My thought as well. "Ha bråttom" is like giving a command to be stressed tf out.

Going to test in mails. Much better then the boning ASAP. 😀

Haha men verkligen! "Men ha bråttom då!" 😅

"Bråttna dig!", dagens nya uttryck.

Brotten is more like a declaration of the lack of time a person have, or may have…

In my opinion it's like what would come after "ska".. When you explain that you're going to do something, hence "ska", you haven't started doing the thing. But when you say "håller på att..." you basically are in the early stages/just getting started or almost getting started doing something. If that makes sense. Like when you say in the past tense "jag höll på att trilla", you almost fell/began to fall but then luckily didn't. So that I think is what you are saying when you answer someone's question and say "jag håller på att...". Meanwhile when you ask someone "vad håller du på med?" they often answer in the present tense and not with jag håller på att. I think sounds weird if the person asking and the one answering both use "håller på" and I think it's very rare. Either one asks "vad håller du på med?" And the other answers with a verb etc, or one asks vad gör du/vad ska du göra? And the other sometimes answer with "jag håller på att/håller på o ska (sloppy speaking)". But I did realize that we do also use it in present tense, to indicate that we're in the middle of someting. Like jag håller på att gräva/o gräver, or att planera/o planerar en resa. So I agree with that explanation but it's also not the only one 👍

Most iterations are the exact same number of words. "To shrug ones shoulders", "Att rycka på axlarna". We just don't have the one word for the verb.

Jag har då inte hört "axelryckning" nån gng men men

@@ellaxkask4508 Nu har du det.

Or we can make a new word (att) axelrycka

@Dark Waters "No, axelrycking means shrugging, not shrug" - No, "Axelryckning" is a noun. "Shrugging" is a conjunction of a verb. "You can't say "He shrugging and walked away". Same thing applies in swedish." - Are you trying to argue "shrugging" translates to "axelryckning" because a grammatically incorrect English sentence translates to a grammatically incorrect Swedish sentence or am I misunderstanding your point? The point is this: Shrug as a noun has a direct translation in Swedish, its the noun "axelryckning". Shrug used as a verb does not have a one word translation but translates to "(att) rycka på axlarna". Now, obviously, you need to use the correct conjunction of "shrug" and "rycka" depending on who is doing it. So "he shrugged"="han ryckte på axlarna". All of this is consistent with my original post.

This is so true. Languages are different and they offer different views on not only yourself but on reality. There are prime examples. If languages worked the same then we wouldn't have to learn to expand our take on the world. Only one language in one's head is a missed opportunity.

It would say that its true if you say "vad håller du PÅ MED?!!" but if u go "vad håller DU på med??" in a soft and happy voice its a totally different connotation. The former is more of an implied accusation, where as the latter is a genuine interest. Something u could ask a kid that is playing something that u dont really seen before :)

@@reallivebluescat Ofcourse it is all about HOW you say it. It could be used as It's literall meaning like "What are you doing" too ofcourse.

That depends, it can be used like that. Like the example in the video. But with a more neutral tone it can also be used as: "What are you doing (right now)." and also as: "What are you doing (as your job)." More commonly, Vad sysslar du med.

Håller med! Ageee

Another variant is "Vad fan håller du på med då?", which is explicitly confrontational, especially when stress is placed on "fan". The "då" is optional.

Bra förklarat! :)

Intressant!

Agree. The most common use of bråttom I can think of would be "det är bråttom nu" or perhaps "jag har bråttom nu" which would translate roughly to "not much time (left) now" and "I dont have much time". So if someone asks you can help them with something. "Kan du hjälpa mig med en grej?" You could then answer "nej jag har bråttom"

as an aside, in Spanish, you also "have a hurry" ( tengo prisa ) and you can also "be hurried" ( estoy apurado )

That makes sense, which also means that you could say ”brådska dig det är brått om tid” which would be the exact translation of “hurry, we’re in a hurry”. Though it would make you sound like an old movie.

@@jimmiekarlsson4458 Vilket som funkar :)

Ja men man kan ju också säga VILL DU vara med i klubben

@@tjejencarlsson4852 Sant iofs!

"Intresseklubben noterar" is something I used to use a lot as a teenage.

Are you beeing "dryg"?

@@Onionbaron Orka...

@@Merecir The killer whale...

And to keep your eyes closed.

Yes. Blunda - close you eyes. It goes both ways, it seems :)

Swedish really loves its verbs: gapa ("open one's mouth"), harkla ("clear one's throat"), hinna ("have the time to"), orka ("have the energy to"), slippa ("not have to do [something]"), knarka ("use illicit drugs"), vabba ("stay home from work to take care of a sick child and get money from the government to do so"), vobba ("working from home and taking care of a sick child at the same time").

