Swedish With Eliza ☆

Lesson 3 : The Alphabet!

Hello Lovelies! Lesson three will be the glorious letters of the Swedish alphabet. If you'd like, you can watch the video above before you read my translations of each letter's pronunciation. If you do it will make a lot more sense when you come back to my lesson.

A - awe

B - bea

C - cea

D - dea

E - ea

F - eff

G - gea

H - hoh

I - ee

J - yee

K - koh

L - ell

M - em

O - oo

P - pea

Q - ku

R - arr

S - ess

T - tea

U - ouu

V - Vea

W - dubel V

X - eks

Y - eu

Z - zet-ta

Å - oha

Ä - ah like Apple

Ö - uh 

Please watch the video because you need to hear the letters to know how to really say them yourself.
I did my best to try to convey them through text.

There are of course some rules and exceptions along with them when it comes to certain letters and letter pairs. I'll tell you those now and if you don't remember them that's okay. They'll be in future lessons and exercises for sure.

G : this letter is pronounced hard or soft depending on the word. You'll have to learn which ones.

For example the word 'ge' is said with a soft g, so it sounds like the y in you.

In words like 'ganska' it is a hard g. Not like the g in gigantic, but the g in good.

Ske : now you might want to pronounce this like sk in skiing, but these letters together in a word are either said with air or like "sheh".
Depends on the dialect you choose to learn. People say both. The example word for this is 'kanske', which means maybe.

"Kansheh"

The letters 'sj' together always make an air sound such as in with the word sjuksköterska, or the number seven which is sju. Or a shh sound if that's the dialect you've chosen.

Here's a couple more to keep in mind:

Jobb - yob

Väldigt - the g is silent in all words with the T after the g.

E - this vowel is long most of the time. Like in le, ge and se.

Le - smile

Ge - give

Se - see