Swedish Basics - En and Ett (Swedish genders)

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@jab9109 4 жыл бұрын

"People are eN-words" I will remember that for sure

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

I bet you will 😂👊

@apolloxv8820 4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@brunomoreiraguedes4547 4 жыл бұрын

Remember to never talk about people LOL

@maxbryan9397 2 жыл бұрын

@@sayitinswedish YOU CAN'T SAY THAT, THAT'S RACIST! I'M CALLING THE POLICE! *Enters in 911 on microwave.*

@clydexmation4583 2 жыл бұрын

@@maxbryan9397 😬😬😬

@bjornsan 4 жыл бұрын

I found this video because I'm, as a Swede was wondering if there is a rule for this. One thing I found is that if it's an En-ord you always use den, din and min. If it's an Ett-ord you always use det, ditt and mitt. One word that changes meaning depending on if you use en or ett is plan. Ett plan = A plane. En plan = A plan.

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

Exakt.

@croonch6538 4 жыл бұрын

I sort of had an idea that this was how it was. I've always been slightly confused though since I'm learning Swedish on Duolingo and they never explain anything. Tack så mycket :)

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

Duolingo is mostly good for learning how to type words. Try my site as well for some more meat www.sayitinswedish.com

@Xx-xk7xu 3 жыл бұрын

Reason why you can’t study from a single source.

@jey.1024 3 жыл бұрын

omg me too! I'm surprised by how much I've learned even though I'm like not even close to being fluent 😂😂 I REALLY want to learn swedish

@jey.1024 3 жыл бұрын

@@croonch6538 yeah I've only been studying like a few minutes each day and im trying to use it in conversation as much as i can but we'll get there :) best of luck to you as well 😊

@jey.1024 3 жыл бұрын

@@croonch6538 wow that's so helpful! Thank you, or should I say tack 😉

@erexford 4 жыл бұрын

This is the best explanation of "ett" and "en" I have ever seen. And, thanks for the great advice about diving in and trying to speak Swedish no matter what!!

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I wanted it to be very basic.

@daysandwords 4 жыл бұрын

When I learned Swedish, I just went with N every time, and now I do this even in languages that are not so one sided. The reason is that Swedes will almost always correct genders, because they feel comfortable doing that, so it means if you use the wrong gender, 2 seconds later, you know it was wrong. That makes it more productive than a lot of other mistakes you might make. So in French I always just go with "une / la" (feminine) because I feel like the majority are feminine (don't really know). I also don't buy that it's 70-80% in Swedish. It feels like 50%, and I could possibly believe 70%, but it's definitely not 80%. There are quite a lot of categories where ALL those words are "ett", it's just that they might not be very common words.

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords haha, and I don't agree. It feels like it's almost never "ett".

@daysandwords 4 жыл бұрын

@@sayitinswedish Not going to argue, you're the expert! I think because I heard that it was "mostly" en, then EVERY "ett" word I learned, I noted it as a special case, so it's kind of an observer effect or un-confirmatory bias. *Checks Routledge Comprehensive Swedish Grammar*: "About 75% of nouns occurring in Swedish newspapers are non-neuter (common)." My apologies for arguing! Maybe when I speak, I just use lots of unusual words haha.

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords I'm in no way an expert, I'm just an enthusiast

@DaveArchetype 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the vids man. I'm learning swedish on KZfaq and Duolingo and could not find anything about the nouns and genders so far

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, I'm glad I can help.

@AnastasiiaS-yt5kc 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, I haven't known Duolingo has Swedish

@anapacelli8069 Жыл бұрын

That really made sense to me. I’ve only been studying for a couple of months. And I was totally confused by this, thanks for clearing it up. Incidentally, I am totally blind, and although I can’t see what’s on the screen, you explained enough, so that I understand exactly. You do this by repeating things, and that’s a wonderful thing for me! Love your channel. Tack

@sayitinswedish Жыл бұрын

That's awesome! I'm happy you were able to get enough information without seeing the visuals.

@jabe5473 3 жыл бұрын

this helps a lot! also love that jazz music in the background, very relaxing!

