forum Um... Swedish.

Started June 01, 2019 by Deleted user

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I feel like not many people will have use of this… but, I am completely fluent in Swedish, so in case anyone wants to learn it or just practice it… Well, here I am.

Say a foreigner or just anyone bumps into a Swede on the streets- what insults is a rude Swede likely to mumble under their breath and what are their respective translations?

how do you say get the hell away from me? sorry it could have been worse.😊

lol wE jUsT wAnNa KnOW iNsuLts

yes, yes we do

Say a foreigner or just anyone bumps into a Swede on the streets- what insults is a rude Swede likely to mumble under their breath and what are their respective translations?

Most Swedes are actually pretty polite, so I think that they would just say like ”Ursäkta” (meaning sorry) or maybe ”Oj då” (meaning like… oops?). But a rude Swede… if the person bumping in to them was a kid they might call them ”Ungjävel” (’asshole that is a kid’, or more exactly translated to ’kid-devil’). They might also say ”Skitstövel” (shit-boot) or even a simple ”Jävel” (meaning ’devil’ originally but it’s pretty much used like your word ’asshole’…)

cool

how do you say get the hell away from me? sorry it could have been worse.😊

Um… we don’t really use that exact sentence. If a Swede wanted someone to get away from them they would probably say ”Försvinn!” (meaning ’disappear’) or ”dra härifrån” (meaning ’Leave this place’). If they wanted to point out that the person should get away from them they might say ”Försvinn ur min åsyn” (disappear out of my sight). If you really want to add ’hell’ to the sentence you could add ”för i helvete!” to any of the previous sentences (meaning ’for hell’s sake’).

sorry i had to ask

Haha it’s okay

cool thanks

I feel like english-speakers are a bit more creative with their insults? In Sweden, the easiest way to insult someone is probably to say ”Skit”. It literally translates to ’shit’. ”Skit” kan also be added to descriptional words to make them more extreme and to point ot that whatever you describe really is like you describe it, like ”skitmycket” (shit-much), ”skitful” (shit-ugly), ”skitfin” (shit-pretty) or ”skitstor” (shit-big). Another common insult is ”arsel” or ”arsle”, both two different spellings of the word ’ass’.

see I just laughed for a good three minutes while muttering the word "skitmycket" to myself and this is why introducing me to foreign languages is dangerous

Lol why is skitmycket so fun…?

I might post a link to a record where I pronounce words later if I’m bored haha

Lol thank you!

@ninja_violinist
Same tho lol
sKiTmYcKeT… ha.

I don’t get it… why is skitmycket so funny…?

Oh, okay… I feel like I should make a record so ya’ll get to know what it really sounds like lol

It's just a fun word to say ha

I don’t think you are… lol it shouldn’t sound that fun