None of the names are pronounced like they are spelled or have the same number of syllables you think they should have and they just sound weird once you know how to pronounce it correctly.

How IKEA names its items: Bathroom articles = Names of Swedish lakes and bodies of water Bed textiles = Flowers and plants Beds, wardrobes, hall furniture = Norwegian place names Bookcases = Professions, Scandinavian boy’s names Bowls, vases, candle and candle holders = Swedish place names, adjectives, spices, herbs, fruits and berries Boxes, wall decoration, pictures and frames, clocks = Swedish slang expressions, Swedish place names Children’s products = Mammals, birds, adjectives Desks, chairs and swivel chairs = Scandinavian boy’s names Fabrics, curtains = Scandinavian girl’s names Garden furniture = Scandinavian islands Kitchen accessories = Fish, mushrooms and adjectives Lighting = Units of measurement, seasons, months, days, shipping and nautical terms, Swedish place names Rugs = Danish place names Sofas, armchairs, chairs and dining tables = Swedish place names

@@bearllande Amazing.

once you know the rules (easy to look up), it's actually easier to pronounce them than english. Because unlike english, swedish has pronunciation rules :D

@@huawafabe until you come across the numerous exceptions 😂 An example...cykel and cykel are two different word depending on how you pronounce it.

So threatening yet so pleasant

That's very handy in many situations

😂😂

It’s like the Swedish version of you’ve yeed your last haw

Yes it is very good. But my favourite would be I suspect there is owls in the woods

verkligen asså

Ja eller så är det bara göteborgska

@@elle-kari jae från gbg ja skulle säga att han låter som en Stockholmare

@@elle-kari Han låter inte alls som en göteborgare.

han låter extremt porrig och arg på samma gång

This really made me laugh!

😂😂😂

🤣🤣🤣

Asking about planting his potato in relation to a date sounds like something else 😂

@@michelleresistance did he plant the eggplant?

Lol yes that works :D

Reassuring people in English: everything is on the right

You also can say "There's no cow on the ice". Works just as fine.:)

@@garbokatten thanks for telling me. I love learning these idioms worldwide

Archita Das yup!

I just dropped my phone becuz i was laughing so hard at this. Well played. Lol

That sent me in a total fit of laughter! Omg! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Now you donedidit, buddy

Yes indeed. A death threat!

It's 2 am and I'm still laughing at this comparison

YES 🙌🏻😆

I'm going to say that to my teenage son next time he mouths off at me 😂😂

"Du har satt din sista potatis." (Translation: "You have planted your last potato.") is a Swedish figure of speech which is almost equivalent to our figure of speech, "You are on my last straw!" in English.

Gonna use that in class tomorrow 😆

kinda like "out of the pot, into the frying pan" which means, shits going down, or it's escalated.

Out of the frying pan into the fire

Beautiful 😅

that sounds super interesting

I love that oh my fuckin GOD😭😭

Lindsay Daly Was i need the soundtrack NOW!

Sounds more Swiss/Austrian than Swedish.

@@douglaskalberg8899 or bavarian

It's dansband music x

It kind of sounds like the background of My Summer Car.

@@marcosandoval1367 and they´re many

It’s the swedish genes

the answear is : Sup Dig Snygg :D

Mr. Northman you still look hot af 😂

I'm so crushing on his dad!

it wasn't what he did, he just directly translated what it said.

I thought the same!! Seems intelligent.

He's so fluent in English (especially American English) that he sounds like a native speaker. Funny thing is, he only moved to the States when he was 26 lol. He must've moved around so much with his dad and watched so many American films that he picked it up naturally. English is also a common second or third language to learn in Sweden since they are so similar.

@@DerpASherpa117 wow he was that old already? you're right maybe he was already exposed to american media back then

@@DerpASherpa117we start learning english when were like 6-7 in sweden, so if you move to the US the transition to having an american accent would come quite quick and natural

Why would you love that??

@@SluttChops haha because when we have a crush on someone we love their flaws, defects that those people have 😆

Thelma Romero love that

Tror det bara för att han är stockholmare

That's what happens when you switch rapidly between languages - you get "echoes" in pronunciation and prosody. Try it for yourself.

Valerie Vedette samma här! Älskar det! 😂🙌🏻

Samma här... Trodde att jag var ensam och konstig i det...

