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Topic: swedish question
Posted By: gtheperson
Subject: swedish question
Date Posted: 30 November 2007 at 4:34am
Greetings. In unit 2 I am a bit confused from sentence 12 to 15. As far as I can see it doesnät say what 'med' means, but from sentence 12 it looks like it means 'by', but when I looked on a swedish dictionary online it gave me many meanings inclkuding 'about' and 'too'.
 
Also the phrase 'det håller jag med om', it does not say what 'att hålla' means on its own, but it seems to say ' it holds I with in'
 
Could someone please explain better so I can use the words in the right way, thanks.



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Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 30 November 2007 at 7:17am
This doesn't answer your question, but be sure to read this post:

http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=300 - http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=300




Posted By: PolyglotNZ
Date Posted: 01 December 2007 at 1:23am
Hello gtheperson!

First of all, you have to remember that prepositions are idiosyncratic. For example, Language A will use X preposition and Language B will use Y preposition to express the same meaning.

MED means a few things in English.

MED = with
med eller utan (with or without)
skriva med en penna (to write with a pen)

MED = to
gift med (married to)
lika med (equal to)

MED = by
med tåg (by train)
skicka med post (send by post)

It can also mean 'about' as in 'det bästa med huset' (the best about the house) and 'too' as in 'det tror jad med' (I think so too).

'att hålla' means 'to hold, to keep', but the expression 'att hålla med om' means 'to agree' as in 'jag hållar med deg om det' (I agree with you about this) or 'det hållar jag med om' (I agree).

English phrasal verbs work the same way. If you know the meaning of TAKE and the meaning of OFF as separate words, you cannot guess the meaning of TAKE OFF as in 'the plane is taking off'. These are expressions that you have to learn as a whole because their meaning (in most cases) is not made of their components.

Hope this helps and I hope it makes sense too!

Cheers!



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"One who knows languages feels home everywhere."


Posted By: gtheperson
Date Posted: 03 December 2007 at 1:03am
cheers, I understand now 



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