If English was like Swedish (Literal Translations) 

Every Swede: that wasn't even dark.

Raccoon in Swedish is tvättbjörn. Which translates to washbear. My cousin said washbear to her American boyfriend.

You should also do a video about how a space can do much difference in a word's meaning Brunhårig sjuksköterska = Brown haired nurse Brun hårig sjuk sköterska = Brown hairy sick nurse

Animals sure are the best ones though. Turtle - Sköldpadda - "shield toad" Bat - Fladdermus - "Flappy mouse" Octopus - Bläckfisk - "ink fish" Centipede - Tusenfoting - "thousand feeter"

Hospital- Sjukhus- Sick house :)

Some other good words are, mormor, morfar, farmor and farfar, this are the different names for the grandparents.

Snuskhummer is word for word: Dirty lobster - English equivalent: A pervert. Bajskorv is word for word: Poop sausage - English equivalent: Poop. Kofångare is word for word: Cow catcher - English equivalent: Bumper.

We sure got some funny words and I like when people point them out. Not that English is much better. Care to explain Butterfly? Smörfluga doesn't sound so good in Swedish.

I love the sound of "dust sucker", it sounds awesome, lol.

A "winter day" is an oxymoron in the same way a "summer night" is: The sun doesn't rise in the winter and it doesn't set in the summer. Well wishes from Kiruna 😉

Isn’t ”Tooth flesh” a more appropriate translation of tandkött?!

Chinese is the same. Teeth flesh for gum, Sucking Dust Machine for Vaccum Cleaner, Electric Brain for computer.... etc

How about "smörgåsrån"? Butter-goose-robbery ;)

Plugghäst, used to be a type of furniture for people to use for study and that is where the word plugghäst comes from.

Have u started to drink julmust and glögg yet?

Well, you do now roughly live on the same latitude as Anchorage (AK). Few notes. * Smörgås. The "gås" is an archaic old word, it is roughly the same as "klump" (clump), but has an implied sense more similar to "dumpling". It is referring to the clumps that is formed when making your own butter. So it is roughly saying "butter-lump". And yes, it is referring to the spread (compare BLT in english). Pretty much anyone who hasn't bothered to look it up will assume it refers to the goose as well (in nautical swedish you use the phrase "gäss på vågorna" (geese on the waves, used to describe rough seas (breaking waves))) and similar, which is one of the few instances where the "stuff that floats"-sense is the primary in use) * Tandkött. "kött" has a meaning that roughly means "flesh" in the sense of "fleshy bodypart". * Workhorse. "arbetshäst" (workhorse) exists in swedish as well, in fact, most horses are described as such "stridshäst" ~ combat horse (horse used by cavalry), "gruvhäst" ~ mine horse (horse used in mines), travhäst ~ racing horse, and so on. * Dammsugare. This is indeed "dust" "sucker", but "dam" is "lady". And making jokes about that someone is going to use their "ladysucker" or has "ladysucked" are common. (the "damm" is closer to (eng)"damn" than (eng)"dam", so if not very sure about your pronounciation trying the (eng-swe) "damn-sugare" tends to sound a lot closer than the (eng-swe) "dam-sugare")

If you try to translate "lussekatt" you´ll be on a whole other level of wierd interpretations.

Dust Sucker would be an awesome band name.

A video of you and friends going to julbord would be fun to see!

More videos like this one. We have sooo many words like this! :D

I am in Luleå in northeastern Sweden at the moment, and the sun starts rising at like 9 AM and then it sets at about 1:30 PM. I am dead serious. At least it's not long until the days start to get longer again. I also take vitamin D supplements every day, so I am quite fine. 8-)

Gift in Swedish means both Married and Poison

Riktigt rolig video att se på som svensk! Så kul att se din uppfattning av Sverige och det svenska språket😍

Cool and entertaining video, as always! I really enjoy this channel, keep up the great work!

Underbart att se, alltid lika kul när du visar Sverige genom dina ögon.

7:55 I think "bookworm" is a pretty decent way of translating plugghäst as well.

I really enjoy these swedish vs america kind of videos! I actually moved from Sweden to America not to long ago, which makes it even funnier😂 keep it up! :D

God jul! 🇸🇪 Glad att se denna video upladdad.

Springnota = "Run bill" = Dine and dash

Åh yeay, jag önskade detta. Det är alltid så roligt att höra vilka knäppa saker vi svenskar hittar på utan att vara medvetna om det. =) Du borde göra svenska ordspråk nästa gång. Tack för kul video!

