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Sign up Sign in. Question about Swedish. What is the difference between åka and gå? Feel free to just provide example sentences. Report copyright infringement. The owner of it will not be notified. Only the user who asked this question will see who disagreed with this answer.
Read more comments. Åka is mostly used for vehicles or similar "ride" in English"gå" means "walk". Swedish don't have a general verb corresponding to the english "go", so usually you have to at least differentiate between whether you're going there on foot or via a vehicle.
Det går inte! Ja, det går bra! Sure, that's alright! So, if I want to say "I will go to Germany" I need to use "åka", because I will probably use some kind of a transport? See a translation. Ah, one other thing I just thought of: if you're talking about the actual vehicle going somewhere though, you also use "gå"!
Den här bilen går fort! Where does this train go? It goes to Stockholm. Det går till Stockholm. The one learning a åka eller gå Learn about premium features. Close What are gifts? Show your appreciation in a way that likes and stamps can't.