Comments on: What Time Is It?

By: locke

locke — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:07:31 +0000

Very good “klock” post! I’m glad I discovered this blog:)

By: James

James — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:39:07 +0000

haha I’m English with a Swedish girlfriend, so I had to have a little chuckle regarding your guy relying on you to fill in the gaps to his Svenska (sounds very familiar). I promised min flickvän 12 months ago, I would be fully conversant in Svenska within 6 months, needless to say it hasn’t quite worked out like that!
I’m currently on my 5th visit to Sweden, but due to the fact most Swedish people speak English, I lazily slip back into U.K mode.Furthermore, I must pass comment on how much harder Svenska is than what I was expecting (I think that’s due to the grammar seeming to be the other way round) . Well, I’ve bought Rosetta Stone now so no excuses, wish me luck

By: Kenia

Kenia — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:29:45 +0000

thanks for your explanation Ölänning! I actually wondered why they wrote it as “dags” with an “s”, but then I thought it was just an expression, if you know what i mean.

By: Ölänning

Ölänning — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:02:04 +0000

kenia – Dags is an old form of dag meaning something “in/on the day” so “Hur dags?” means something like “what time of the day”. It will sound natural when Swedish ahs become a natural language to speak for you

By: Kenia

Kenia — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:40:20 +0000

Absolutely weird!
i think some of the time-related expressions are even unnatural, like “Hur dags?”. That one wins first prize! =D
But then again it’s a matter of practice.
Great post Anna!