Å va gott

kvitta

Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

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Verb

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kvitta

  1. inflection of kvitte:
    1. simple past
    2. pastparticiple

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Swedishqvitta, from Old Frenchquiter, from Latinquiētāre.

Germanic cognates include Dutchkwijten(“to quit”), Low German quitten(“to quit”), German quitten, quittieren, Danish kvitte, Icelandic kvitta.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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kvitta (presentkvittar, preteritekvittade, supinekvittat, imperativekvitta)

  1. (impersonal) to not matter
    Det kvittar
    It doesn't matter
    Det kvittar vad jag gör. Juryn sågar mig ändå.
    It doesn't matter what I do. The jury pans me anyway.
    Det kan kvitta
    It's not important / It doesn't really matter / It's no matter ("It may (be allowed to, be let to) not matter")
    • , Claes Eriksson (lyrics and music), “Gôtt å leva [Gött att leva] [Good to live/be alive]”, in Det ska va gôtt å leva [Det ska vara gött att leva – ô signifies a dialectal vowel sound] [It should be good to live/be alive]&#;[1], performed by Anders Eriksson, Jan Rippe:
      Livet är gö
    • å va gott

      • Swedish vowels – Å, Ä, Ö

      Would you like to learn or improve how to actually say those last three confusing letters in the Swedish alphabet? We&#;re talking about the Swedish vowels Å Ä Ö.

      Swedish has 9 vowels in the alphabet! Apart from the &#;extra&#; letters Å Ä Ö, we also consider Y as a vowel. And all our 9 vowels have two sounds each; a long and a short sound. It&#;s really important to get these sounds right. If you don&#;t, you can easily be misunderstood.

      What you need is a system for how the Swedish sounds are actually created. Physically. In your vocal tract.

      When you&#;ve learnt how to work with your lips, tongue and larynx, you will begin to FEEL (not just hear) how Swedish actually sounds.

      In our course Tone Your Swedish, we teach all the Swedish phonemes as well as intonation and melody. Click here to read more about Tone Your Swedish.

      A few words about Å, Ä and Ö

      ÅÄÖ come at the end of the alphabet, after Z.

      Sometimes it can be easy to think of them as variations on A and O. But they are not. Just in the same way that an R is not a variant of P. We would never say that R is a P with an extra dash. They are different sounds in the mouth, and have diff

      Galenskaparna och After Shave

      Swedish comedy group

      Galenskaparna samt After Shave is the collaborative name of two Swedish comedy groups, Galenskaparna and After Shave, from Gothenburg.[1][2] In the two groups joined in beställning to collaborate on the revue show Skruven existerar lös, and the collaboration has continued.[3] Since the early s, Galenskaparna samt After Shave have produced nearly 28 revues, restaurant shows, and tours, as well as 8 movies, 5 television series and 30 studio albums.

      Galenskaparna och After Shave has made some of the biggest movie, TV, song and revue successes in Swedish history, including TV series Macken (The Petrol Station), the movie Hajen som visste för mycket (The Shark that Knew Too Much) and the revue Stinsen brinner (The Station mästare is on Fire).

      Members

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      Galenskaparna is a comedy troupe which was formed in Members of the group are Anders Eriksson, his older brother Claes Eriksson and Kerstin Granlund. Granlund and Claes Eriksson had previously appeared together in a popular student comedy group called Utan Lots, –77, at university.

      After Shave formed in as a barbershop quartet at Chalmer