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One way to say that you have a birthday in Swedish is to use the verb fylla<\/strong> (to fill up, load, pack). For example:<\/p>\n – Jag fyller i april = My birthday is in April* Birthday in Swedish is f\u00f6delsedag<\/strong> [\u02c8f\u00f8\u02d0d\u025bls\u025b\u02ccd\u0251\u02d0\u0261 \/\u02c8f\u0153ls\u025b\u02ccd\u0251\u02d0(\u0261)], and Happy Birthday<\/a> is Grattis p\u00e5 f\u00f6delsedagen<\/em>. F\u00f6delsedag comes from f\u00f6delse<\/em> (birth) and dag<\/em> (day). F\u00f6delse comes from f\u00f6da<\/em> (to feed, give birth), which is related to the English words food and feed; and -else<\/em> (a suffix that makes verbs into nouns).<\/p>\n *Could you also say Min f\u00f6delsedag \u00e4r i april<\/em> (My birthday is in April)?<\/p>\n When asking how old someone is in Swedish, could you ask many years they’ve filled? <\/p>\n Is it polite to ask someone’s age in Sweden?<\/p>\n Are there interesting ways to refer to birthdays in other languages?<\/p>\n Sources: bab.la<\/a>, Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One way to say that you have a birthday in Swedish is to use the verb fylla (to fill up, load, pack). For example: – Jag fyller i april = My birthday is in April* – Du fyller \u00e5r i morgen = Tomorrow is your birthday – Han fyller n\u00e4mligen \u00e5r i dag = It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Du fyller \u00e5r i morgen = Tomorrow is your birthday
\n– Han fyller n\u00e4mligen \u00e5r i dag = It’s his birthday today
\n– Hon fyllde 40 \u00e5r i g\u00e5r = She was 40 years old yesterday<\/p>\n