How to say "the"

This is where it all starts to get a bit tricky.

The Swedes don't have a word for "the" - instead they put either "ett" or "en" at the end of the word.

So if I was saying "the lift" they would write "liften" but the word for lift is "hiss" so it would be "hissen."

That's easy. But where it gets hard is knowing when to put "en" and when to put "ett"

You use "en" if the noun is common gender and "ett" if it is neuter gender - But it isn't easy to know which words are common and which are neuter.

I ask Malin and even she says there is no way of actually knowing, you just have to pick it up through listening and speaking Swedish.

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I've also learnt to count to twelve! Which is fitting because in "tolv" days I shall be in stockholm!