What to say at the Supermarket (In Sweden) - Learn Swedish in a Fun Way! 

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Well... you don't really have to "ask" for a bag. At least not at the grocery store. Ideally, once you are at the register, behind the band, there is a bunch of bags. Small, big and huge. You just grab one bag put it in the band, with the other products you bought. They will charge you for the bags (which are not cheap). So you dont really need any kind of human interaction in there xD

A shame that you didnt see this video before your Filmjölk incident 😂. Could have saved you from a near death experience

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Can't say we tasted the Icelandic "súrmjólk". So can't really answer this one 😅. It does sound like it would be roughly the same. It being "sour milk". At least is makes more sense that "butter milk". That one is probably not the same 🤔. Though I can't really tell 😅

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It looks like buttermilk is "Kärnmjölk" in Swedish. I think filmjölk is a bit thicker than buttermilk. But I can't say I have a lot of experience with butter milk. So it might be somewhat similar :D

@@FunSwedish Lol, most people don't want *any* experience with buttermilk :).

Is filmjölk something like kefir?

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There is usually a laktosfri variant on almost anything (if the supermarket is big enough)

Oh, and if you want to do a video correcting 'bad Swedish' in comments, feel free to use mine ;)

That was pretty good Swedish. I understood everything, which is what matters, isnt it? :D Back to the question... you don't really have to "ask" for a påse (bag). At least not at the grocery store. Ideally, once you are at the register, behind the band, there is a bunch of bags. Small, big and huge. You just grab one bag put it in the band, with the other products you bought. They will charge you for the bags (which are not cheap). So you dont really need any kind of human interaction in there xD

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Great point! But as long as you are not getting filmjölk... it is only slightly dissapointing rather than catastrphic 😊

In the Netherlands we have very lightblue (magere melk 0,5%), lichtblue (halfvolle melk 1,5%) and darkblue (volle melk 3,5%). The red one is the buttermilk and green is yoghurt.

@@marjoleinw4100 interesting, isn't it confusing just having different shades of blue? I guess you'd get used to it 😊

@@annar6294 not when you are used to it... 😉

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Sorry there, that's the latin part of me pointing to my eye to signal "watch out!" 😅 Not really a Swedish thing.

@@FunSwedish Thank you for the reply. Very interesting. :-)

Good question! They can say it in different ways but it could be "Skriv in din pinkod" or "ange din pinkod" 🙂

You should not have any problem getting the kvitto in the supermarket or any other stores. If thet don't give it to you then you can always say "Skulle jag kunna få kvittot, tack?" :)

The recipt from the cash register will typically have info like date/time, total amount, gross/net/VAT, payment method and if cash,amount received and change returned. Also the company's organisationsnummer (corporate ID, much like a persons 'personnummer. ) I don't see how they'd get YOUR company's ID on there without adding it by hand (I doubt most grocery store style cash registers have any means of inputting random text on a receipt (a system using essentially a full computer (screen, keyboard etc) could likely do it, but that's normally not what they have in a grocery store, more likely in other places) - and adding by hand you could do yourself... If a company were to send an invoice to your company then that would be no issue (need the VAT regitration number too, for reverse VAT charge within EU) But that wouldn't be the typical situation for a grocery store... Curious, how would you/they deal with a receipt from say a ticket machine where no human interaction is available? Frankly, it seems a pointless requirement. If you're handing it in that should be it (as long as the purchase is within the scope of the company, follow guidelines for expenses etc), I mean, you could just as easily ask a company to put that number on the receipt for something that doesn't/shouldn't qualify. Or am I missing something?

Great question! Vill ha du ha en påse? or sometimes they just say "påse"? (påse = bag)

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hej hej :)

I think that filmjölk is a bit sweeter but it is perhaps a bit similar.

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We do use the dividers :) Of course it depends on how crowded the place is, and now with more social distancing we are using it less. But sure. Hope this video makes your next Swedish supermarket experience less terrifying :D

Do they even ask that? Anyway it would be ”Vill du ha en påse/kasse?”

In grocery stores/supermarkets the bags are typically stored under the belt, before the cashier, so you just pick the bags you need and put on the belt along with the other items. You are likely to get the question in other stores though, say a bookstore. Also, the plain/normal plastic bags are heavily taxed, so many reuse the bags and bring them with them when going shopping, plastic and paper). Most supermarket/big box chains also sell sturdier plastic bags (woven plastic w/ sewn nylon carrying straps/handles) that last a long time, for usually not much more (not taxed due to multiple use) than the plain ones, that is just for this type of reuse/bring with you.

Yeah I can understand what they say it in swedish something like ''posay''😃

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@@FunSwedish Interesting. Hope there is some explanation for it : )

Great points! Interesting, never though about those small cents you can't get back in chash. Might be becacuase we pay most things with card / digitally, so it doesnt make that much of a difference 🤔.

1.5% is "mellanmjölk" (middle milk, usually green packaging/text. 3% is our standard milk, usually red, "lättmjölk" (light/skimmed milk) is 0.5%, usually blue.

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