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Modern Swedish has two genders and no longer conjugates verbs based on person or number. Its nouns have lost the morphological distinction between nominative and accusative cases that denoted grammatical subject and object in Old Norse in favor of marking by word order. Swedish uses some inflection with nouns, adjectives, and verbs.
Pages in category "Swedish words and phrases" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Blåhaj;
The word was invented in the capital, Stockholm, during the 18th century since many people from Dalarna, especially from the northern parts of the region, worked in Stockholm at the time. At the time the name Mats was a common name for males from Dalarna, but differences between accents made the name hard to interpret for the people of ...
(Swedish: Hemul – hemul, a legal term, "authority or warrant for something (n.), entitled (adj.)", cf. also adjective ohemul "un-hemul"; "improper, unreasonable") (In Swedish "Hemulen" means "the hemul") – Hemulens feature frequently in the books. One of them is an avid stamp collector, and another is an avid skier.
Phonologically oriented (sound-oriented) spelling holds that every phoneme should correspond to a single grapheme. An example of pure phonological spelling is the word har. The word's three graphemes, har , each correspond to a single phoneme, /har/. [4] In Swedish, phonological spelling is used for vowels, with two exceptions.
Swedish uses the letter x in native words, but Danish and Norwegian use ks instead. In Swedish orthography, the etymological hv was abolished in 1906. Danish and Bokmål Norwegian still use it, although in some Norwegian words it is simplified to v (verv, virvel, veps and optionally in verken/hverken).
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This is a list of English words borrowed from the Swedish language. aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds" [1] fartlek, "endurance training in which a runner alternates periods of sprinting with periods of jogging" [2] gantelope, "gauntlet" [3]