Pragmatic Particles

Pragmatiska Partiklar

About this concept

Discourse particles conveying speaker attitude: ju (shared knowledge), väl (assumption), visst (certainly/apparently), nog (probably), minsann (indeed).

In Settemila Lingue, this concept generates a practice deck of ~35 cards at level C2.

Examples

Du vet ju vad jag menar.You know what I mean. (shared knowledge)

Det är väl inte ditt fel.It's not your fault, is it?

Kom visst in!Do come in! (emphatic)

Han är nog hemma.He's probably home.

Prerequisite

Colloquial SwedishC2

More C2 concepts

Colloquial SwedishTalspråk Idiomatic ExpressionsIdiomatiska Uttryck Rhetorical StructuresRetoriska Strukturer Legal and Bureaucratic LanguageJuridiskt och Administrativt Språk Literary and Archaic FormsLitterära och Arkaiska Former

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