Swedish Slang is INSANE! (I couldn't believe this)

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Hello everyone, welcome to the LangFocus channel and my name is Paul.

In the recent video on the Swedish language, we focused on the history of Swedish as well

as some of its major features. But Swedish is also an incredibly expressive language with

colorful slang expressions and idioms. Today we're going to focus on some common slang

and then we're going to look at some widely used idioms.

Brorsan, meaning bro or brother. The main word for brother is

from which this is obviously derived. What's happening?

Another common expression is meaning what's up. Well, it literally means what is being done.

What's happening, brorsan? This is like, what's happening bro?

I'm just chilling. This comes from the American English slang chill out or chill.

Are you still hungover? Is short for which means hungover.

Yeah, I saw you pass out on the sofa last night. The formal meaning of is literally deck,

both in the sense of a floor and in the sense of decking someone, in other words hitting them.

But in this slang usage, it's an intransitive verb, like you decked on the sofa, with the meaning of you passed out.

This guy should consider drinking a little bit less

The formal word for beer in Swedish is

A cognate of the English word ale. But there's also a slang word

It came from the phrase meaning Bavarian beer, which turned into

Bajersöl. And then it was further shortened to

Bäsch. This may not be classified as genuine slang since it's been in use for a long time,

but it's at least distinctly informal. There's also another informal word for beer,

which originally came from Italian.

O-bra, bad. In Swedish, bra means good, and o is a negation prefix like un in English.

So it's like saying un-good in English, which is not an official English word,