Different ways to pronounce the letter "R" in Swedish

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2 жыл бұрын

We have gotten a lot of questions about the letter "R" in Swedish, so today's video talks about just that!
Depending on whether a word starts with an R or if certain letters come after, then the pronunciation can be very different. Sometimes it almost disappears!
In this video, we go over the different combinations and pronunciations for this tricky letter in Swedish. Please keep in mind that the pronunciations in this video are representative of a Stockholm dialect. There are other ways to pronounce R in different parts of Sweden.
Overview:
Words that START with R typically have a hard R sound, like rolling the R.
When R is followed by a D T N or L, the R is almost silent.
R + G creates a Y sound, like Yee.
R + S creates a shhh sound.
Video edited by @MeaganNouis
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@philwa22 2 жыл бұрын

"R" has been one of the big things I've struggled with in terms of pronunciation, so guides like this help a lot! thanks!

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

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@ylva571 4 күн бұрын

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@oldmanwinter1405 2 жыл бұрын

I am certainly enjoying learning Svenska with your guidance and will never stop since I continually go back and rewatch older lessons to help reinforce my weak skills. Tack.

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear that!

@zach1279 2 жыл бұрын

Tack så mycket! I've been learning Swedish this past month in prep for my study abroad in January! You're videos help tremendously!

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear that!

@chympmunck 2 жыл бұрын

How is your studying going? I'm self study as well

@TheAxisOfPerdition 2 жыл бұрын

This is the best channel. Such clear explanations, and the graphics are super helpful.

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

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@TheBillz123 2 жыл бұрын

thanks again Daniella for answering me and for the classes, i am enjoying the begginer to intermediate courses very much and learning a lot.

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful! So happy to hear that 😍

@Mossy-Rock 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this! A native English speaker trying to do a "rolled R?" It is one of the hardest things for us to accomplish as we have had absolutely no experience with it unless one was fortunate enough to take Spanish when young. It takes months of practice but still it can come out sounding off, muddy or sloppy. And sometimes it is near impossible with words with multiple Rs in them. Often, a rolled R just "fails to launch" when desired. The "sj" sound, as in "sju," is comparatively much easier to master.

@berenicetrevanion3366 2 жыл бұрын

It is exactly the opposite when you are a native Spanish speaker. No problem with the R, but the sj sound is very difficult! Not to mention all the different vowel sounds.

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear that! Worst case scenario... you can start talking Swedish with a Skåne accent and never roll any Rs 😂

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

Every language has its stong and weeks points I guess!

@amiwho3464 2 жыл бұрын

But you have the same sound in the name "Juan". That is exactly how the "sj" is prounounced in "Sju".

@EricaGamet 2 жыл бұрын

I've gotten really good at remembering "rs" as "shh" but it trips me up when the r belongs to one word and the s to the beginning of the next. The way Swedish looks at the sentence as a whole (like the r-s example or with stress patterns) is fascinating and hard to remember. I'll get the hang of it soon.... thank you for another great lesson... and I'm loving the new graphics!! They really stick in my brain!

@victord8866 2 жыл бұрын

Depends on the word. A lot of times the r is not pronounced if the following word starts with a consonant. So for example, "jag talar svenska" can sound like "ja tala svenska".

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

That is a good observation! Think as well that Swedish has a lot of "compound words". So there is a lot of making 2 words into one going on already 😊

@ajryangameaudio Жыл бұрын

This was a great explanation, thanks - subscribing!

@FunSwedish Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub!

@ajryangameaudio Жыл бұрын

@@FunSwedish You're welcome! :)

@maple494 2 жыл бұрын

we have to learn swedish in school but not swedish swedish but finnish swedish and we just pronounce it everytime it is used because thats the way it goes in finnish :-D

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

😁

@alejandrorosales5077 2 жыл бұрын

como siempre, explicaciones faciles de entender y muy divertidas . tusen tack.!!

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

Muchas gracias Alejandro! :)

@ismaelmadou189 5 ай бұрын

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@mariara3384 2 жыл бұрын

Like your other videos, I learned and enjoyed a lot, thank you very much!

