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*'''Autonyms''' (''how to write "Swedish" in Swedish''): <code>Svenska</code>
*'''Autonyms''' (''how to write "Swedish" in Swedish''): <code>Svenska</code>
*'''Other names for "Swedish"''': <code>Ruotsi, Svenska</code>
*'''Other names for "Swedish"''': <code>Ruotsi, Svenska</code>
*'''The Swedish language is spoken in''': <code>Sweden</code>
*'''The Swedish language is spoken in''': <code>Sweden & Finland</code>
*'''Spoken by''': <code>around 10.4 million speakers</code>
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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.


Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken natively by at least 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish.


It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish, although the degree of mutual intelligibility is largely dependent on the dialect and accent of the speaker.  
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.
 
Written Norwegian and Danish are usually more easily understood by Swedish speakers than the spoken languages, due to the differences in tone, accent and intonation. Swedish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the '''Viking''' Era. It has more speakers than any other North Germanic language.


===Sources===
===Sources===
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language
==Swedish Dictionaries==
* https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su%C3%A9dois


==Swedish Resources==
===Dictionaries===
<span class="jb">•</span> [https://www.saob.se/ Svenska Akademiens ordbok]: Dictionary of the Swedish Academy, meanings in Swedish &amp; etymology
<span class="jb">•</span> [https://www.saob.se/ Svenska Akademiens ordbok]: Dictionary of the Swedish Academy, meanings in Swedish &amp; etymology


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<span class="jb">•</span> [https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/befolkning/amnesovergripande-statistik/namnstatistik/ Statistiska centralbyrån]: the most popular names in Sweden
<span class="jb">•</span> [https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/befolkning/amnesovergripande-statistik/namnstatistik/ Statistiska centralbyrån]: the most popular names in Sweden
===Other resources===
<table class="wikitable">
<tr>
<th>Category</th><th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Phrases</td><td>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/quickfix/swedish.shtml Essential phrases from BBC]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Vocabulary</td><td>[http://www.swedish-flashcards.com/ Swedish Flashcards]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dictionary</td><td>[http://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Huvudsida Swedish Wiktionary (in Swedish)]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Translate</td><td>[http://www.ord.se/ An excellent English-Swedish translation site]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Phrases</td><td>[http://www.surfacelanguages.com/language/Swedish Lists of words and phrases with audio pronunciation]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Free Course</td><td>[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Swedish Swedish course from Wikibooks]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Translate</td><td>[http://translate.google.com/#auto/sv/ Google Translate]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Free Course</td><td>[http://www2.hhs.se/isa/swedish/ Introduction to Swedish course]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Books</td><td>[http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/sv Read and download Swedish language books for free]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Books</td><td>[http://www.scribd.com/doc/29062873/Colloquial-Swedish Colloquial Swedish]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Blog</td><td>[http://www.swedishfreak.com/ Swedish Freak]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Phrases</td><td>[http://www.goethe-verlag.com/book2/EN/ENSV/ENSV002.HTM Simple Swedish phrases with audio]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Phrases</td><td>[http://www.ielanguages.com/swedish.html Basic Phrases, Vocabulary and Grammar]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mobile</td><td>[http://play.google.com/store/search?q=learn+swedish Find Swedish learning apps for your Android device]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>General Info</td><td>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language Overview of the Swedish language from Wikipedia]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quiz</td><td>[http://iteslj.org/v/sw/ English-Swedish Vocabulary Quizzes]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Grammar</td><td>[http://www.hum.uit.no/a/svenonius/lingua/flow/co/gram/rfgrsv/rfgrsv.html A thorough overview of Swedish grammar]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Games</td><td>[http://www.digitaldialects.com/Swedish.htm Free Swedish games with pictures]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Paid Course</td><td>[https://go.babbel.com/c281s008/default Babbel Swedish]</td>
</tr>
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<td>Dictionary</td><td>[http://www.synonymer.se/ Dictionary of Swedish synonyms]</td>
</tr>
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<td>Phrases</td><td>[http://www.loecsen.com/travel/0-en-14-2-23-free-lessons-swedish.html Swedish phrases with audio and pictures]</td>
</tr>
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<td>Blog</td><td>[http://blogs.transparent.com/swedish/ Swedish Language blog from Transparent Language]</td>
</tr>
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<td>Paid Course</td><td>[http://www.swedishpod101.com/member/go.php?r=3243 Swedish Pod 101]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Radio</td><td>[http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=493" target="_blank">Klartext - Simplified Swedish News (with Audio)]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Books</td><td>[http://books.google.com/books?id=o_cpAAAAYAAJ Swedish Self-Taught]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Translate</td><td>[http://tyda.se/ Another good translation engine]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Free Course</td><td>[http://www.memrise.com/courses/english/swedish/ Learn vocabulary in context with Memrise]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quiz</td><td>[http://www2.nok.se/laromedel/sprakverktyg/2.html Swedish as a Second Language Exercises (in Swedish)]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Phrases</td><td>[http://wikitravel.org/en/Swedish_phrasebook Basic Swedish phrases from Wikitravel]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Audio</td><td>[http://www.forvo.com/languages/sv/ Listen to Swedish words spoken by users]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Grammar</td><td>[http://www.verbix.com/languages/swedish.shtml Conjugate Swedish verbs online]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Translate</td><td>[http://folkets-lexikon.csc.kth.se/folkets/folkets.en.html Superb Swedish translator/dictionary with pronunciations]</td>
</tr>
</table>
===Sources===
===Sources===
https://www.lexilogos.com/english/swedish_dictionary.htm
* https://www.lexilogos.com/english/swedish_dictionary.htm
* https://www.101languages.net/swedish/swedish-resources/
 
