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Knowledge of English in Sweden as reported by Swedes, 2005. [2] Very good: 31% Good: 37% Basic: 21% Not enough: 11%. The name Swenglish is a portmanteau term of the names of the two languages and is first recorded from 1938, making it one of the oldest names for a hybrid form of English. [3]
Swedish is the official language of Sweden and is spoken by the vast majority of the 10.23 million inhabitants of the country. It is a North Germanic language and quite similar to its sister Scandinavian languages, Danish and Norwegian, with which it maintains partial mutual intelligibility and forms a dialect continuum.
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]
Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]
Language formed from English and Vanuatuan languages, with some French influence. Bosnian: bos: bos: Individual Living Босански (Bosanski) Breton: bre: bre: Individual Living Brezhoneg Bulgarian: bul: bul: Individual Living Български (Bulgarski) Burmese: mya: bur: mya: Individual Living မြန်မာစာ (Mrãmācā ...
Swedish (endonym: svenska [ˈsvɛ̂nːska] ⓘ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland. [2] It has at least 10 million native speakers, making it the fourth most spoken Germanic language, and the first among its type in the Nordic countries overall.
In English this form is normally merged with the past participle, or the preterite, and this was formerly the case in Swedish, too (the choice of -it or -et being dialectal rather than grammatical); however, in modern Swedish, they are separate, since the distinction of -it being supine and -et being participial was standardised.
The Modern English name Sweden was loaned from Dutch.Before the gradual introduction of Sweden in the 17th century, English used Swedeland or Sweathland. [7]It is based on Middle Dutch Zweden, the Dutch name of Sweden, and in origin the dative plural of Zwede "Swede".