Simple Swedish Podcast - #331 - 10 svenska ord som inte finns i engelska

Episode Date: July 6, 2026

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Yes, welcome to Simple Swedish podcast, and today we're talking about 10 words that not in English-Sproskot, also 10 Swedish words that not find in English. And it is so that there's a mass of words, like, to example, to gapa, which, that or to blunding or to blunding, and it's the word, that's not

in English, but they're not so interesting, for what is interesting, it is, when we have something that, hmm, it was a little bit difficult to overshutta

this, and it's often, English word or other like you as you you have often that's often to overshut to swenkshire to

I'm enjoying this or I'm so excited so things that often be a little it makes sense and also a some that is a little bit

to overshut to but it it's also on other holdet that word that we often have that overshut to English.

So we go through 10 of the words. There are many more more, but it can't be a upfellary. comment it, so, so, so, I can make it a number two. So, yeah, we're going to begin with first word on my list here.

And that is word jobbig. So, word jobic, it is, if something is job bit, then it is, if something is jobbid, then it, it takes energy. It can be for that something is irritanty, or something is tough, and it's and it's a trotkit, or for that it is a sorgic, or for that it is sorrowly and lessant. So it can be very, it can be many different things that are jobbier. It can be, to example, if you have to be, to example, if you You have, wait a long, what job it is. And it's job it's a job it. Or if you have an upgift on job at, or in school, that's a trocic or a swerk,

then it's a jobic upgift and it's jobbid to sit here and and do this upgifted. Or, or if you have, if you are, and it's a and it's often quite job it's for that it takes time,

so it can be very jobbid. To example if you have fought sparken from your job, to get sparken and so your chef

say, no you job not here longer you have has got sparken. So, so, so, my, I've got a lot of you, oh, I've got got a lot of, oh, it's been jobbid, yeah, it must be

a very job. Also, it's a hard situation, it's job bit. So, or, or, or, a person, can also be jobbig. And it is, um, if someone is, um, if someone are very, very intensive and very, and, and, like, like, like, and, and, and, and, and, he's so, oh, he's so joby, I'm, I'm not,

I'm not, he's so joby, like, he, he's, he, he's, he iterating. So, so, onspansca, there's a good word for it, when you're talking about, pesado, so job, so jobbig. So, it's a great-so, so, so, so, so this word, so that we use it very much. Next word, that said I, precisely, and it is to orc-to-or-o-cour-a. So, So, And that It means,

So, I'm So, I I'm, I'm, I have energy To do something So it's It's quite So,

So, To example, I orca't It here For that It is for Jobbitt. There have

We word Jobbit Again. Or, No, I am too Trutt.

I or I don't, I don't go up today, I don't let me, I am too trot, no, I or can, or can say to your partner, Ork, ork, you, you're, I have, I know, I'm too, I'm not, I'm not really hard with time, but I, a, so I must do it here, orca do you do it, like, have you, have energy to do that, like, to, to, to do energy to, to do? And I come to know that, when I was in Australia and, like, and, like, talked to English, very much, so, so, so, so, so, I can't be very hard for me, like, I'm, I'm not, I can't be bothered, I can't be bothered, I couldn't be bothered, um, at doing something.

So, so, so, um, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, I don't have the energy. but often so, so, so, so it's not so, so it's also, so that's also, so that palla do something, so we have actually two words, or, to them are three, I think, for that in Norland can say, ah, I'ds, not, so, yeah, we have many words for it, so, to, yeah, we have many words for it, so, to or to orca. Then, we, then, we, then, number three, it is, to be, sams, to be samms that you can't

so, so, if I'm just like, if my brother it's, it's that we have no conflict between us, we are sams,

we are sams, so, so, so, to be osams, it means that that you have some sort of some sort of

what can it be, You, you, you, you betal didn't, you were, you were, you're not, you're not, and so you're not, and so be, and so, you're, and so, you're, and then, you're, all-vans, whole-vanner, whole-enkel. And then, maybe you're talking, man, you're sitting there, and plagues, and then, luser, conflict and then, and then, so, it is that was sams and to be osams, I'd say. Very good word, I'd say. Then, next word, a very enkeled word, it is a polleg. And a polleg is something that you legger on mackan. So say that you have a brushiva, and so you're not, you're

something on it can be it can be oskina it can be kaviar or egg or levyapastei or mucosk or what's-helfth it is a polleg and it's very very practical for you say like we duke our boardet here we have we bread we have coffee

we have pollegg so you must not specificer all different all different paulg you have like brad here coffee here, very very very why why? Why is not the word at

