This week, you will learn something that will make your Swedish a bit more flexible!

Modal verbs are small verbs that work together with another verb to change the meaning of the sentence. With just a few of them, you suddenly gain the ability to talk about abilities, plans, obligations, and intentions.

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Today, you will listen to a little short story in Swedish. The story is called En borttappad plånbok, which means A lost wallet.

It is a simple story about losing something important, looking for it, and then hopefully finding it again. The language is not too difficult, but it might include a few new words.

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Today we’re stepping into something that feels small in theory… but can quietly cause a lot of doubt when you speak.

Preteritum vs. Perfekt, which to pick? When? Why?

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Last week, we talked about forming longer sentences in Swedish. We dipped our toe in "inte" and its placements. This week, we are diving deeper and learning exactly where inte goes and when!

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Today, we’re going to talk about långa meningar, long sentences in Swedish. Or perhaps not LOOONG long, but longer than we have been working on so far.

We will, of course, revisit this topic many times, but this is your first introduction to our main and subordinate clauses.

Here is a shortcut to episode 10 if you want to review it: https://slowswedish.com/2025/03/10/10-the-rule-everyone-ignores/

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This week, we are mixing it up a little. You guys asked me some questions about Sweden, Swedish, and my life and I will be answering them.

First, you’ll get my answers in English here on Learn Swedish. Then you’ll get the same Q&A in easy Swedish, slow Swedish and normal, fast Swedish over at Slow Swedish in the coming week.

This is the perfect opportunity to see how much of my easy and slow Swedish you can pick up one when you already know the topic I’m talking about.

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Idag ska vi prata om tid. Today, we are going to talk about time. And not time in a deep, philosophical way. And not what time it is. More like… very practical, everyday time perspectives that still manage to confuse almost everyone.

If you do something for five minutes, that’s similar to för in Swedish. If you are doing something in 3 weeks, that’s similar to i tre veckor in Swedish. But the correlations are completely wrong!

Today, you'll learn my little hacks for telling them apart.

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Idag ska vi prata om tre små ord som skapar mycket förvirring. Three tiny words. Huge confusion.

We are talking about tror, tycker and tänker.

So, the annoying thing is this: None of these words are difficult on their own. But when it is time to choose one yourself, your brain freezes.

Let's fix that today!

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