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7 Sometimes she studies in the library. 8 At six o’clock she gets up. 9 At eight o’clock she has (takes) a cup of coffee. Page 38 Numerals (1–12) 0 noll 5 fem 9 nio (pron. ) 1 en, ett* 6 sex 10 tio (pron. ) 2 två 7 sju 11 elva 3 tre 8 åtta 12 tolv 4 fyra * Because of the two genders. When counting: ett, två, tre … Pronunciation (CD 1; 13) Consonants g-, k-, sk- Practise saying the following words, all personal names and place names. ‘soft’ g- place names: Gerum, Gislaved, Gyttorp, Gäddede, Göteborg personal names: Gert, Gösta, Göran ‘hard’ g- place names: Gamleby, Godby, Gubbängen, Gåsholm, Grimstad personal names: Gottfrid, Gustav, Gudrun, Greta ‘soft’ k- place names: Kedjeåsen, Kivik, Kyrkhult, Källvik, Kölby personal name: Kerstin ‘hard’ k- place names: Kalmar, Kolmården, Kumla, Kållered personal names: Karin, Konrad, Kurt, Kåre, Kristina ‘soft’ sk- place names: Skeppsvik, Skillingaryd, Skyttorp, Skänninge, Skövde ‘hard’ sk- place names: Skara, Skogby, Skurup, Skånela Page 39 Dialogue 2 (CD 1; 14) Rebecca meets a new friend MARIA: Hej!
Is the formal equivalent. On parting, use hej då, hej, hej, or hej så länge ‘Bye for now’, ‘Be seeing you’. Adjö (pron. ajö) ‘Goodbye’ is the formal equivalent. V-words (interrogatives) Some v-words, or interrogative pronouns, are found in the dialogue: varifrån? where … from? var … ifrån? where … from? Others are: vad? (pron. va) what? var? where? vem? who? Notice also the following interrogatives, without an initial v-: hur? how? när? when? e. verb – subject) word order. Notice the difference, however.
But note the following points: • These rules do not apply to words ending in -m, -n where the m and n are often long already (= mm, nn), cf. den, hem and see p. 107. • The common words arm, charm, arbete have short a. Compare the pronunciation of English ‘arm’. • Unstressed vowels are always short: the a in skriva, the e [] in röker. In this book you will sometimes see the symbol . This represents the unstressed sound of ‘a’ in English ‘about’, ‘er’ in English ‘father’, etc. Consonant sounds (CD 1; 4) Many of the consonant letters are pronounced approximately as in English.