English? Are it for that we swan-we-svests, we elskar to do macs, maybe? So can it be, actually. Number five is a dyng and a dyng

is 24 timmars, so the day and nighten combined, all 24-timore, it is a dayn. So we can, to example, say that in the city, it traffic, the dynet-rundt. Also, 24-timmer-om-dignet, all the whole-tiden. Natt and day, dynet-runt, 24-timers-om-dignet, or 24-7.

or we can say 24-24-24-dun. 24-7. Dynet-runt. And we have also a other word that dynna. And that dynna that you are waken a whole dynne.

So if you hold it waken whole nighten end to next day and that day, you are waken 24,000, timbre, so you are wakened, a, then, you've been done

and it's not something you do often, but we have a word for it in all all the fall. I dynade maybe when I was

younger, it is not cool. Then, number six, it is to shillah from say. Here we have

an interesting word. For, But to, to shulah is, is, to give someone's for something. So I say, that it was

you who, who slung Eric, at slough no, I'm, that, you know, that, um, so,

if I say, it was he was he was he, then, then, then, I, I'm,

I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, on him. on him. But if someone

me, I'm and I say, no, it was not I, or no, it was, he was, he was he was he was, he said. Then,

then shiller I from me. I, like, say, no, I have no, I have any Skuld. I say it's I have I say I have I'm not even skil it's from

But you're just, shilly not You're not you. I saw that it was you Scyl not from you Or like he We know that We know that it was he but he He'll always afroan say Eric shillers always if from

He'll always infrown He'll always errone say He'll never I'm that he's shudic, he'll is he'll from him, so it is to shillah from me. Number

seven is a word that I often have that, uh, to, uh, uh, to, uh, uh, to oversheta, and it is to

slipa, to slipa, to do something. It means that you don't, something that's a little job it. Here we here, so that not

to be doing something that is a little job bit, okay, we have all of it in a word. Okay, so to example if someone asks you, ah, like, someone bributed

to a fest, maybe a, a, brulop. And you will not hold a tal, you know, oh, I will not hold a talk, that you know, that you know, that's that you're up, and talar in for all people, you're, you know, and, manpower something, you know, so many people don't, that, at, at tal, so many people give it, at, at to tell, then, then, I come, I come in, I comeer, I'm, okay, I'm, I'm going to, okay, so, and you're talking, and, and you, and, and, and, and, you know, okay, you're going to, okay, you

don't, also, you're not, or, or, or, what, what, to example, um, um, what, to example, if it is cold, so can you can you're that, it's great, that it is warm. For, then, then we're swettas. For that we gillard not to sweat as. It's shun't that not have to sweatas. So, ah, we slipter swettas. It's, was good.

Or, or, to example, if I'm asking you, yeah, Did you lumpen? Lumpen in Sweden is to do military-trient. So when you are 18 years, so are there many who do lumpen, so they spender six months or one year, and learn how militarily and trainers, and so do military-tentzance, it calls for Lumpen. Did you Lumpen? No, I slapped it.

I say, so it's said that it was something I didn't want to do, and not even I'd never, I'd say, yeah, I'd say, oh, I'd perhaps beret it for psychologist, that I fantaser on to murder people, yeah, then, then comes psychologist, say, no, he's not, he's not good, and you can say, oh, then, then, then, then, I'll never, so it is to slipa. Number eight, it is to take for she.

