SWEARING IN SWEDISH

[@sayitinswedish]

Let me know if you like this new look of the video! Also, should a make a second part of this? There are lots of euphemisms and other things we say out there.

[@eck2x]

Say It In Swedish 10/10 will watch again :)

[@SuperMisterClean]

Looks great!

[@AuriForda]

Yes and yes

[@wombatsauce]

I think it would be fun, yes.

[@JD-ts4bx]

Ja, snälla!

[@dianaraabarca5576]

"what could you expect from the devil himself" that one made me chuckle 😅

[@noogiesm]

i love how "jävla" has the same usage in american english as "hella" which is short for hell of a lot, lol

[@sayitinswedish]

True!

[@YourMom-rg5jk]

How is it short when hella is longer than hell?

[@williamdodge8425]

@@YourMom-rg5jk hello is short for "hell of a" so 'of' is dropped. Example: You're in for hella lesson son.

[@shnur1987]

Det här är jävla bra skit, tack!

[@malinelg4334]

A fan

[@woewoe2749]

Planning to be an environmental engineer and work internationally between US & Sweden. This is what I need to know for when flights are delayed :)

[@woewoe2749]

Career path changed and now I'm a neuropsychology major lmao

[@rifkyprakoso9288]

@@woewoe2749 lmao what happened

[@woewoe2749]

@@rifkyprakoso9288 I realized that calculus gets MUCH harder and less fun at higher levels lmao. Plus brain stuff has always been really interesting to me.

[@vividlight5789]

Random dude from Texas here I swear in swedish quite often

[@_MaryRose_]

History context behind using 17 and 18 as curse words; it hails from our old nose believes. With the entire pantheon of old gods being together, then when Loke (or Loki to you Americans) shows up as the last man, being the 18'th at the party, all hell breaks loose. So saying Attans would have been back in the day extremely powerful, while sjutton was the lesser one. *the more you know*

[@felicytatomaszewska]

I was an exchange student in Sweden Stockholm for a semester and among other courses, I needed to attend Swedish language course. They taught us academic Swedish but not the practical one which the people in the street were using. Though I hold a basic talk but swearing was not included in the syllabus but Swedes swear all the time.

[@Wigant-wc7to]

Va fan säger du? 😅

[@AuriForda]

Hahaha, good to know.. i'm going to Sweden fort the first time in two weeks and this video was really helpful for me, because.. in our country (czech republic) the "kuk" word means "peekaboo" and we use it quite frequently, often with children..so... :-D

[@sayitinswedish]

HAHA!

[@wombatsauce]

This is pretty funny - thanks for doing it. I always thought "också" with these was especially funny, in my English mind it sounds like "shit also!!" Which is hilarious. BTW, since it's so hot here right now, I went to get a fan but forgot the word - then I remembered that it would be potentially awkward to ask people where a fan was (Var ligge din fan? Har du fan? Jag kan få en fan?). Incidentally Elgiganten had no fans.. They couldn't give a fan.. No fans to give.. Anyway. Thanks for the vid. Still have lots to learn.

[@scotverdin9401]

I'm taking these to my Swedish class at the Nordic Museum in Seattle!!

[@sayitinswedish]

Cool!

[@spidrawebster]

What's the etymology of "attans" and "sjutton" being used as swearwords? If it were 10 or below, I'd guess it were related to a commandment. I knew most of these already, but it was very good to hear you weigh in on the relative strength of the swears. I'd love to see Part II.

[@erexford]

Great video! I love the new look!

[@AwareWokege]

the fact that i know these because of felix lol

[@sayitinswedish]

Attans bananer!

[@Serpentshand.forever]

Nej

[@Serpentshand.forever]

He is lying to you he's a log nore

[@JD-ts4bx]

Wow, numbers are swearing! EIGHTEEN! 😇 Someday I will have a full understanding of the Swedish mind, I swear! I do like the new style, I miss the guitars because I am a guitar player but the new look is quite clean and useful. I hope it is not as warm for you outside now! Tack tack tack, du är bäst!

[@ennis773]

I like how creative you can be with swear words in swedish like: "Fittans jävla kukballe" or "Helvetes jävla pisskuk"

[@sayitinswedish]

Yes, lots of funny compounds.

[@claudiodidomenico]

Snälla sluta inte göra videor. De är så bra!

[@SilverStardust9]

I’ve heard the term “Fy fan för dig” used. What context would that be used in, rather than just “Fy fan”?

[@Wigant-wc7to]

It means that you really dislike a certain person.

[@nio2288]

Tack så mycket!

[@AlbinGamer69]

om jag slår i ån brukar jag säga aj som fan

[@danajohnson6273]

Those words are the same or very similar in Norwegian (I worked there a couple summers). Fy fan is my favorite thing to say instead of the English equivalent. Love this channel!

