2006-08-02 01:08:30 · 6 answers · asked by mishkas_houseboat 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
These guys above are partly right, partly soooo wrong. Trust me, I'm a native Swedish speaker.
*Morjens* does NOT exist in Swedish. *Day* is spelled *dag* in both Swedish and Danish but pronounced in two different ways. Whereas Danish and Swedish have similarities, both being Nordic languages, they're very different in spelling, pronounciation and the meaning of words. *God dag* och *adjö* are opposites. Sheesh! Why answer questions when you don't have a clue? Not everything can be solved by googling & babelfishing, ya know!
Swedish and German both belong to the German language family, but that's it. They're two very different languages.
So no, Guten Tag is NOT a Swedish greeting. It's 100% German. Not many Swedes speak German nowadays, though we usually understand German reasonably well.
In Swedish, *Guten Tag* equals *god dag*, which is a very formal greeting. Younger people say *hej*, *tjena*, *hallå* or *tja*.
2006-08-03 08:58:27 · answer #1 · answered by Paul 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Swedish Greeting
2016-10-16 07:45:51 · answer #2 · answered by isiah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is for Germany and other european countires
Swedish is
Swedish God dag
Swedish Hej
Swedish Hejsan
Swedish Hallå
Swedish Morsning
Swedish Hallå där
Swedish Tja
Swedish Tjenare
Swedish Tjena
Swedish Tjabba
Swedish Morjens
2006-08-02 01:15:18 · answer #3 · answered by kida_w 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! This is German. They may understand German but if they do they understand English too!
In Danish and Swedish "day" is spelled daj and pronounced close to day.
Good-day in Swedish is goddag or adjö (pronounced like French "adieu" as the umlauted o would indicate). It is goddag in Danish. In Danish the god sounds something like guh or go but with a glottal stop at the end like Cockney English. It should be similar in Swedish.
Young Danes used to say "Hi" or "Hizer" for "Hello" and "Hi, Hi" for good-bye.
Never seen how this is written.
Swedish probably has something similar. I'm sure someone else will fill you in or you can find more on the net.
PS: while I was typing I see someone added "Hej" which is, I guess pronounced "heh" or "hi" like in Danish.
2006-08-02 01:28:55 · answer #4 · answered by MURP 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is definitively German. Although German and Swedish are closely related, I don´t think it is Swedish as well. But I do not know for sure.
2006-08-02 01:20:44 · answer #5 · answered by mai-ling 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is absolutely a german greeting from midday till 6 pm.
2006-08-02 01:40:48 · answer #6 · answered by stroby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