Colors & Appearance in Swedish

This lesson will teach you to describe the colors and appearance of people and things in Swedish. Learn to express whether something is big or small, red or green, beautiful of ugly.

Contents

Colors
Appearance & attributes
Questions & phrases
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This lesson is part of the chapter “Learning Swedish“.

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Colors

	English	Swedish	Pronunciation (Audio)
	light / clear	ljus
	dark	mörk
	color	färg
	colored	färgad
	white	vit
	black	svart
	yellow	gul
	orange	orange
	red	röd
	pink	rosa
	violet	violett
	blue	blå
	green	grön
	brown	brun
	grey	grå

Appearance & attributes

	English	Swedish	Pronunciation (Audio)
	new	ny
	old	gammal
	small	liten
	large / big	stor
	young	ung
	kind / pleasant	trevlig
	unkind / unpleasant	otrevlig
	patient	tålmodig
	tall (When talking about people)	lång
	middle sized (When talking about people)	medelstor
	small (When talking about people)	liten
	fat	fet
	thin / slim	smal
	nice / pretty	snygg
	beautiful	vacker
	ugly	ful
	ill / sick	sjuk
	healthy	hälsosam
	happy / cheerful	lycklig
	sad	ledsen
	sporty	sportig
	ambitioned	ambitionerad
	intelligent	intelligent
	creative	kreativ
	active	aktiv
	sentimental	sentimental
	rational	rationell
	emotional	känslosam
	natural	naturell
	romantic	romantisk
	nice / amiable	sympatisk
	spontaneous	spontan
	energetic	energisk
	stressed (out)	stressad
	relaxed	avslappnad
	frustrated	frustrerad
	talented	talangfull

Questions & phrases

	English	Swedish	Pronunciation (Audio)
	What does he look like?	Hur ser han ut?
	What does she look like?	Hur ser hon ut?
	What is he like?	Hur är han?
	What is she like?	Hur är hon?

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