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Compound words
The goal of today’s lesson is to talk about compound words in Swedish. This lesson gives you examples of such words and shows the funny side of compound words in the Swedish language. Let’s get the ball rolling.
It’s always difficult to learn long words in any language. The Swedish language has dozens of compound words but do not judge the book by its cover, many of these could be memorised easily. They usually consist of two or more words and each of those has its own meaning. And do you know what the good thing about the long words is? You kill two birds with one stone while learning them and that should be encouraging, by the same token the long words are sometimes funny. Let me give you an illustration of that.
EN JORDGUBBE
en JORDGUBBE — a STRAWBERRY
en JORD — a GROUND
en GUBBE — an OLD MAN
Very well then, en jordgubbe is a ground old man. And there you go, you know three new words now! I told you it would be fun.
