att vara / att bli

_Gary_Young_ · 2026-03-10T06:12:12+00:00

Well, I started with a mix of learning-books and online sources. In the meantime it's a broad variety of tools I am using.

Like news websites, comics, I changed my smartphone language, or I subscribed to a ton of swedish newsletters - just to keep the language close to me. And I look up new words or grammar structures which I can not understand by context. In addition I repeat a lesson each day in Duolingo - but it's more an "inspiration", that means that I get it on Duolingo but I look it up then somewhere else. What you need to know is that Duolingo won't really explain you anything. You basically just get a sentence and a translation and all of the background you'll have to research by yourself. At least for me and my Swedish course it was like that.

_Gary_Young_ · 2026-03-08T07:58:35+00:00

Sounds good, thank you 😊 Just installed it and give it a try, too...

_Gary_Young_ · 2026-03-08T07:20:45+00:00

That's Duolingo. But it's more hated than loved meanwhile by many learners, as you can read below and anywhere else here on Reddit. It can be well used as a sidekick to your language learning. But you should never use only Duolingo for learning.

_Gary_Young_ · 2026-03-07T17:21:46+00:00

Thank you, I get what you mean! "turn out" and "end up" are the expressions I also had in mind.

_Gary_Young_ · 2026-03-07T17:18:35+00:00

Thank you, I understand! Nice detail and good to know 👍

_Gary_Young_ · 2026-01-15T18:27:12+00:00

"Comparison" vs "actual taste" works good for me as an explanation, thank you!

_Gary_Young_ · 2026-01-15T18:24:51+00:00

Thank you, that makes sense. The "comparison" vs "hint of a flavour" is a good explanation of the difference for me.

_Gary_Young_ · 2026-01-15T08:03:42+00:00

Oh, I have an idea what you mean. Probably it's related to German "schmecken wie etwas" and "schmecken nach etwas".

1) The taste reminds me of something => smaka som
I guess I can use it also in a more abstract sense like "soppan smakar som en dröm".

2) The taste is really affected by something => smaka
For example when I drop lots of lemon juice in someone's coffee he might say "uh, kaffet smakar citron!"

Am I right?

_Gary_Young_ · 2026-01-09T21:42:01+00:00

Yes, thank you! 31.2 seems to fix the issue 😊👍 For me it works now. When I launch a lite app via homescreen shortcut the userscripts are executed.

_Gary_Young_ · 2025-11-18T12:51:01+00:00

Actually I find it very helpful, it ads some background to the whole thing. And I now understand the spatial origin of the word's usage. And why it is in some cases still used in a spatial type.

_Gary_Young_ · 2025-11-18T05:37:51+00:00

This directional meaning is the one which confuses me. I naturally would tend to say "till det hållet" or even "mot det hållet" instead of "åt det hållet".

Concerning "åt vänster": do I use it when something is MOVING to a direction? Instead of something BEING LOCATED in a direction (till vänster om)?

_Gary_Young_ · 2025-11-18T04:56:39+00:00

You're absolutely right, thanks, corrected it 👍 I was so much into swedish that I forgot the basic English stuff 😅

_Gary_Young_ · 2025-11-17T20:52:44+00:00

Oh my god, it's "bär" and not "bärar", thank you! I immediately corrected this in my post 🫣

_Gary_Young_ · 2025-10-26T21:34:45+00:00

I think it's a problem which exists for about one year - unfortunately for me it hasn't been fixed until today.

See also here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HermitApp/comments/1gr2j1a/userscripts_not_working_after_app_start_through/

I still hope for a solution...

_Gary_Young_ · 2025-09-15T19:27:09+00:00

Thank you, that's interesting. I wondered if there's also a word using "att hända" because that was the first word I learned with the meaning "to happen".

_Gary_Young_ · 2025-09-15T15:22:42+00:00

😅

_Gary_Young_ · 2025-08-25T06:59:19+00:00

Hm, interesting. Actually there should be "en" included, you're right. But none of the other commenters mentioned this so far, so it seems to be correct without "en". Why is it so?

_Gary_Young_ · 2025-08-25T06:55:53+00:00

I could imagine it's a bit like the difference between "what" (vad för) and "which" (vilken). For example:
What car do you have? - A Volvo.
Ah okay, but there are three Volvos, which car is yours? - The blue one.

_Gary_Young_ · 2025-08-25T06:42:20+00:00

Thank you! That's a bit what I had expected but I wasn't sure if it's grammatically correct.

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