There are certain words who have changed with time but whose old "longer" forms are still used (they still mean the same thing) någonting/nånting/något/nått - something någon/nån - somebody sådant/sånt - "like that" (nått sånt - something like that) ingenting/inget - nothing ingen - nobody (that's when you're speaking generally, when you're using a substantive you also need to match the pronoun with the gender, "jag har inte nån bil/nått hus" (I don't have any car/house) So if you see two words who resemble eachother but they mean the same thing, then you'll know that one is just the longer "original" form :)

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