Lucas Kristiansson 😂 Det bästa är när man ser andra svenskar i kommentarerna

Hahah ja

Jo fan, det lär ju va 99% svennar här dock

*raises hand rapidly* MEMEMEME

Yes!

Friend crush I'd say :) ADOPT ME!

me me me

Man, even the dad is hot.

He is trying to translate “mossen” in his head and can’t come up with it. It’s “the bog” not “the woods”.

what bothered me is that mossen doesn't mean woods it means moss

it means neither of what you just said@@The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare

😶

thats my favorite too! I busted a gut laughing

Right? That one is gold!

We have lots of food slang in Sweden🤔 another one is ”now the boiled pork is fried!” Like ”this is it, You’re going down!”

That is one of my favorite slangs in Sweden lmao

*intercom* "The potato has been planted."

Exactly!! XD

Sounds like something Rolf would say...

I'm dead lol I can just see me saying that to my kid... U have planted ur last potato Mr 😁 😁 😁

Rebelle you better dig out that potato gurl.

Casual Weekday -YT shadowbangs U- can’t I be here for him and the language?!

@@kylie9687 Ana ugglor i mossen.

Absolutely!!

Yes, I am. Just because it's taught by a potato-planting bowl of porridge with gorgeous owls in the woods has nothing to do with it!

@@ladywytch129 I rest my case ;)

That's the only way we can drink in sweden

Thanks for the support

Thanks 😊

How Are you, I will like to know you

Chrissy Teigen does too. It's TIE-gan not TEE-gan.

So does Charlize Theron. Its actually pronounced "tron" with the "r" rolled and a fuller sounding "o"

Eevee Swedish singer Zara Larsson does the same thing.

Its weird how the fams of those mentioned it never addressed it. It would save the derpy, embarrassed moment... My parents knew the right pronunciation of my last name but never corrected me. All this time.. non-vietnamese people had said my name right for all these years. I want to cry

I kind of comes naturally though as a swede speaking English. I do it too, and a lot do. The melody of the English language vs for instance the swedish are so different so it feels weird to switch to the swedish melody mid sentence just to say your name. Which will be pronounced wrong by the other person any way, and swedes hate that kind of awkwardness. 😅😅

A somewhat old fashioned and convoluted (but perfectly legitimate) sentence to be used when a student steps out of line would be: "Nu är det kokta fläsket stekt! Du har satt din sista potatis och kommer få dina fiskar varma!" Directly translates to "The boiled pork is now fried! You have planted your last potato and will have your fish warm!" In essence, and in that situation, this would mean: "I have reached my limit! You are way over the line and you're due for punishment!" NOTEWORTHY: These are old proverbs, and I cannot imagine this sentence being said in a classroom today, but back it up about 40 or 50 years, and it might have happened! :)

Can i join your class. Please?

Winging It Lol, as long as you are okay with being in kindergarten, 😂

@@KpopKnitter absolutely. Let's go!

I was thinking the same thing 😂

Omg you wouldn’t like that, it is beautiful, but is only nice to spend only vacations here, the winter is the most depressing thing, it’s all dark for 9 or 10 months, and the people here is reserved, you don’t make much friends which makes it even more sad

@@vanessaduquenegrete3571 Indeed, I live here for almost 4 years, I have barely 2 friends xD

@@arkaitz7605 then u just anti social, ive made over 20friends these last 9months

@@vanessaduquenegrete3571 exactly i lived in sweden for 3 years and boi did that country mess me up mentally

Only if all the men look like the Skarsgard men

yes...that’s about right

No, you would say: "Nu är det kokta fläsket stekt, din jävel" If theres another Swede around he will know that shit's about to get serious for real.

@@toxicteabaging well i can’t argue with that

@@toxicteabaging what does that mean?

Yes, i see how that's funny. But we really do say that 😂

It doesn't count if you don't say it in swedish. ;)

You have pooped in the blue cupboard!

😂😂😂

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bK6iddxnm9TVnJ8.html angry swede using that sentence

KILLING IT!!! :D

Sugar pig, you've just planted your last potato.

Elestro Air-soft haha .. “so let’s skip the fika today” 😂

It doesn't really fit into that context, imagine someone eating a lot of candy or cookies then you can call them "sockergris" to be kind of shameful

😂😂😂

In addition, most Swedes do not know who the Swedish Chef is.