You should looke into all the swedish/nordic/viking loanwords you have in English. The vikings raided north of England for a long period of time and one of the greatest battles in english history was with viking descendants (Battle of hastings) and because of that history you have a lot of nordic words in english. Most of them to do with war. Svärd/sword, kniv/knife, sköld/shield, torn/tower, husbonde/husband, vindöga/window (vindöga is the old word for window in swedish and still used in norwegian), klubba/club, saga/saga, rutten/rotten etc.

Kylskåp - Chill cupboard = Fridge :)

Sjusovare = Seven sleeper Morgontrött = Morning sleepy Örngott = Eagle yummy / eagle good Överkast = Over thrown Sängkläder = Bed clothes Andedräkt = Spirit clothes / Breath costume Tandtroll = Tooth goblins

"Can I see your Leg?" *Puts leg in the counter*

I really enjoyed this! You should make a part 2

Wow Stefan your really one of the coolest RU-vidrs i know :) Thanks alot for uploading your videos. Really cool channel, very glad that i found you! Riktigt cool kanal, och tack för alla roliga videor som du laddat upp! Hoppas att allt går bra med flytten till Stockholm. Lycka till/Good luck. Cheers!

English speakers are using at least one Swedish word and that is "ombudsman". I got a little confused the first time I heard it in English, but it meant the same as in Swedish. The only thing I found hard to accept was "the ombudsman" - the Swede in me woke up inside me and yelled "ombudsmannen for Christ's sake" but I managed to keep quiet.

Sjuksköterska= nurse Sjuk sköterska= sick nurse To seperate or not to seperate is the question!

Like the video can’t wait to see the videos you going to do next, really like the info, also the days there look just like a normal day here in central Illinois have a safe and happy day

Du har så bra kvalité på dina videor! Älskar det!👌🏼💕

Det är mysigt på ett vis så här års när man tänder ljusstakar och stjärnor och älskar ljuset och de långa dagarna på sommaren

I have a tip if you are more tired in the winter. Go outside 11 when its light, then you get more sun!

Fan, vad jag dog lite när du berättade om att visa legget på systemet😂😂😂Fan va bra!

Wow you are a quick learner👏🏼👏🏼You actually good at Swedish🇸🇪I’m from Sweden👍🏻👍🏻

I like the word smörgås. The etymology of the word is from how geese looks like on the water, like white things. When you put butter on your bread it looks like the geese on the lake, hence "smör" and "gås".

You should do a day In your life! Ps love your channel

I’m quite fond of the word for ”toys” leksaker, which litterally translates to ”playthings” 😂

Good stuff. Love the american perspective on Sweden. Binge watched all your videos haha. Subscribed :)

I mean.. sandwich sounds just as weird as smörgås x)

I love ”green things” ;) haha

Jag älskar dina videos👏🏼👏🏼

haha i love how you prenounce the words it sounds so funny!

yay ny video

Finns ju en till som är lite rolig också, "örngott" (pillow case).

Yes! The chillinuts are amazing! 👌

So close to 50k! I have been here since 200

as a californian in sweden this is crazy lol

i love winter. i love the dark and i love when its cold. Haha.

Thanks for a very interesting and funny video, haha. It really makes one reflecting how words are built up and how crazy the outcome will get when translating it literally. Maybe a follow-up later on. See you next time🎄🙂

Go to work when its dark, get home from work when its dark.. thank god im partly outside at work so I atleast get some sunlight xD

There used to be a simplification of "green things" in the past. Instead of saying e.g "eat green things" we would just say "eat green." and there was a joke about that: A man visited his doctor and was advised to "Eat green for a week" and when he came back to the doctor, he looked even worse and the doctor asked him if he had followed the instruction of just eating green. "Sure", he said, "Green potatoes, green bread, green bananas. . . " Today, when you say "eat green", it can mean "eat ecological". Fun fact. At one point in history, a swedish race-car driver was interviewed in english and at one point he wanted to say "It's not the speed that kills you, it's the crash", only he didn't know the english word for speed so he used the swedish (fart) and he didn't know the english word for crash/boom so he used the swedish (smäll) so what came out was "It's not the fart that kills you, it's the smell".

Germanic languages are famous for so called compound words

these pronunciations are gold

Omg this is hilarious because I have never thought of words such as dammsugare to be anything out of the ordinary, until you said it in English.

Well, I'd translate it into tooth flesh and not tooth meat, since the word "meat" in English kinda implies that it's food. But I guess since "kött" could mean either flesh or meat, I'm really just splitting hairs

Fladdermus - flappy mouse 🦇🦇

I think the reason that we haven't got mad and start to ”kill” each other in this winter darkness is simply the fact that we're able to look to the Future and know that it literally will be a better and brighter tomorrow if we just hold out a bit longer

This is so funny and interesting, thank you! From Sandra, a Swedish write-interpreter (skriv-tolk) as we call it.

