine: What is he called? Let’s listen and repeat. Vad kallas han för?
Morten: Excellent!
Jasmine: So, I repeat one more time, but I’m going to make a little change. Let’s see if you can figure out what it is. Listen and repeat, Vad kallas hon för?
Morten: Excellent! Well done! Actually, that was, “what is she called?” And now, let’s take a look at the grammar section for this lesson.

Lesson focus

In this lesson, we’re again looking at numbers, or to be précised, we’re looking at tens, hundreds, and thousands.
Jasmine: So far, we’ve looked at cardinal and ordinal numbers up to 20.
Morten: This time, we’ll be expanding your number knowledge quite a bit.
Jasmine: Tens in Swedish are pretty straightforward. They’re actually very close to their counterpart numbers one to nine.
Morten: The exception is 20; we’ve already seen how that one works.
Jasmine: Here are the tens from 30 to 90, trettio
Morten: Thirty.
Jasmine: fyrtio
Morten: Forty.
Jasmine: femtio
Morten: Fifty.
Jasmine: sextio
Morten: Sixty.
Jasmine: sjuttio
Morten: Seventy.
Jasmine: åttio
Morten: Eighty.
Jasmine: nittio
Morten: Ninety. To make tens, you normally add T-I-O and occasionally, double T-I-O to the numbers three to nine.
Jasmine: That’s right. Even though the suffix ends in O, it’s usually pronounced TY like its English equivalent.
Morten: Pronunciation changes, huh? Do any other sounds get dropped?
Jasmine: Yes, actually they do. Any number below 10 that has two syllables and ends in a vowel loses that final vowel before adding the suffix.
Morten: This is the case of four…
Jasmine: Fyra
Morten: …eight…
Jasmine: Åtta
Morten: …and nine.
Jasmine: nio.
Morten: They become fyrti, åtti and nitti.
Jasmine: Let’s practice what we’ve learned so far with the more common pronunciation, Tjugo, tretti, fyrti, femti, sexti, sjutti, åtti, nitti.
Morten: Excellent job, everyone, but these are just the tens in isolation. How about more specific numbers like 35 or 47?
Jasmine: No problem. Here, Swedish functions like English, simply adding the number below 10 to the end.
Morten: So those would be trettiofem and fyrtiosju.
Jasmine: Exactly. Let’s practice some of the specific numbers.
Morten: Okay, but nice and slow, please.
Jasmine: First, I will give you an example in English and Swedish – 35, trettiofem. Now, I’m going to give you the number in English; I would like for you to give me the number in Swedish – 47, 66, 89, 72.
Morten: Thank you. These were Fyrtiosju, sextiosex, åttionio, sjuttiotvå.
Jasmine: Very good, everyone. It is important not to confuse the tens with the teens.
Morten: Right. Please be careful with sjutton
Jasmine: Seventeen…
Morten: …and sjuttio
Jasmine: Seventy. And with arton …
Morten: Eighteen…
Jasmine: And åttio
Morten: Eighty. I think we’re ready for something bigger, unto the hundreds.
Jasmine: Hundreds in Sweden behave as they do in English. The word for hundred is hundra.
Morten: And as in English, when it’s just 100, you don’t necessarily say hundra you can also say etthundra.
Jasmine: Exactly. Please note that in Swedish, all compound numbers are written as one word.
Morten: Swedish makes lots of compound words outside of numbers, too but there’s something you have to be careful of.
Jasmine: In Swedish, there’s a big difference between compounded and uncompounded words.
Morten: This can be dangerous when two words mortify the same word.
Jasmine: Oh, yes. There’s a difference between en brunhårig flicka…
Morten: A brown-haired girl…
Jasmine: And en brun hårig flicka with brun and hårig written apart.
Morten: This means “a brown hairy girl,” something entirely different.
Jasmine: Please be careful of that. Back to the hundreds, yes? A hundred and fifty is etthundrafemtio, or hundrafemtio.
Morten: One hundred and seventy-six is etthundrasjuttiosex or hundrasjuttiosex. And 124 is etthundratjugofyra or hundratjugofyra.
Jasmine: Let’s build some words together, shall we?
Morten: Okay! Simple ones first – one hundred.
Jasmine: etthundra
Morten: Two hundred.
Jasmine: tvåhundra
Morten: Three hundred.
Jasmine: trehundra
Morten: Four hundred.
Jasmine: Fyrahundra. Five hundred.
Morten: Femhundra.
Jasmine: Six hundred.
Morten: Sexhundra.
Jasmine: Seven hundred.
Morten: Sjuhundra.
Jasmine: Eight hundred.
Morten: Åttahundra.
Jasmine: Nine hundred.
Morten: Niohundra. And mixing few tens in, 250.
Jasmine: Tvåhundrafemtio.
Morten: Three hundred and thirty.
Jasmine: Trehundratrettio.
Morten: Four hundred and sixty.
Jasmine: Fyrahundrasextio. Well done. Now, let’s add some numbers below 10 to make these numbers more specific – one hundred and fifty seven.
Morten: Etthundrafemtiosju.
Jasmine: Eight hundred twenty-three.
Morten: Åttahundratjugotre.
Jasmine: Seven hundred ninety-nine.
Morten: Sjuhundranittionio.I’m wondering something. Do you always pronounce the -go in tjugo?
Jasmine: People often do when counting, but it’s not guaranteed. It varies from person to person.
Morten: Oh, I see. Last but quantifiably not least, the thousands.
Jasmine: Swedish word for thousand is tusen.
Morten: As with the hundred, you can say tusen without one in front and you can say ettusen.
Jasmine: So you have an option. Please use the one that fits you better. You can read 1,369 as tusen tusentrehundrasextionio…
Morten: Or as ettusentrehundrasextionio.
Jasmine: The choice is yours. What’s important is that ettusen gets two Ts if you spell it out.
Morten: Like English, Swedish allows for a maximum of two identical consonants in a row.
Jasmine: That’s right. Of course, compounding works differently in Swedish than in English.
Morten: Okay. So tusen very much works like hundra doesn’t it?
Jasmine: Exactly.
Morten: Let’s practice tusen a little – one thousand.
Jasmine: Tusen or ettusen.
Morten: Two thousand.
Jasmine: Tvåtusen. Four thousand five hundred.
Morten: Fyratusenfemhundra.
Jasmine: Six thousand seven hundred and fifty.
Morten: Sextusensjuhundrafemtio. Excellent. But I’m afraid we need to sign off now.
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Morten: Hej då, vi ses, tack tack!

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