How do you pronounce “Sverige” (Sweden) in the Swedish language?
April 18, 2010 by
Filed under swedish language
Not sure if the “i” is long or short, the “g” is soft or hard, nor if the “e” at the end is pronounced. Thank you!
April 18, 2010 by
Filed under swedish language
Not sure if the “i” is long or short, the “g” is soft or hard, nor if the “e” at the end is pronounced. Thank you!
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Probably Sveer-eeg, but that might just be my Dad’s local dialect from Northern Sweden. He left there in the 1920’s.
If you want to pursue this, google for “Social Networks for Language Learners,” and join up to one of these free sites to hook up with some Svenske learning another language. Or more than one…
Some are:
http://www.voxswap.com/search
Live Mocha is apparently the biggest such site at this time.
http://www.livemocha.com/
http://www.myhappyplanet.com/
http://www.italki.com/
http://www.languageexchange.org/
The Voxswap one even lists Klingon– which is actually based mostly on a native language from California, and once was the fastest growing language in the world- there were Klingon lexicons for sale at airports, I understand.
Fin Dag Y Dag: ( It’s a fine day today.)
And an early God Jul (Merry Christmas.)
Sferige is the right pronunciation.
It’s pronounced like /sveriye/ (sveh-ree-ye). Swedish G is like Y.
Sveer-ee-ya
The best way is to hear it spoken.
Click the link below for an audio file with the pronunciation in Swedish.
(note: scroll down, the first pronunciation is Danish, but the second and third are Swedish)
I hope this helps!
If you speak it fast I think it would sound something like “sveryeah”, and the”y” is pronounced like the “y” in “yes”, but if I would say it slowly, it would sound something like “svereeyeah”. the “i” in the word is pronounced like the “e” in “bee”, and is not stressed, you say it very fast like you almost not pronounce it but still you do, sorry i can’t explain it. the stress should always be on the last syllable of the word.
the swedish g is not always pronounce with a y-sound, but if it’s before a soft vowel it is. like in the words “igen”(=again), pronounced “eeyan”, or in “genom”(=through), pronounced “yeenom”.
Hope this helped you!
Lagom has a good explanation and pick the male voice in JessicaK’s link (since the female voice is a foreigner, and you can tell).