Man, I'd love to eat a butter goose right now

Grönsaker

I get so excited when I come across these words as I'm learning Swedish. I see them and break them down and almost always know what they are. When I first saw kylskåp I thought, "Chill cabinet?" Oh! Like an icebox or fridge. I didn't know if kyl by itself meant chill, but it sounded like it, and it made sense. I did the same thing with skrivbord as you did... I knew köksbord already which helped. Another one was fladdermus (flutter or flitter mouse)... which is a bat. Although a bat isn't a rodent (they're my favorite animal, don't get me started)... this is the same concept as the German word for bat (which I basically knew from the opera Die Fledermaus).

In Sweden Valentine’s Day is called Alla hjärtans dag, which translates into All Hearts’ Day.

Even if I don’t have a concrete plan for going to Sweden, should I still learn the language. It is kind of fun to learn, it just seems like a lot of work for something I might never use.

Jag älskar mörkret, det är så mysigt :)

I wish I could go to America to get some sunlight during winter! This autumn/winter we had like 1 and a half month without any sun and it was just so depressing and it almost gave me panic attacks. Since I live in the middle of Sweden I am not used to that at all!

These translations are hilarious 😂

hey would it not be funny to do a video about swedish polynoms, words that are spelled and pronounced the same but mean different things and how wrong it could get without context XD

Swedish and german is similar

Butter goose comes from when you churn butter. Small pieces of butter would float up on top of the milk and swim around like geese. Since you use butter on a sandwich I guess that word stuck meaning just sandwich.

My dad usually says dustsucker instead of vacuum-cleaner (dammsugare in swedish) which is hilarious

Hoping to travel to Sweden and we're originally from Portland, Oregon! Our channel is 50% Hollywood, we're actor's, and 50% travel SOON! Sweden is our goal ! Thanks for the info!

How many procent of you watchers are from Sweden?

Love your videos!!! 😇😇

You’re pronunciation on the letter ä is really good, you sounded like a Swede when you said ”häst”

The Green stuff are often the first thing you come to when you enter most stores. :P

I love this about Swedish! 😂 Barnvagn - Baby wagon Snorkråka- Snot Crow

The best name for a speed bump must surely be the british "sleeping policeman". "- Just hit a sleeping policeman, go back to sleep". Love that.

When you make butter at home you use a "smörtina" and in it you use cream of course. When butter starts to grow, small pieces of butter are flowing and they were called geese before. These "geese" were "lagom" to put on a piece of bread.

Hey Stefan! Merry X-mas! What about you could make a video about sayings and how fun they can be translated? I mean we say "ingen fara på taket"....sound so silly in english, and there´s a lot of these jokes... "what are you for one"? :)

I like it, I learned swedish and english words :) ! It's actually pretty funny, I never thought of translating the swedish words I learned when I was there.

We have «Vinmonopolet» or «polet» as we call it in Norway. And one year they had an big commercial in a News paper (?), atleast. The commercial said that they had a lot of wine unsold and that people had to bring their own buckets to get the wine for free. Note this was on april the first.

I believe you. Here in Norway it is the exact same thing.

The word "Window" is related to a old Scandinavian word "Vind øje/öga" meaning "wind eye". It was a open hole in the wall that would help ventilate whenever you would have an open fire in the middle of your house, hut or longhall.

Yes, in southern Sweden sun sets around 3 o'clock. Gothenburg lies at the same latitude as Aberdeen and Skåne (Scania) where I live now is situated about as north as southern Scotland-Northern England. So guess Sun sets around 3 o'clock pm there also.

And dustsucker! There's a classic ad from back in the fifties or whenever, when the Swedish dustsucker manufacturer Electrolux tried to get a foothold in the USA, and used the brilliant slogan "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux"!

I had the opposite problem when I lived in the south of Sweden. There was a night and day cycle even during summer and winter, freaked my brain out a bit at first.

Hahahaha this WAS funny we in sweden have really funny words if you translate it on english😂

Smörgås does actually come from the time some 500 years ago when we made butter at home. The butter floated on the surface in the wood bucket and looked like a goose.

How funny! The Myanmar language is like that too. It always cracks me up but you're right in that it makes it a lot easier to learn the language! For example, "stomach" translates to "food house" hahaha

I like the dark druing the winter. It's the light at nighttime in the summer that sucks. In winter, it's the cold that's the problem.