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

I like it too :)

@japanmania30 3 жыл бұрын

TAK!! This is my first time learning Svenska, and I find your videos useful . I have been learning for about 3 weeks.

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Good luck!

@gustavsamuel 2 жыл бұрын

Are you fluent now? It’s been over a year!

@muslim_warner 10 ай бұрын

It's not 'tak' but 'tack'. 'tak' means roof.

@theladthattakescontent2650 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I’m learning Swedish and these super confused me! Helped a lot!

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

Great!

@jeanninem.4059 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joakim your videos really are helping me.Tack igen🙏

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Ingen fara! (=

@trinityw3964 2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou so much can’t find anything this simple on the whole bloody internet

@rosstapson 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks :) all the help we can get.

@thetrunkinator85 3 жыл бұрын

So long story short: Ett is used for places and En is used for people EXCEPT child which is Ett and anything that is not people or places like table, chair, lamp etc.. is most likely En Correct me if I am wrong btw

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Well, "child" is not the only exception. You're making it a bit too easy :D Lamp and chair are both "en" words :) En lampa, en stol.

@JBobjork 2 жыл бұрын

And table is ett (ett bord)

@Iemonic 2 жыл бұрын

ett paraply an umbrella

@amirmanistar4828 4 жыл бұрын

You explained It very easily and fluently.

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@erickeduardobenitez5706 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, dude . This is very useful. :)

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

Great!

@sunnymeadow1856 4 жыл бұрын

Tak for the video! Most of the languages I speak have Masculine, Feminine and Neuter genders, so I was pretty confused by common gender in Swedish! I have a better grasp on it now, thank you!

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

@saintpearl5429 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this I'm using Duolingo to learn swedish I started a few days ago and as far as I know so far Duolingo doesn't teach the grammar rules so I have to find KZfaq videos for that. That's why before watching this video I didn't even know that nouns had genders in Swedish.

@Yash-rk2vx 3 жыл бұрын

Very informative tricks

@TeethAndEyeballs 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this explanation! I’ve been confused as I assumed all objects/things were ett and people and animals were en. But I was thrown off seeing ett barn or en talrik in my studies

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Yes! There is no easy rule like that. Glad I could help!

@andres3622 2 жыл бұрын

THANKS

@amandasvensson2810 4 жыл бұрын

If possible, could you make a video about different dialects in Sweden? Or do you have any lessons on this? I'm moving to Sweden for school from the US, and I have family in Skåne who are making fun of the fact that I'll get a Gothenburg accent when I learn the language, but I have a hard time actually hearing the differences. Thank you for your making these resources!

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe sometime but the Skåne accent is quite different from the one in Gothenburg :)

@joansmith3966 4 жыл бұрын

Perfect explanation. I knew the different articles must have something to do with gender, but couldn't quite figure out the pattern on my own. This was exactly what I needed to tie it all together. Thanks!

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

Cool!

@jordan484 Жыл бұрын

tack så mycket!! :)

@gabrielsantiago4929 3 жыл бұрын

Du är fantastisk!

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Nämen, oj då. Jag rodnar.

@jazibee8269 3 жыл бұрын

Good tips

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@devonoknabo2582 4 жыл бұрын

Can you put the Swedish weekly in the channels tab

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@devonoknabo2582 4 жыл бұрын

@@sayitinswedish tack

@suzumee780 Жыл бұрын

Heyy , Im trying to learn swedish , and actually I remember that there are some tips for learners if it comes to nouns with neuter gender , so I would like to share and verify if its correct :) There is a group in where most of the verbs will take common gender (EN) but there are exeptions in case : While noun ends with UM, ERI For example: UM ending Ett rum - Rumet Ett album - Albumet Ett museum - Mueet Ett datum - Datumet En universum - Universumet ERI ending Ett Batteri - Batteriet Ett Bageri - Bageriet Ett Bildgalleri - Bildgalleriet Ett Mejeri - Mejeriet Ett Plågeri - Plågeriet Let me know what you folk think about it ! Would be cool to verify the knowledge :)

@Lightworker87 11 ай бұрын

I will love to know if this is correct. It will help a lot

@devonoknabo2582 4 жыл бұрын

I clicked the bell I forgot to sub to you lol

@aweizmohamed7959 3 жыл бұрын

tack for explain.. but little so difficult

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

If you're unfamiliar with the concept it might be daunting but it's really straight forward. You just need to accept that there are very few rules here.