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear that! 😍

@ailedjuarez9952 2 жыл бұрын

Tack så mycket!, now I get the "silent 'R' " , it was a doubt I had but couldn't put into words!

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear that it helped you have a better understanding 😊

@thatdoctorguy8503 Жыл бұрын

i want to move to stockholm and have been practicing swedish for a while now can cant get the r pronunciation down this video has made it alot easier tack så mycket

@FunSwedish Жыл бұрын

Happy to hear it was helpful! (Worst case scenario, you can do a softer R and have a partly Skåne accent 😁)

@moonsaer 2 жыл бұрын

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@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

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@abirmaria8873 2 жыл бұрын

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@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

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@davidbandini3484 2 жыл бұрын

Tack så mycket för videon! Grazie tante per il video :)

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

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@awegvvm-productions 2 жыл бұрын

As a Dutch guy with a German mother and speaking both languages and the English i learned in school, i've got the hard and soft "r" covered pretty well. Also the uu , ö and ä is not a problem. If i hear the swedish pronounciation i can imitate the sound pretty well. It's the rules that some letters are pronounced different when followed by certain letters is the tricky part. And the en and ett words. You just have to learn that. And also Swedish is much more sangy than other languages and the emphasis is often different than in Dutch and German. My family is making fun off me that i'm trying to learn a bit of Swedish😅 They keep asking WHY?! Well duh... because it's cool haha! I hope i have the determination to really learn this. Your lessons are very usefull and fun to follow! Thank you so much 👍

@michaelsamaan902 2 жыл бұрын

MAGNIFICENT😍

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

Tack 😍

@draug7966 6 ай бұрын

If you're learning Swedish and you can't roll the R it's not a super huge deal cause the further south you get in sweden, the more the R starts to kinda resemble the German or maybe the French R anyway. So if you can do that type of R's it still works, it just sounds less formal.

@marcelofernandes341 2 жыл бұрын

So kind of you

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

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@06k-malikk44 2 жыл бұрын

Hej! Tack så mycket ☺️

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

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@CouchPolyglot 2 жыл бұрын

Tack så mycket, jag tycker att det är mycket användbart :)

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

Tack! 😍

@zcxzdsaxcvz9025 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for helping me understand this R sound ❤ Now I finally undertood Göteborg is not pronounced Gothenburg but Yotenboyee 😂😂

@MrMirville Жыл бұрын

Tack sao mycket.

@FunSwedish Жыл бұрын

Varsågod :)

@mmzddx96 Жыл бұрын

Hehe, I love the color of your sweater -- royal blue. So beautiful.

@FunSwedish Жыл бұрын

Oh thank you!

@mmzddx96 Жыл бұрын

@@FunSwedish you are so welcome. My favorite color -- orange. Why? 'Cuz it's not everyday you'll meet a person whose favorite color is orange.

@srinivasanastro5679 Жыл бұрын

Thank you sister

@FunSwedish Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome 😊

@silvinagonzalezgoytia3644 Жыл бұрын

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@FunSwedish Жыл бұрын

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@ralfschramm4067 2 жыл бұрын

Tack sa mycket! Det passar mig bra, eftersom jag lär mig ocksa Ryska och Spanska - Rrrrrrollin' ! Beste Grüße, atentamente, Ralf

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

Vad rrrrrrroligt!

@anastasiiabovsunovska7534 2 жыл бұрын

I work for a Swedish company, and in the beginning I was very confused why my colleague's name "Lars" is pronounced by other colleagues as "La:shh". I preferred to call him Lasse all the time to avoid that "rs" sound . :D Now I got used to that letter combination. I also notice that sometimes my Swedish colleagues replace "rs" with "sh" in English as well, which I find cute. :) BTW, your hair color is amazing!

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

That is a great approach as well! Noticing which mistakes Swedes make when speaking English, will give you clues about how Swedish logic works 😊.

@chriskeller1627 Жыл бұрын

Rolled R at the beginning of a word is very common in standard Swedish, but if you move to Skåne (Southern Sweden), then the letter R will sound just like Danish, German, or French R, that is, the R sound will come from the back of the throat...