Ahh you don't say...

and Swedish fish is not what I thought 😂

he just was a Ukrainian chef

😂

lite kul ändå att han säger skarsgard till sig sjölv för att andra ska förstå ahha

And it was totally beautiful 😁😊😍🥰

Hahha jo fan men på engelska låter allt som "SkarsGUARD" Jävla massa' vakt familjer xD

Detta fick mig att skratta😂 Han låter faktiskt lite aggressiv haha

terrorblades 😂😂😂

Danish sounds like the last potato you planted was right on your toung.

yess 😍😍

YES!! I agree

Omgosh Mads... Who would you rather; Alexander or Mads?? I have no answer at the moment bc just picturing both. Lol 🤣🤗🤗🤗

That would be amazing.

Ok glad I’m not the only one ☝️

Cause he’s hot duh

Hahahahaha

I didnt know how to react to this at first 😂😂😂

I WILL PAY ANY AMOUNT FOR THIS

OMG YESSS

Yes please!

He and Tom were almost in the same movie/movies. Alex was 1 of 3 remaining actors up for the role as Thor.

Yessssss!!

mistertee lmao!

Ah! giod one.

mistertee lmaoooooooooooooooooo

🤣

Right, lmao.. so gorgeous 😊😊

HEJ PÅ DIG MONIKA

Hej monika, hey på dig monikaaaa

KALLA BLICKAR KALLA KÅRAR DU VARA BARA FJORTON VÅRAR! TA MIN HAND OCH VISA MIG VÄGEN JAG ÄR DIN I ALLA LÄGEN

😂

Precis som lutande tooornet i pisa!!

Mon Soymon in north of sweden it’s called go’ fika when you ad cookies and cakes 😂 It doesn’t excist in the south (or not when I lived there in 2009) 🤔. I thought “GO’fika” was such a ugly remake on “Fika” when I moved here.. 😅 And especially with a north accent.. 😖😅

It sounded really good when he explained it but adding cakes and cookies makes it just perfect.

@@VanessaLjungdahl I live in the south right now and have done my whole life. Never heard "Gofika" down here. I have heard it in media but never in "real life".

@@stoffni Really? I live in Småland and have heard it lots of times. ^_^

@@Fnattihatt Woaah serious? I've never heard it anywhere in Skåne or Blekinge.

Yes, I second this decision.

OMG YEEEES PLEASE!!

YAS!

yes

Sebastian needs to do this, thrist tweets, going undercover, playing with puppies and the compliment one. Yes I’m greedy 🤭

Malin Hellman Yeah, so, basically the noble and superior version of slang

Not fika or lagom all swedes use those. Also precis!

Malin Hellman So true. Nowadays stuff like ”aboooo”, ”haffa guzz”, ”jag ska knulla din mamma” and so on. The old sayings are a lot better.

@@TechnoLion1 Har på riktigt inte hört en själ säga varken aboo eller haffa guzz sen typ 2012 och den sista är inte ens slang? Bara en mening hahaha

Johannes Stark Bara afrikaner och araber med sitt ortenspråk

Agreed.

Never realized he could be this good looking :):)

FYI , we look all the same here in Sweden ;)

literally 😩 I drool over him and Pewdiepie

You’re not the only one 😂

Daniel Shack the man could make a potato sac look good. 🤷🏼‍♀️

So true! I am particularly averse to turtlenecks on ppl but idm them on him!

Bec New agreed; turtlenecks should not look good on anyone... and yet here he is... slaying it every time. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Daniel Shack turtlenecks with suits is a great look. It helps to think of it as a shirt replacement instead of something to wear over a shirt.

@@Kinography i think it would actually look better without the suit jacket.

AHHHH OH MY GOD SAME

Same!

Saame

Totally fell in love with him for memory loss Eric & am now realizing that's him. Lol Gonna look up everything he's ever done now

That's exactly the same for me wtf😂😍😍

I agree with you, same here 💋💋💋🔥🔥🔥💋💋😜😜😜

Based. Most Swedes settled in Chicago tho, appearantly. I read.

KristianaMarine yes we are😊

I think of Rose on Golden Girls, nice.

Well.... We can be a bit hot on the porrige.

I went to Sweden five years ago. It's a beautiful country and everyone is freakishly good looking.