@quandaledingle6948 2 жыл бұрын

tack

@davidisrael8537 4 жыл бұрын

People are en words but not a child. I got caught out as I tried to use this rule and then told I needed to use ett. I've just started to learn Swedish yesterday in the hope I can understand some of my music and for when I visit Sweden. Plus it's not the standard route one of doing French, German or Spanish etc. At least I know some basics at the moment.

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

True, the rules are just guidelines here. Good luck!

@xanaxjanna2665 4 жыл бұрын

7:33 woahhhh

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@mogret7451 10 ай бұрын

So learn the most important ett-words by heart and then go for en on the rest of them. 😎

@zalankenesei9319 2 жыл бұрын

Hej! Another thing I really dont understand is how to say this and that, Duolingo doesnt really explain it and Im really confused by this certain thing, (also Im new in learning Swedish but its very Great so far) Tack så mycket och hej då:)

@sayitinswedish 2 жыл бұрын

This = detta/denna (written Swedish + southwestern dialects) - det/den här (spoken Swedish) That = det/den där

@punmije 4 жыл бұрын

it is interesting that English is genderless. Slavic languages have genders too (and cases). Are there cases in Swedish?

@nebelung1 4 жыл бұрын

Short answer is no, except the genitive "s" ending (husets tak = the roof of the house/the house's roof). But historically Swedish used to have four genders, and there are still some fragments left of that case system in the language (in some fixed phrases etc).

@devonoknabo2582 4 жыл бұрын

No English isn't genderless Why did he say *She* told me

@jackson5802 3 жыл бұрын

The funny thing to me is that the supposedly "hardest language to learn" for English natives is Chinese, yet it has no gendered nouns. Even he, she, and it are said the same though they are written differently.

@jackson5802 3 жыл бұрын

@@devonoknabo2582 I get what you mean, but I think they were talking about gendered nouns. Like chair in English is just a chair. In French it's la chaise, feminine. In German it's un stuhl, masculine. We don't have that.

@jameshumphreys9715 2 жыл бұрын

I saw Ett on a coin in Sweden.

@bramblebop1904 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds weird, yeah? It _sure_ does!

@JazzIsFilth 3 жыл бұрын

Video starts at 1:38

@pollesolsken 8 ай бұрын

as a russian im not supposed to complain about grammar, but..... swedish is already quite complicated for me. however, learning is even more interesting now

@JBobjork 2 жыл бұрын

And if you put -en after barn it becomes barnen, meaning "the children" :)

@myatakarimaung7701 3 жыл бұрын

Ett äpple,ett ägg,ett kök...😆

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Correct!

@Overlycomplicatedswede 6 ай бұрын

Consistency is everything in this language Even tho the amount of ways to say somethings in Swedish is absurd but try to be as accurate as you can tho! wish you all luck Greetings from Sweden :)

@SuperMagnetizer 4 жыл бұрын

Jag skulle vilja säga, att ordet ord är ett ett-ord. Haha.

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

det stämmer :D

@amberalbertinia1286 4 жыл бұрын

All Germanic languages do have genders indeed, you just place the dedicated ones (en/ett) behind the word, which makes it weird comppared to other Germanic languages. But yeah some words may be female in Dutch but then male in German on Swedish. Or even French, AAAAH. Next language i'm gonna learn is without genders, because i even start messing up in my motherlanguage now xD

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

Finnish :)

@kantasingh2025 7 ай бұрын

Then why ett apple and en applesin. I m still confused🤔

@sayitinswedish 7 ай бұрын

It just came to be. Swedish is not a planned language and words sometimes shift genders over time.

@thenewempiremoodky2312 2 жыл бұрын

Hej, tack så mycket Jag kommer från Dominikanska Republiken.