@hilmiyafia 2 жыл бұрын

Hello, thank you so much for explaining, but I heard some swedish pronounce the R as L, is this true?

@Yohann_Rechter_De-Farge 2 ай бұрын

Tack 🌹🌷🌺

@salilsahani2721 2 жыл бұрын

Tack :)

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

😊

@minirop 2 жыл бұрын

that's why I love Swedish. Since I "forgot" how to roll my R (for not doing so for the past 20 years), I can just use the French "R" and say I'm from Skåne.

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

Claming you have the Skåne accent is a great excuse 😂

@aaxxyy 2 жыл бұрын

😂But the Skånska R doesn’t sound like the French R at all. It’s more like the English R but from the bottom of your throat.

@minirop 2 жыл бұрын

@@aaxxyy but they are (on a general level, since of course they can have different realisations), see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttural_R and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_uvular_fricative

@aaxxyy 2 жыл бұрын

minirop Well, maybe the Skånska R and the French R are usuing the some way (both using the bottom of throat l) to pronounce, but the sounds the are different. For example, in the word Paris, French and Skånska pronounce the “ri”sound differently.

@amiwho3464 2 жыл бұрын

The French version is just deeper

@mab3900 2 жыл бұрын

As a French speaker, it is also hard to do a rolled R. I become quite okay, but it depends, I still struggle sometimes, but not as much as I used to. I would be easy for me to have a southern Swedish accent... but I'm trying to have a standard Swedish accent, so no I won't

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

Keep trying and you will get there 😊

@wangyixiang6538 8 ай бұрын

😭😭😭I failed to pronounce the rolled R, it is hard!!! is there any tips? Thank you

@Istomina_patterns Жыл бұрын

Hello! Thanks for this video, it's very helpful! I can hear in words "barn, karta, bord, farlig" you pronounce vowels as long sounds though in videos about vowels you said that it should be short before two consonants. Why is it so?

@FunSwedish Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Nice! You are observant and have a good ear 👏 The rule is a "rule of thumb". It works almost 100% of the time with double consonant when the consonant is the same. eLL, måTT and things like that. Also with "same consonant sound". Like boCK (since C and K have the same sound... sometimes). But again, is a "rule of thumb" with quite a few exceptions. R is tricky here... you have all examples of week Rs... rn, rt, rf, rl which in Swedish they can be very silent. Almost as if it wasnt there. There are also expections with compound words. Which should be really thought as 2 words Ut + tal = uttal (pronunciation). And the U is still long 😅.

@efutabyiringiro8460 2 жыл бұрын

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@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

😍😍

@mcgibs 2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering why "hamburgare" had a Y sound for the G despite it being before an A, but then I remembered it's a place that it's named after. Hamburg, pronounced like "hamburry". Thus, "hamburY-are".

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Great connection 😊. You will surely remember it that way!

@mcgibs 2 жыл бұрын

@@FunSwedish There's also a clear marketing opportunity if someone from say, Göteborg made their own kind of burger. Göteborgaren.

@krm1079 Жыл бұрын

Most difficult to pronounce for me is when the R is following a vowel for example the words "ELLER" or "HUR" "VAR" etc. are absolutely imposssible to pronounce for some reason..most difficult one though is "eller", so if you can make a video about r-following after vowels it would be really appreciated by many I think..

@FunSwedish Жыл бұрын

Yes, sure! We can do that. Thanks for the tip!

@michaelsamaan902 2 жыл бұрын

excuse me daniella ....i have a question please...... the letter before r +(d,n,t,l) ,how we spell it long or short ? Thx

@berenicetrevanion3366 2 жыл бұрын

I'm no expert, but I believe you should use the short vowel sound when it is followed by 2 consonants. Good luck! :)

@herrbonk3635 2 жыл бұрын

@@berenicetrevanion3366 No, two consonants denotes a short vowel/syllable, although most clearly seen when both are the same (as in matt versus mat, fatt versus fat, dagg versus dag, and so on).

