Green fields, flowers and lakes go past the window. Tuss hasn’t sat still since the train left.
Listen to each word and look at how it’s used. Practice comes right after.
Olle’s tip: The biggest party of the Swedish summer, on a Friday in late June.
Glad midsommar! Happy midsummer!
Vad gör ni på midsommar? What are you doing for midsummer?
Vi är hos Astrid på midsommar. We’re at Astrid’s for midsummer.
Olle’s tip: The double mm keeps the o short, like “summer”: sommar.
Nu är det sommar! Now it’s summer!
Vad gör du i sommar? What are you doing this summer?
i sommar = this summer
På sommaren är det ljust ute. In summer it’s light outside.
ljust = light
Olle’s tip: A small wooden house, often red. A summer cottage is a sommarstuga.
En röd stuga! A red cottage!
Vi har en stuga vid sjön. We have a cottage by the lake.
Stugan är liten men fin. The cottage is small but nice.
fin = nice
Olle’s tip: You met sjö in Kapitel 1 for its sj-sound. Sweden has about 100 000 of them.
En sjö och en stuga. A lake and a cottage.
Vi badar i sjön. We’re swimming in the lake.
Stockholm ligger mellan en sjö och havet. Stockholm lies between a lake and the sea.
havet = the sea
Olle’s tip: bada is a swim for fun in a lake or the sea, or a bath. Swimming lengths is simma.
Tuss badar i sjön. Tuss is swimming in the lake.
Ska vi bada? Shall we go for a swim?
ska vi = shall we
Barnen badar i sjön. The children are swimming in the lake.