@magikyuu3279 3 жыл бұрын

Wait, so does ett mean an object and en mean a person or animal? I'm still confused even after watching this.

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

That's a rule of thumb for you to have some kind of guide.

@jackson5802 3 жыл бұрын

I gathered that ett is for place nouns and some other scattered things and en is for everything else. It's as random as French tbh )))

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

@@jackson5802 it's basically random in every language with grammatical genders

@Iemonic 2 жыл бұрын

ive heard that every word that ends with "a" is common gender (en)

@sayitinswedish 2 жыл бұрын

I'd say almost yeah. But alone the letter A is "ett A". So keep that in mind.

@Nikita35485 Жыл бұрын

1:50 - me, as a native Russian speaker with three genders, complex inflection and six cases: 😌

@leanonthephone 11 ай бұрын

реально

@jackson5802 3 жыл бұрын

Why can't French make this much sense?

@basedbartholomew3968 3 жыл бұрын

This has Nothing to do with the Video but Just to Elaborate Dutch doesn’t REALLY have genders they're not really used that often in Adjectives. And not at all in Possessive Pronouns. Great video BTW!

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

But you do have "het" and "de".

@OfoeNelson 2 жыл бұрын

So if it's gender neutral it's ett and if it has a gender it's en

@sayitinswedish Жыл бұрын

Well, no. There are still "en" words that has nothing to with actual people. But people more often tend to be "en" words.

@najma492 4 жыл бұрын

Lool I’m more confused 😩😩

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

Oh no! How can I help?

@najma492 4 жыл бұрын

Say It In Swedish do we use ett for like object such as ‘apple, car, water etc’ and en for a person ?

@lisamirani4308 Жыл бұрын

I like your video, but I think it could use a couple improvements. Firstly the video could’ve easily been 5 mins or less since it doesn’t even start until 3:00. Secondly, just because a word starts with “en” doesn’t mean the definitive will end in “an”. For example I know the definitive of En flicka is flickan or en Kvinna is kvinnan, but en katt is Katten not kattan. Saying “put en towards the start and an towards the end” can be quite misleading for beginners

@sayitinswedish Жыл бұрын

Definitely never said that en and an are exactly the same thing but only that they are both indefinite articles.

@gardenwarrior4219 3 жыл бұрын

I didnt understand anything here.

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

That's not good, hopefully my lessons at www.sayitinswedish.com are clearer for you.

@syedafatimaali2128 3 жыл бұрын

I really like your content but i wish you could explain it alot better.. i was having trouble understanding coz there were so many umms and aaas in your speach.. the only reason why i don't consider watching your videos

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

I can guarantee you that there are better resources out there if you can't stand my videos and my way of teaching. No hard feelings.

@fernandobautista3200 Жыл бұрын

I like most of your videos but this was far too redundant.

@sayitinswedish Жыл бұрын

And why is that? And why does that matter? If you already know everything, why watch it? Someone else might know nothing about this. How is it redundant for them?

@sumeerahassan1200 Жыл бұрын

Wasted my time.

@sayitinswedish Жыл бұрын

Then I assume you knew all of this before. If so, why watch the video at all?

@slavisaasus 4 жыл бұрын

It is an insult to say swedish is germanic language.

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

Why would it be an insult? It's a fact? It's a North Germanic language and East Scandinavian.

@slavisaasus 4 жыл бұрын

@@sayitinswedish Because of etymology of older words, germanic linguo-cultural pillaging, idiotic theory of protoindoeuropean (protogermanic firstly, but it was too obvious) proposed and forced on by germanic scholars and me beeing too emotional 😎.

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

@@slavisaasus are you high?

@slavisaasus 4 жыл бұрын

@@sayitinswedish Yes. 1,88m high, 105kg, blond slavo-scandic. Put joke aside, during my first visit to Sweden I felt beauty of swedish and started studying it on my own. My conversational swedish still sucks. Yet, I still stand strong behind my first post.

@sayitinswedish 4 жыл бұрын

@@slavisaasus sorry, but it's too obvious that it is a Germanic language. Even if you're not a scholar it's super obvious. Even if it weren't it's kind of weird to call it insulting.