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Word: You’re welcome

You’re welcome = Varsågod

You’re welcome. A very handy and useful couple of words.

Varsågod! That’s the word of today.

Word: How are you?

How are you? = Hur mår du?

Or how about How you doing? That’s how Joey in Friends would say!

This sentence can never be used to much. Well, ALMOST never.

Word: Get well soon

Get well soon = Krya på dig

This short sentence is very nice to hear when you’re suffering from a disease, weather it’s a cold or a horrible stomach disease that’s been bothering you for almost a week.

It’s something that us Swedes say a lot if someone’s ill. Every time we talk to someone who’s  sick we want to end the conversation with ”Krya på dig!”. And it’s nice and polite, isn’t it`?

Word: Tired

Tired = trött

”o” with two dots, isn’t it a nice letter?

Something we are very often here in Sweden, since almost half the year is winter and dark!

Word: Good Night

Good night = God natt

Not god as in God, but god as in good, but with a long ”o”. I say god natt alot, I even have to scream it every night before I go to bed, other wise I feel bad that I didn’t say good night to my family! Haha

Word: Thank You

Thank you = Tack

A friend of mine from Turkey spent some time studying in Sweden. He told me that one thing he noticed was that Swedes say “Tack” ALL the time. In the grocery store, “Tack, tack”, in the clothes shop, “Tack, tack”. Tack, tack, tack, tack. Thank you very much. Thanks. Thank you, thank you. He thought this word was said a bit TOO often.

Thinking about it, I agree. We do say thank you a lot.

We say thank you when we give the person behind the counter the money, they say thank you when they get them. We say thank you when they give us the change, they say thank you when we receive it. Sometimes, but just sometimes, we say “here you are” instead. But that’s more rarely.

Quite extreme, isn’t it?