[@brunaguerra3021]

oh hell yeah lmfao tack så mycket king

[@robertoantoniello3268]

Hi, i know also that jävla can be translated with the strongest form "f******g", as pewdiepie mentioned in his video. My question is: is there a way to understand when this swear word is used in order to express, as an intensifier, "damn" or "f***", or even the devil himself? For istance, the phrase "du är jävla, en förbannad jävel" from the Persona's screenplay of Bergman, is literally referring to the "devilish", as "You are a devil, an absolute (or damned) devil/demon". Greetings from Italy and have a nice day.

[@sayitinswedish]

"Jävla" is the intensifier and cannot be used as an object, where as "djävul" (or coll. "jävel") is an actual devil. So "din jävla djävul" would be "you damn/fucking devil".

[@fleurbird]

I learned sjutton också on duolingo. So funny because it's literally 17 also

[@sayitinswedish]

It's really mild but useful!

[@daphnie816]

I saw a (comedy) video on facebook that was talking about swedish swearing, and I was wondering if "nu har du verkligen skitit i det blå skåpet" is actually a swear phrase?

[@sayitinswedish]

Not really. It just means "now you've messed up".

[@TheSentientCloud]

Of *course* a Swede is using the Verdana Bold font... aka the IKEA font 😂

[@mikkoh.2051]

We have swedish swear loan word in finnish: "Helvetin kuustoista" Helvete sexton urbaanisanakirja.com/word/helvetin-kuustoista/

[@Chris-wj4ze]

I always thought that sjutton was supposed to be a tamer version of satan. Sort of like replacing damn with darn.

[@sayitinswedish]

It kind of is, yeah.

[@dxcopojke9718]

I met a family from malmö here in Mexico city We get along so well and yeah I remember fy fan hahaha fun as fuck with them But they sometimes said :Du(g) dig , I still don't know what it means Thanks for your videos I really want to improve my Swedish , where I live there're a lot of monolingual folk with just spanish ( castellano )or with different kind of dialects that sadly is fading

[@paulrivas_88]

Också is the real bad guy here xD

[@melindahopson1477]

Explains it I cuss a lot I don't really see anything wrong with it I see it as me being human I mean come on if I drop something on my foot I'm naturally going to cuss but everybody puts me down but I can't help but think to them you're not normal if you don't do this thing but learning my father's family tree comes from Sweden it now makes perfectly good sense

[@nekotyto718]

google translate always uses knulla when translating 'fuck', is this a special kind of 'fuck'?

[@sayitinswedish]

That's the literal translation.

[@JoannaNowickaKohrinn]

I have problem with 'jävla' and 'fan' because I've always thought that it was like an f-word and yet many people use it like 'damn'. I'm confused - how bad those words are? 😅

[@sayitinswedish]

Like I said in the video, "fan" is to the swear words, like "hej" is to the greetings. It's used all. the. time. It's used in the same way as the f-word but it's not as bad. Use it! No one will bat an eye.

[@ronnipaints6128]

It's this language acceptable to use around children and in churches. I try not to speak foul language because it destroys my witness as a Christian. Is this the same in Sweden.

[@sayitinswedish]

It's up to you to decide if this is "foul language" or not. But obviously, swearing is swearing, no matter what language you're using.

[@fulesmackofule]

Help! Is there something that sounds like: "fü fa jagadua"? Heard it from a friend as kid. Ok, I think, after watching the video, it will be "fy fan javlar" :)

[@sayitinswedish]

Probably!

[@carloemanueledoria7648]

Pewdiepie

[@sayitinswedish]

What about him?

[@cactus2]

Lol

[@BlatantDisregardForYourFeels]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dontbeaclown96]

jag är en kuksugare 💕

[@sayitinswedish]

där ser man

[@Anthoynyth]

Fårkskalle

[@ilovet-series3264]

what about forbovelen

[@sayitinswedish]

För bövelen is not very strong and is a bit dated.

[@ilovet-series3264]

@@sayitinswedish oh i just know it cuz of pewdiepie lol

[@hungrydragonvsfrightendhob7799]

@@sayitinswedish Would that be like the equivalent of Heck or Dang?

[@360-t5s]

Mannen du glömde ett viktigt ord som jag brukar använda mest ‘mammaknullare’😂

[@zoey9064]

He looks so uncomfortable teaching these slur words.

[@sayitinswedish]

Maybe it's just my face.

[@jaqenhgar6330]

you skipped "Knulla"

[@sayitinswedish]

Did I? How is that a swear word?

[@jaqenhgar6330]

Say It In Swedish I might have been misinformed, excuse me :)

[@sayitinswedish]

We don't say that when we curse. It would be direct translation of fuck however.

[@jaqenhgar6330]

Say It In Swedish So F U C C is not a bad/naughty word?

[@sayitinswedish]

Well we just don't use the Swedish equivalent as a curse word.

[@unshakenhorse632]

Det ar inte vackert

[@TheRatQween]

Yooooo :) first view finally

[@sayitinswedish]

Haha, congratulations?

[@erexford]

Jealous!

[@TheRatQween]

Say It In Swedish it is thank you! I watch your content religiously because I want to move to Sweden in the future 😂 I clicked so fasttttttt! Keep up the amazing work!