To take for she. To take for she means that you take what you want to. You're not blig, but you, it can be that, it can be that by the matter,

to be able to if you are on a fest so can, if you, if you have fests, or if you

have midda, so can you say, welcome, here are the maten, take for you. Take for you,

whole can't, take what you will have. take what you will have, and so it can be, but you must be for sure you, for you know, but you can't take for sure sure so much, also, you can't take for much, and it can also

be able to, to take place, so. So, And you can say that an artist, a person, that a lot of and that's, you're often when you're often good when you're artist, that you, you know, that you can take for se, on, man, you know,

you're not blig, you know, you know, you have, you have, you're, you have, you have, I'm, you have, this is that you can take you can take for that you can that you can

that you that you or that you of the so, you take what and are not blig

also to to take for so and you can say a tally set that that you can take

for me here in life You can take what you want to take it, for that you're just one time. So it's important to take for in life. Next, number nine. This is a word

I have had had a hard to overshutting many times, actually. For that, I'm writing a transcript to my poddavsnit, and you can, so-clart, get to the the word

if you are pod-supporter and a word that I've marked often have to overshutta is to satsa to satsa that you

invester time, energy, in something and risker it. So that it It's you're not

you're not you're not you're not on the but you're you're going going to do that it

go for that you can to work so you invester and you do you do you do

you're you're just you're a risk on some so it can be to example career

so it's it's a about to to start-its-its-its- when it comes to its career and maybe something that often

is to to get a a man, so you can say I mean I will not have a right now

for that I will satsa on my career. It means that I will focuser and invester and

invester in my career just now and, and, I'm going to try 100% on that. I want to satsa on that. You can also talk about that the state or the government in a land they will, to example, satsa pangar on something.

To example, we will satsa, pangar now, on, forskning and and you know, so you know, so that, so you're in and invester in it here, and then hopeas that it's going to be a lot of it. So, you know, you invester in it, and I'm, you're focusing on and hope that this is going to be

something good of that, of that, of that of that's-nation. So it is a a satsing, that you're a, you know, pay, time, focus, and so further. I can say that if I have a new job, all of say that I should say that I should say that I should

a good possibility, a good chance, but I know, I know, I know, I know it, I know that I will it 100%. And if you don't want 100%, if you're is osacres, then, then, then it's quite, so-called, for if you're, if you're actually making, so it's really

that you really legger focus and time on the nine. It was number nine, and we should have to with the last word that I think is a word that

only fits on the Swedish, and that VABBA, and the word comes often up in these hester, I, so that Wabba It means

that you are home and takes hand about his sick a barn so the her verbet comes from

a forecortning VAB that stands for for vord of

a barn so wab and it has been a verb to wabba

so you can example no Eric is not today. He wabber. He is not for that he wabbard. It means he is he's home and takes hand

on his sicker barn. So that you can get for that, you can get paid for it. That, it's like, it's like, same thing as that you are sick, then, then must you be home. And you can for it, so

for it, same thing if your own, and then, and then you're home, and wabbard of a sick part. So, that were the 10 words.

So, I'm not, I'm am newfiken, so, what, what do you, what think you, on these words, try you that that, that these words is in swenka, on something in our culture,

so, if you'd like to make something special. If not of these words, comment also if there are other words on on Swedish, or commenter if you have not word on your sprot, that is sworet to overshadow to English. It would be interesting, for that I can you a mass of So it would be interesting to hear if there's not word in Dittsprok

that you can overshadow to English. Maybe special if the word representer some, not concept that's not really fits.

Yeah, it was all for this the first ofsnotes. I will also say, yeah, give a little updatering for Swedish season program. It has precisely taken a slut. Just now, yeah, the first week, was the last week. And just now, I have I'm single-sumptal with the entangers. So it's interesting to hear what they I think of the program it's many of them have a very great great and really can have started

to talk Spanish with people in their owngivning, with their granders, with his partner, so that there are many who have really had have begun to use onvvvvvvvvvskar on

really, lacer books, and so I'm going to outvester the first of Swedish season and then we're going to next time in September so I know that this is something that can help

many of you, to really begin to go from that it's jobbid to talk to people to, that you actually can you can talk to people and know that this is, that It is it is it's a very much.

I can learn my flitande-sweenska. So if you will have updateringingar, on this direct in your inbox, so I'll leave I'm a link to my newhead's brev here. And the newhead's brevet is also something that is anvendable, as I give tips and scribes mail on let's-svanska and some of things.

That was all for me today. I hope it was a cool off-snit, so... So, I'll hear's soon. young. I'm