SWEDISH (sick language) 

French used to be popular with the aristocracy in Sweden sometime during the 18th and 19th century. There are some french loan words in Swedish. Examples are nivå - niveau, populär - populaire, schysst - juste, byrå - bureau, chaufför - chauffeur

@@moggadah interesting! could it be due to bernadotte becoming king of sweden during the napoleonic era? the same thing happened in England after William the Conqueror who brought lots of vocabulary from normand to English, giving fancy things fancy french words

@@wisedred it started before Bernadotte. I think they admired the French style. I think the elites in various european countries looked to France for inspiration. I think they all wanted to live like Louis XIV. Of course we're not talking regular people, they were busy making ends meet.

Especially when you only know _"some of the basics"_ and _"probably will learn Swedish some day"_ ... (5:36)

Swedish does have genders, even if it doesn't have male/female-gendered nouns - it's called grammatical gender, even though they're not associated with biological genders. They're called "common" and "neuter". Have a look here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_grammar - Greetings from a fellow Scandinavian :)

@@Doedling Fine, OK, by linguistic or grammatical definitions. But the average Svensson doesn't think of it as genders. It's nothing like in German or French where objects are female or male

@@matshjalmarsson3008 I totally agree with you on that, but in a video describing the language, I don't think it's wrong to use the linguistic terminology. I don't know what else he should have said, aside from maybe elaborating and explaining that common is with n-endings and neuter is with t-endings. But that would have been pretty confusing if he didn't use the actual terminology first.

@@Doedling OK, I don't really think it would be that complicated to say something like "Swedish doesn't call objects male or female, but we have two ways, T and N words" and then perhaps a couple of examples

@@matshjalmarsson3008 But when gender is the actual word for it, why not use that word? "T and n words" could mean all sorts of things, and "gender" and "t and n words" would be equally confusing to someone who doesn't know grammatical terms, whereas someone who does would actually know what "gender" means. After all, he's speaking to people who DON'T know Swedish and to whom "t and n words" might just as well mean "tertiary and nonary words" or some other bonkers thing. Sure, the examples afterwards would help clarify, but they might as well do that after he used the word "gender". Using the same term that's used for other languages means you can draw on experience from knowing about other languages, too. For example, even though it's not "he" and "she" in Swedish, it affects nouns in a similar way to what gender does in French and German, etc. - by affecting how you should conjugate associated adjectives, for example. If you just say "t and n words" you would have to explain every little aspect of the concept "gender" instead of just using that one simple word to convey all that meaning.