==Free Swedish Lessons==
==Free Swedish Lessons==


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==Swedish Online Virtual Keyboard==
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== Last Lessons ==
[[Language/Swedish/Grammar/Future-tense|Future tense]] — [[Language/Swedish/Grammar/Past-tense|Past tense]] — [[Language/Swedish/Grammar/Present-tense|Present tense]] — [[Language/Swedish/Vocabulary/Workplace-Swedish|Workplace Swedish]] — [[Language/Swedish/Vocabulary/Job-applications-and-interviews|Job applications and interviews]] — [[Language/Swedish/Vocabulary/Types-of-jobs|Types of jobs]] — [[Language/Swedish/Grammar/Compound-adjectives|Compound adjectives]] — [[Language/Swedish/Grammar/Comparison-of-adjectives|Comparison of adjectives]] — [[Language/Swedish/Grammar/Basic-adjectives|Basic adjectives]] — [[Language/Swedish/Culture/Swedish-politics-and-society|Swedish politics and society]] — [[Language/Swedish/Culture/Modern-Sweden|Modern Sweden]] — [[Language/Swedish/Culture/Vikings-and-Middle-Ages|Vikings and Middle Ages]] — [[Language/Swedish/Vocabulary/Giving-directions|Giving directions]] — [[Language/Swedish/Vocabulary/Booking-a-trip|Booking a trip]] — [[Language/Swedish/Vocabulary/Means-of-transportation|Means of transportation]] — [[Language/Swedish/Grammar/Plural-nouns|Plural nouns]] — [[Language/Swedish/Grammar/Definite-and-indefinite-nouns|Definite and indefinite nouns]] — [[Language/Swedish/Grammar/Gender-of-nouns|Gender of nouns]] — [[Language/Swedish/Vocabulary/At-the-doctor's|At the doctor's]] — [[Language/Swedish/Vocabulary/Symptoms-and-illnesses|Symptoms and illnesses]] — [[Language/Swedish/Vocabulary/Body-parts|Body parts]] — [[Language/Swedish/Grammar/Verbs-with-prepositions|Verbs with prepositions]] — [[Language/Swedish/Culture/Swedish-geography|Swedish geography]] — [[Language/Swedish/Culture/Swedish-holidays|Swedish holidays]] — [[Language/Swedish/Culture/Swedish-food|Swedish food]] — [[Language/Swedish/Culture/Swedish-customs|Swedish customs]] — [[Language/Swedish/Vocabulary/Numbers-above-100|Numbers above 100]] — [[Language/Swedish/Vocabulary/Numbers-20-100|Numbers 20 100]] — [[Language/Swedish/Vocabulary/Numbers-0-20|Numbers 0 20]] — [[Language/Swedish/Grammar/Possessive-pronouns|Possessive pronouns]]
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Latest revision as of 22:50, 29 March 2023

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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)

• synonyms dictionary

• morpholocial dictionary

• rhyming dictionary

• 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]

CategoryDescription
PhrasesEssential phrases from BBC
VocabularySwedish Flashcards
DictionarySwedish Wiktionary (in Swedish)
TranslateAn excellent English-Swedish translation site
PhrasesLists of words and phrases with audio pronunciation
Free CourseSwedish course from Wikibooks
TranslateGoogle Translate
Free CourseIntroduction to Swedish course
BooksRead and download Swedish language books for free
BooksColloquial Swedish
BlogSwedish Freak
PhrasesSimple Swedish phrases with audio
PhrasesBasic Phrases, Vocabulary and Grammar
MobileFind Swedish learning apps for your Android device
General InfoOverview of the Swedish language from Wikipedia
QuizEnglish-Swedish Vocabulary Quizzes
GrammarA thorough overview of Swedish grammar
GamesFree Swedish games with pictures
Paid CourseBabbel Swedish
DictionaryDictionary of Swedish synonyms
PhrasesSwedish phrases with audio and pictures
BlogSwedish Language blog from Transparent Language
Paid CourseSwedish Pod 101
Radio" target="_blank">Klartext - Simplified Swedish News (with Audio)
BooksSwedish Self-Taught
TranslateAnother good translation engine
Free CourseLearn vocabulary in context with Memrise
QuizSwedish as a Second Language Exercises (in Swedish)
PhrasesBasic Swedish phrases from Wikitravel
AudioListen to Swedish words spoken by users
GrammarConjugate Swedish verbs online
TranslateSuperb Swedish translator/dictionary with pronunciations

Sources[edit | edit source]

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

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