Swedish Travel Phrases

Swedish

Swedish is used in Sweden, parts of neighboring Finland, and Åland.

Items shown below:

Standard Swedish, Pitemål dialect, and the Swedish language game Rövarspråk

See also Old Swedish.

Standard Swedish

1) Var är mitt rum?

2) Var är stranden?

3) Var är baren?

4) Rör mig inte där!

shown using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

If you are able to provide a Swedish translation of the home page, please look at the instructions and text to be translated.

Language information at Wikipedia and Ethnologue

Writing system information at Omniglot

Alternate names for Swedish include Svenska and Ruotsi

Pitemål (also known as Peitmål)

The Pitemål dialect of Swedish is used in and around the city of Piteå, Sweden.

1) Vårs jär stögon mijn?

2) Vårs jär stranda?

3) Vårs jär barn?

4) Rör mä et dena!

Language information at Wikipedia (in Swedish)

Rövarspråk

Rövarspråk is a Swedish language game popularized by Astrid Lindgren's books featuring Kalle Blomkvist.
In the books, children use it as a code while playing and while solving actual crimes.

1) Vovaror äror momitottot rorumom?

2) Vovaror äror sostotroranondodenon?

3) Vovaror äror bobarorenon?

4) Roröror momigog inontote dodäror!

More information at Wikipedia

More games are on my language game page

[ translations grouped by writing system ]

The four essential
travel phrases in English:

1) Where is my room?
2) Where is the beach?
3) Where is the bar?
4) Don't touch me there!

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