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’…)
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…?
(Prounounce it how it's spelled and you'll understand)
(I tried that and I still don’t get it… am I stupid)
(nah, you're not stupid, it just asounds and looks 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
(assuming I'm pronouncing it correctly ofc)
I don’t think you are… lol it shouldn’t sound that fun
Well it does…
It's probably just one of those words that only sounds funny to non-native speakers.
Okay here’s what it should sound like: https://vocaroo.com/i/s07yUTehSOrx
Hah thank you! It doesn't look how it sounds to me. It kinda sounds like "Filt-mick-yeea" to me lol.
I just read it straight up the way it was written, so literally
"Skit - mick - et" (i guess?)
It made me think of one of my favorite english words of all time (picket) and then "pickwick" and both of those sound so dainty and quaint to me so this just fit in there
So idk
(Also can I say that your voice sounds very soothing?? You should read audio books or something it's so calm and serene)