They really are! We went for about a week last year and it was one of my favorite countries!

"Alex kommer att få mig att bli gravid" something like that lol

Alex kommer göra mig gravid

Alex kommer få mig på smällen

You plant your last potato?

Abaza

He´s just lagom

Hejsan! ;)

"You've yeed your last haw!"

sounds funny but since potatos were very important and kept us alive in our poor days it kind of makes sense!

As a swed i can confirm

Du har dragit det sista stråt

Indeed they do.

Bex yes they really do Sverige för svenskarna!

meh

Well 42 isn't really old. Ofc I could be biased since I'm 41 xD

I always thought he was so much younger than me. He seems like he's 32-34. Good genes.

DADDY.

Grimm Kat Kinky😎😈.

I think he looks older than that

David beautiful huge hands☺

and that means!!!

Large hands, large...gloves.

He can play Jack Reacher

lo vi we all know what’s probably really BIGG

HAHA THAT'S GREAT

Golly, I don't know which is better between those two.

Javla

Lol Fika means snot in Hungarian

Sums it up pretty good.

Very correct

I think that's true for pretty much every foreigner working in Sweden

Step two?

+Fredrik Erlandsson be a Skarsgärd

Well guess I look as good as him then 😂

Mariana F Skarsgård*

Then I look as good as Alex, hurrayyy.

Yes, he's very encouraging.

...except he spelled "Dra mig baklänges" wrong. He forgot the "s" on the last word... :D

@@Daffob1nt oh well, I think I'll let that slide for now :D 🤣🤣

@@devonputra4362 it's just that I'm a stickler for correct spelling. But he's such a sweetie, so I'll let it slide, too! :)

His delivery and body language is cracking me up. Love him.

Yeah, Rosetta Stone should hire this daddy to teach us everything.

Siiiii l'ho appena commentato! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Italians are so up themselves

What does it mean in italian?

@@PrincessLockette you can not write it here

jeez, take a chill pill then -would be a proper response to that.

Aye me töo

Dra mig bäklange

He would have been a really fine Lucifer 😍

I have always thought the same thing!

After seeing Alexander in Hold the Dark, I can say that yeah, that seems about right.

Yes, I can FEEL the logic of that in my fantasy... 🤪🙏

Im ok with Tom Ellis. Alexander looks more like God to me.

Here here!😂

Me too! 😂

Same

Hereeee sameee

Saaaaame lol

SAME

Me too. He is incredibly handsome

@@miriamcip he's so hot

same

Same, he's gorgeous. Love his voice too (and his Swedish) though.

Racism is funny!

Svenska Tabbar what racism

I'm not being racist actually, i have read most of these terms in ikea. Especially Fika and sockergris. The ikea in my country has note boards in every corner, explaining popular Swedish slangs.

Kriti Singh Chauhan he don’t know what racism is. Racism is slavery and holocaust.

That’s offensive...

Ugh god that smoulder when he says that...

Hahahah just a tip, here in Sweden we usually dont actually say most of these things, like i have never heard someone actually say "you have planted your last potato" or "no danger on the roof" in sweden

How do you think we stay warm in the winter?

well he is for sure

Not all of us are hot.

Nordic girls for me. Trust me, I've been to Norway and not the country

Skurtavus Grodolfus this is why I married one... and he married a part Nordic woman

Viva la figa e che Dio la benedica.

I always confuse it whenever coming across Swedish. It’s too ingrained

Fika means snot in Hungarian.

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ellerhur, jag tänkte det skulle vara orre eller back dig

men fortfarande väldigt bra

kajsablomberg precis!

Skrev precis samma sak innan jag såg din kommentar.

@@nickilouisedesouzadato90 lite konstigt att låta alexander skarsgård läsa orre och back dig när orre kommer från turkiska och de nästan bara används av kids i orten

Or "hissen går inte hela vägen upp" and "inte alla hästar hemma" which are my two personal favourites.

MAAAANNEEEEEENNNN!!!!!!!

@@GastonBoucher Jag fick höra en rolig av en norrländska: "Hen har ju inte alla getter parkerad" utan e på slutet av parkerade;-)

And you’re just gonna leave us hangin’ by not translating these? Have a soul

pr3ttyang3l3 the first one: you laught, you lose.

😂