Posts tagged alltså
Posts tagged alltså
There are a lot of big grammary words which despite my interest in language and grammary things I don’t quite understand
but it is vaguely helpful, at least more than insisting that “alltså” means thus/therefore, which is what the rest of the Internet told me.
Also…hello? I don’t know what “while” you’re talking about because I don’t think I’ve gone anywhere (though I guess I’ve been a little quieter this past two weeks on dumblr because I’m in California, and working tumblr on my iPad is a little bit more of a hassle when it comes to writing posts and I can’t really upload pictures and I’ve been cutting back on reblogs which is the only easy thing to do so yeah okay I guess I have been a little absent hello!).
mmm so I think the reason why someone has written 29 pages about “alltså” is because this word is confusing as hell.
I think this one is going to take me a while to reconcile because
it looks/sounds like “also” so that’s how I want to read it (and it occupies places in sentences where “also” could go even if it…doesn’t….make sense in context really)
but it doesn’t mean “also” at all
and the information that it conveys depending on where it is in the sentence is not where I would place that information when speaking english, so finding that information in that place in a sentence is really confusing to me (yes I know that this is a Thing that foreign languages do I can whine if I want to)
along with the fact that it just has such a vague and varied amount of meanings that it’s going to take a lot of practice to figure out what information is actually supposed to be conveyed in each individual sentence, since there isn’t really a direct english equivalent (the paper says that the “direct equivalent” often given in dictionaries etc. is only used like 20% of the time rofl).