@@TasnuArakunI have never heard of the word 'vobba' lol

Yes, but if you ask a book club if you can join them, you could say "Får jag vara med i er bokcirkel?" Which means something like "Would you be okay with me being in your book club", it kind of skips the joining part, and asks about the end result. But it sounds much more natural in Swedish than my clunky English translation.

Yeah like "Han bringade otur i huset" "He brought misfortune in the house" sounds a little like something you would read in a book but not something you would say irl. I just wanted to show the word in a sentence, thank you.

There is also the verb "medta".. But it may not be that common in spoken Swedish, so I understand if Meagan may not have encountered it yet.

"Hämta" is another word that might work.

@@SchwedensTNT medta sounds like byråkratsvenska. It’s just ta med flipped.

@@janpersson9818 It's essentially a reformulation and translates to "fetch" in English. Of course you can ask someone to fetch something for you, but it's not the same as bringing it. Compare "hämta" / "ta med".

Darth vader: "Men, Lukas, jag är ju fan din pappa"

@@klaseniusproductions7591 Läsa is the infinitive, läser is present tense. “I read” and “I’m reading” would both use läser in Swedish whereas “I like to read” would be läsa.

Dutch sounds like 4-5 different languages spoken at once and some words are the same as Swedish, but maybe used in slightly different ways. Like Lekker - Läcker. Could be a borrowed word though.

All German languages share similarities.

@@T1hitsTheHighestNote I know but I was surprised to actually kinda hear them because Dutch and Swedish don’t really sound alike

@@T1hitsTheHighestNote All Germanic languages, yes.

Infact I understand a lot of Dutch as long as it's slow, also German is the same... So we share some common roots... Even a tiny bit Icelandic is understandable...

Also, if I’m saying ‘jag håller på och…’, e.g. ’läser en bok’, ’sätter grönsakslandet’, ‘flyttar’, or something similar, I’d say that’s more of an ongoing project, not what you are doing right at that moment.

@@T1hitsTheHighestNote As a response to the question "What are you up to?" I would compare it to the english "I'm in the process of redecorating", "I'm in the process of planting my garden" and so on which carries the same signal of an ongoing project just as "Jag håller på och ...". Even though "process" is the same in Swedish it's not really idiomatic to say "Jag är i processen av att måla om mitt sovrum" since it carries a much more formal undertone. I'd accept answers such as "Jag är i en process för att erhålla mitt visum.", "Jag är i en process för att fastställa mitt eventuella faderskap.".

Can also be "about to" in past tense.

@Mea Leiswall helt säker på att de byter ut varandra. Så som jag har förstått det så är 'rush' lite stressigare än 'hurry' 🤔 Jag använder båda till vardags dock. 😊

Tycker att du har helt rätt i den ändringen. Rush tror jag korrelerar bättre med Bråttom. Ute och cyklar skulle kunna vara out on a limb, tror jag.

@@gellawella Jo, precis. Ville bara vara rolig och inkludera lite svengelska... 😇😝

@@SaraTheGemini hehe förståss. Vart skulle vi vara utan svengelska 😁

Det är samma sak. Det är bara att bråttom är ett adjektiv och inte ett verb.

And if you want to shrug someone off, there's no point in rycka på axlarna.

But there can be A shrug.

@@Nekotaku_TV but is not a shrug the same as: en ryckning /ryck?

Very true, I do translations from English to Swedish and often has to change the word order of a sentence or rephrase something to make sense in Swedish

Tänkte på det, "Hurry, we`re in a hurry!"

For "are you joining?" I will sometimes use "hakar du på?", tbh I also heard a lot of people use "joinar du?"

Vi orkar inte...

Bråttom är ett adjektiv där du använder mer, mest, minst för att böja adjektivet ☺ du kan inte sätta en/ett framför bråttom så det är inte ett substantiv

@@Ikajo Ah. Ja helt korrekt. Silly me

@@theinterTubeWarrior Jag har en fil.kand i svenska och undervisat ovanpå det 🤣 det är mitt fält

@@Ikajo Gött! Tror det var, att ha bråttom som snurrade till det för mig. Och det snygga i att a hurry (noun) skulle kunna översätta till bråttom som ett substantiv rätt av.

hey, I'm 60 and I use joina sometimes

@@Joakim7471 Yeah, Ansluta is probably the best straight translation of the word. But ansluta is rarely used in common speech. To me, ansluta sounds very technical or formal, almost military. But true, it's used sometimes.

@@zpitzer 60 is "no age on a horse" as we say in Sweden ;)

That’s why we borrowed it!

Also it’s mostly used for informal activities. You can’t really say “joina” if someone joins the royal academy of science or something 😅

Learn it ✊

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