@berenicetrevanion3366 2 жыл бұрын

@@herrbonk3635 You are right, I made a mistake while writing it down. I'll correct it now to avoid confusion

@paulaswaim8434 Жыл бұрын

Pretty sweater!

@FunSwedish Жыл бұрын

Tack!

@wietzevanderwijk3169 2 жыл бұрын

I am in Småland. Here they don't pronounce the Rs at all. If I'm not sure if I have to pronounce the R then I just don't😂

@tytheby5029 Жыл бұрын

R var så svår att lära sig tack så mycket för den😭

@nyyminuolivaara 2 жыл бұрын

Wohoo, I always thought " torg " was pronounced " tuurg " in Swedish but we Finns have apparently stolen the word because it's pronounced more like the same way we write it in Finnish: " tori ". Also basket in Finnish is " kori ". 🤦

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

Nice! Good to find the similarities!

@butterbutter891 Жыл бұрын

well, Swedes and finns have had some shared history at one point

@egonjensen6506 2 жыл бұрын

kan du ämna en hel lektion åt ordet NOG och förklara meningen med hjälp av några meningar? för mig verkar ordet onödvändigt i de flesta meningarna jag sett.

@asheimmortal 6 ай бұрын

Rolling the r is the only thing I can't do.

@markoignjatovic5630 2 жыл бұрын

Umesto R slova, biće kao duga slova za A, Ä, E, I, O, Ö, U i Y; ispred slova: D, L, N i T.

@cillycubing2 Жыл бұрын

I have some trouble pronouncing hard R's in Swedish. I know what it sounds like, but I can only pronounce normal and soft R's. There may be something I have to do with my mouth for it.

@FunSwedish Жыл бұрын

It takes some time getting used to it. Depends a bit on what your mother tongue is. If you speak Spanish for example, it often comes easy. If you speak French... almost impossible 😅. The good thing is... there is the Skåne accent that doesnt have the strong rolling Rs. So it could still work for you.

@shadowpastathetf2kidwithau706 Жыл бұрын

Röv- SHADOW YOU PROMISE YOU WOULDN'T SWEAR!

@silvinagonzalezgoytia3644 Жыл бұрын

In Skåne double RR...is pronounced almost like French rr!!!

@FunSwedish Жыл бұрын

Very true! If you can't make the rolling R sound, you can always say you have a Skåne accent there 😜

@ujocdod 8 ай бұрын

Hmm, I don't think the R has that much to do with the y-sound, I tthink it mostly works like this in the end of words (in singular, indefinite form) and L does the same thing(like in fälg, helg, älg, or sälg(a plant)) Sometimes it works like this even without the R or L, for example: Mig, dig and säg. But not in the middle of all words like smörgås or organ but in the middle of other words like orgel or burgare. One exception I found is morgon where the g in many dialects is completely silent, very confusing!

@francisdec1615 4 ай бұрын

That's called assimilation. Spelling pronuciation of "morgon" sounds very posh/dated if you aren't reading from a book or singing. "Smörgås" is a compound word "smör-gås" and "organ" is a loan word, hence the different pronunciation. "Mig", "dig", "säg" might have spelling pronunciation when singing old songs or reading poems. The Swedish spelling approximately reflects how Swedish sounded in the 1300s.

@thomasjonsson2766 Жыл бұрын

The way R is pronounced in southern Sweden is more like the Germans or the French prounounce their Rs. We southerners also have a lot of diftongues like ao insted of a. Thats dialects .

@veskapavlova9368 2 жыл бұрын

“SveRige”- också en lagom R.

@brunkosaurusrex 5 ай бұрын

help! i cant roll my r's!

@Hyunginsfingernail 9 ай бұрын

I can’t roll my r’s 😢😢

@zulkiflijamil4033 11 ай бұрын

Ryssland karta

@MrVoodemar 2 жыл бұрын

watching plenty of matches of Bjorn Borg & Stefan Edberg, I've never heard their surnames pronounced correctly, either by commentators or umpires... well, I guess I've never watched them on the courts with Swedish commentary

@FunSwedish 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂 Next level... watch sports with Swedish commentary