Hello again Swedish learners,
Thank you for the positive feedback!
Since pronunciation and stress seems to be a popular theme I will also take a closer look on how to stress in full sentences.
Mostly the stressing in sentences is quite logic – you stress a word when it contains new information and/or important information. So you can not say that you always stress this and that, it depends on the situation and what you want to communicate. Luckily there are a couple of thumb rules to hang on to. The categories below would normally be stressed (there are of course always exceptions).
1. Nouns (hund, bil, vatten)
Jag har en hund. Jag kör bil. Kan jag få lite vatten?
2. Main verbs (äter, springer, arbetar)
Han äter. Jag springer. Hon arbetar.
If we ad a noun to these sentences the stressing will most likely change:
Han äter en banan. Jag springer till bussen. Hon arbetar på Skatteverket.
3. Place (Stockholm, hemma, på jobbet)
Jag bor i Stockholm. Han är hemma idag. Anna är på jobbet.
4. Time (klockan sju, på lördag, i går)
Hon vaknar klockan sju. På lördag ska jag gå på bio. Jag åkte skidor igår.
5. Names (Jonas, Göteborg, Volvo)
Jonas jobbar på Volvo i Göteborg. (a lot of singing in this sentence 
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6. Adjectives and certain adverbs (snygg, liten, roligt)
Vad snygg du är! Kan jag få en liten bit? Det var roligt på festen!
When discussing stress in sentences it also very important to pay attention to some words that should not be stressed. First of all you shouldn’t stress question words. The questions should sound like this:
Var bor du? Vem är det? När går bussen? Hur är det? Varför är du i Sverige?
As you can see you should still stress the main verb, the place or any of the other categories metioned above. If you do stress the question words you will sound a bit impatient or almost aggressive, with the result that one you are re talking to will back off and not answer your question
Var booor du? Vad kosssstar det? (Where do you live? What does it cost?)
Another thing worth remembering is that the sentence adverbs are not normally stressed either. Sentence adverbs are those little words that can change the whole meaning of a sentence (inte, alltid, aldrig, kanske, väl, ju, etc etc). Take a look at this example:
Jag kommer inte på festen.
Even though we are not coming to the party, the words for coming and party are still the stressed ones. If someone is speaking really fast it might even sound like this:
Jag kommernte på festen.
So, you might have to listen carefully for these words, since they often are mumbled through.
That was it for today. Good luck with your stressing and don’t hesitate to ask me questions about the wonderful Swedish language 
Sara the Swedish Teacher
Tags: Pronuciation, stress
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