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Facts about Swedish[edit | edit source]
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
swe - Autonyms (how to write "Swedish" in Swedish):
Svenska - Other names for "Swedish":
Ruotsi, Svenska - The Swedish language is spoken in:
Sweden & Finland - Spoken by:
around 10.4 million speakers
Swedish is a Scandinavian language spoken by approximately 10.4 million speakers, mainly in Sweden and Finland, the two countries where it is an official language. Like the other Scandinavian languages, it comes from Old Norse, the common language of all the Germanic peoples of Scandinavia during the Viking Age. It remains today mutually intelligible with Danish and Norwegian. The written and spoken language is standardized, but there are regional variants from the old rural dialects.
Like most Germanic languages, Swedish is a V2 language: the verb appears in second position in the main clauses. The morphology presents a reduced number of flexions. There are two genders (common and neuter) and two numbers (singular and plural), but no cases. By default, the definite article is a postposed clitic, but there are also separate articles. The adjective agrees with the noun in gender and in number, but also according to its definite character or not. Phonologically, Swedish has a significant number of vowels, as well as a distinctive consonant, the sj, the exact phonetic realization of which varies between dialects and remains debated.
Sources[edit | edit source]
Swedish Resources[edit | edit source]
Dictionaries[edit | edit source]
• Svenska Akademiens ordbok: Dictionary of the Swedish Academy, meanings in Swedish & etymology
• Ord.se: Swedish-English dictionary
• Lingea: Swedish-English dictionary & multilingual
• Folkets: Swedish-English dictionary
• Iate: multilingual terminological dictionary (European Union)
• Lexin: Swedish dictionary
• Lagom: Swedish-Dutch dictionary
• Azoria: Swedish-French dictionary
• Loecsen: useful expressions Swedish-English (+ audio)
• Goethe-Verlag: Swedish-English common phrases & illustrated vocabulary (+ audio)
• Shtooka: Swedish words, with translation (audio)
• Svensk-engelsk ordbok för utbildningsområdet: Swedish-English dictionary of education
• Projekt Runeberg: online Swedish dictionaries
• Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska spraket: Swedish orthographe, published by the Swedish Academy (1991 & previous editions)
• Ord för ord, svenska synonymer och uttryck: synonyms dictionary, by Johan Palmér, Herbert Friedländer, Nils Hänninger (1984)
• Våra ord, deras uttal och ursprung: origin and pronunciation of the Swedish words, by Elias Wessén (1973, revised edition)
• Svensk etymologisk ordbok: Swedish etymological dictionary, by Elof Hellquists (1922) or on Internet archive
• Glossarium öfver föråldrade eller ovanliga ord och talesätt: Swedish obselete words, by Fredrik August Dahlgren (1914)
• Svenskt dialektlexikon, ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket: dictionary of the Swedish dialects, by Johan Ernst Rietz (1862) ou version Google
• Nordisk familjebok Konversationslexikon och Realencyklopedi: 1899 edition (20 volumes) & 1926 (38 volumes)
• Nusvensk ordbok: Swedish dictionary, by Olaf Östergren (1915) A-E - F-G - H-K - L-O - P-Sh (incomplete)
• Våra vanligaste främmande ord: foreign words, by Olaf Östergren (1957)
• Ordbok öfver svenska språket: dictionary of the Swedish language, by Anders Fredrik Dalin (1850) A-K & L-Ö or online search
• Svenska språkets synonymer: synonyms of the Swedish language, by Anders Fredrik Dalin (1870)
• Svenska etymologier: Swedish etymology, by Adolf Noreen (1897)
• Ordklyfverier, en etymologisk hjälpreda: Swedish etymology, by Robert Geete (1888)
• Svensk-engelsk ordbok: Swedish-English dictionary, by Walter Harlock (1964)
• English-Swedish dictionary by Karl Kärre, Harald Lindkvist, Ruben Nöjd, Mats Redin (1948)
• Engelsk-svensk ordbok: English-Swedish dictionary, by Edmund Wenström & Erik Lindgren (1919)
• Burt's Swedish-English dictionary (1900)
• Pocket dictionary of the English and Swedish languages (1890)
• Swedish self-taught, with phonetic pronunciation & vocabularies, elementary grammar, idiomatic phrases and dialogues, travel talk, by Carl Thimm
• Svenskt och engelskt lexicon: Swedish-English dictionary, by Gustaf Widegren (1788)
• English and Swedish dictionary (and also Latin) by Jakob Serenius (1757)
• Svensk–dansk-norsk ordbog: Swedish–Danish-Norwegian dictionary, by Ida Falbe-Hansen (1912)
• Dansk-norsk–svensk ordbok: Danish-Norwegian–Swedish dictionary, by Ida Natanael Beckman (1907)
• Svensk-tysk ordbok: Swedish-German dictionary, by Otto Hoppe (1916)
• Tysk-svensk ordbok: German-Swedish dictionary (1904)
• Svensk-fransk ordbok: Swedish-French dictionary, by Ferdinand Schulthess (1901)
• Vocabulaire français, Fransk vokabelsamling: French-Swedish vocabulary by topics, by Gotthard Gullberg (1885)
• Svenskt-finskt lexikon: Swedish-Finnish dictionary, by Ferdinand Ahlman (1865)
• Swensk-latinsk ordbok: Swedish-Latin dictionary, by Christian Cavallin (1876)
• Swensk ordbok med latinsk uttolkning, Dictionarium svecicum: Swedish-Latin dictionary, by Abraham Sahlstedt (1773)
• Svenskt-grekiskt lexikon: Swedish-Greek dictionary, by Carl Linder & Carl Walberg (1862)
• Biblisk ordbok: biblical dictionary, by Erik Nyström (1896)
• Swenskt dialect lexicon: dictionary of the Swedish dialects, by Johan Ihre (1766)
• Dialectus vestrogothica: the Swedish dialects, by Sven Hof (1772)
• Historiska: Swedish first names, meanings and origins
• Statistiska centralbyrån: the most popular names in Sweden
Other resources[edit | edit source]
Sources[edit | edit source]
- https://www.lexilogos.com/english/swedish_dictionary.htm
- https://www.101languages.net/swedish/swedish-resources/
Free Swedish Lessons[edit | edit source]
Language Exchange[edit | edit source]
Forum[edit | edit source]
Tools[edit | edit source]
Marketplace[edit | edit source]
Swedish Online Virtual Keyboard[edit | edit source]
Last Lessons[edit | edit source]
Future tense — Past tense — Present tense — Workplace Swedish — Job applications and interviews — Types of jobs — Compound adjectives — Comparison of adjectives — Basic adjectives — Swedish politics and society — Modern Sweden — Vikings and Middle Ages — Giving directions — Booking a trip — Means of transportation — Plural nouns — Definite and indefinite nouns — Gender of nouns — At the doctor's — Symptoms and illnesses — Body parts — Verbs with prepositions — Swedish geography — Swedish holidays — Swedish food — Swedish customs — Numbers above 100 — Numbers 20 100 — Numbers 0 20 — Possessive pronouns