Lesson 2 | Nouns and genders
- By MySwedish
- July 25, 2018
- 2:52 pm
- 5 Comments
In most languages, when talking about gender, we typically come up with a masculine, a feminine and a neuter but not in Swedish. We have only two choices in Swedish: every noun is either an ett or en noun.
I recommend you to memorise the gender of each word. It will help you with the creation of the definite form of the word as well as with other grammatical issues (adjectives for instance).
"EN gender" nouns
en KATT — a CAT
en TOMAT — a TOMATO
en POJKE — a BOY
en FLICKA — a GIRL
"ETT gender" nouns
ett DJUR — an ANIMAL
ett HUS — a HOUSE
ett PIANO — a PIANO
ett ÄPPLE — an APPLE
"THE" specific nouns
If you add en or ett in front of a word it is the equivalent to English a and an. And how do we make a the word in Swedish? In most cases you add en/ett at the end of the word or n/t if it ends with a vowel.
KATTEN — THE CAT
TOMATEN — THE TOMATO
POJKEN — THE BOY
FLICKAN — THE GIRL
DJURET — THE ANIMAL
HUSET — THE HOUSE
PIANOT — THE PIANO
ÄPPLET — THE APPLE
We have learned Swedish genders of nouns in today’s lesson. It looks pretty simple, right? But it wouldn’t be that nice if there weren’t any exceptions. For sure there are, it’s grammar. We will take a look at these exceptions later on in one of the up-coming lesson.
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Farel Saves Achmad
16 Aug 2018Tack sa mycket
MySwedish
16 Aug 2018Varsågod 🙂
Farel Saves Achmad
16 Aug 2018Thanks you very much
MySwedish
16 Aug 2018You are welcome!
Gabriel
19 Aug 2018Thank you