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You know im using duoligo and i saw they use mostly "de" whereas "dem" is used as object ... is that right ?!

De and dem can both be used for people and objects. Some examples of their uses and a bit of explanation can be found [here].

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but people may choose to use den, dem or hen as pronouns right?

People can choose to use “den” as a personal pronoun for themself in Swedish just like people can choose to use “it” as a personal pronoun for themself in English. It’s very rare but it does happen. “Den” is mostly just used for objects, just like “it” is moslty used for objects.

hej! det är bra med mig tack, hur är det med dig? i’m not very good at explaining things! i think this is one of those things that you’ll just have to read a lot of examples of to get a good grip on

utan - without, except, but

men - but

det var inte karin som knackade utan det var martin - it was not karin who knocked but it was martin

vera gillar cezanne men inte gaugin - vera likes cezanne but not gaugin

hello! first of all i recommend Astrid Lindgren, she’s the epitome of children’s literature! and if you want to understand swedish culture (which i guess is part of the point in learning a language?) i think reading her works would be a major key.here are some classics:

Astrid Lindgren:

Bullerbybarnen

Pippi Långstrump

Bröderna Lejonhjärta

Madicken

Mio, min Mio

Lotta på Bråkmakargatan

Rasmus på Luffen

Vi på Saltkråkan

Emil i Lönneberga

Ronja Rövardotter

Karlsson på taket

Elsa Beskow (her illustrations are also iconic for the swedish national romanticism and the jugend era, so if you’re interested in swedish art, Elsa Beskow is a good place to start):

Sagan om den lilla, lilla gumman

Solägget

Tant Brun, tant Grön och tant Gredelin

Tomtebobarnen

Olles skidfärd

Peter Cohen:

Olssons pastejer

Herr Bohm och sillen

Gunilla Bergström:

Alfons Åberg

Barbro Lindgren:

Loranga, Masarin och Dartanjang

Sunkan flyger

Ulf Nilsson:

Adjö, Herr Muffins

Selma Lagerlöf:

Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige

Gösta Berlings saga

Erik Åkerlund:

Bland tomtar och troll (old norse / swedish mythology, made famous by the John Bauer illustrations (and for being an amazing piece of literature))

Tove Jansson (she was a finnish author but she was a finn-swede and alors, she wrote in swedish):

Pappan och havet

Vem ska trösta knyttet?

Muminpappans memoarer

Det osynliga barnet

Trollvinter

Farlig midsommar

Thomas Funck:

Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll

Gösta Knutsson:

Pelle Svanslös

Sven Nordqvist:

Pettson och Findus

Hej hej !Jag hittade det här webbplats. Det är gjort på KTH Stockholm… jag tror det är väldigt värdefullt! … men det behöver ”flash player” för att fungera.

hi! “ändå” can mean slightly different things. it can in one situation mean “anyway”, taking your phrase as an example, this is what “ändå” means. in english this would be “he never drinks coffee anyway”. in this situation “ändå” has to be put in front of the other adverb. 

both “innan” and “före” can be used as prepositions, but only “innan” can be used to initiate a subordinate clause. 

basically: “vi ropar innan farmor ropar” can not be exchanged for “vi ropar före farmor ropar” because innan is followed by a subordinate clause, but had the sentence been “vi ropar innan farmor” it would have been equally correct to say “vi ropar före farmor”.