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Mar 18, 2021 · 1. General Rules. In general, Swedish grammar is very similar to English grammar, and English speakers won’t have much trouble dissecting the sentences. But this doesn’t mean that the whole language is easy! Pronunciation and spelling, for instance, have their own challenges—but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
Swedish differs, inter alia, in having a separate third-person reflexive pronoun sig ("oneself"/"himself"/"herself"/"itself"/"themselves" – analogous to Latin se and Slavic sę), and distinct 2nd-person singular forms du ("thou") and ni ("you", formal/respectful), and their objective forms, which have all merged to you in English, while the ...
We have attempted to write an English-language grammar for Swedish with as comprehensive an approach as that found in grammars already available for major world languages. A substantial index is provided to both Swedish and English key words as well as to grammatical concepts. Where possible we have retained traditional linguistic terminology and a
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Swedish being a Germanic language, the syntax shows similarities to both English and German. Like English, Swedish has a Subject Verb Object basic word order, but like German, it utilizes verb-second word order in main clauses, for instance after adverbs, adverbial phrases and dependent clauses.
Before we even begin, it’s worth noting that English and Swedish are related. Both are Germanic languages. Granted, English is West Germanic and Swedish is North Germanic. Still, a lot of the vocabulary and grammar are shared between the two languages. So, it will be easy to learn about these grammatical rules.
Similarities and Differences with English: While Swedish shares many letters with English, there are notable differences in pronunciation. For example, the letter "j" in Swedish is pronounced as a soft "y," akin to the English "y" in words like "yes" or "yellow."
Swedish is a V2-language which means that it will place the verb in second place, always, with no exceptions. There are however some instances where English places the verb later in the sentence and this is where the two languages differ.
