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Swedish Grammar Essentials

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Swedish grammar essentials: noun genders and articles, declensions, pronouns, adjective agreement, verb groups and the passive voice.

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Grammatical genders in Swedish

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  1. 1Grammatical genders in Swedish
    Two: common (utrum) and neuter (neutrum)
  2. 2Percentage: Swedish nouns are common gender
    Around three quarters (75%)
  3. 3Indefinite article for common gender nouns
    en
  4. 4Indefinite article for neuter gender nouns
    ett
  5. 5Formation: the definite article
    By adding a suffix to the noun: -en/-n for common, -et/-t for neuter
  6. 6Definite form of 'flaska' (bottle)
    flaskan (the bottle)
  7. 7Definite form of 'brev' (letter)
    brevet (the letter)
  8. 8Noun declensions in Swedish
    Five declensions, based on plural endings: -or, -ar, -(e)r, -n, and no ending
  9. 9Plural ending: first declension nouns
    -or (e.g., flicka → flickor)
  10. 10Plural ending: second declension nouns
    -ar (e.g., arm → armar, hund → hundar)
  11. 11Plural ending: third declension nouns
    -er or -r (e.g., park → parker, sko → skor)
  12. 12Plural ending: fourth declension nouns
    -n (e.g., äpple → äpplen, bi → bin)
  13. 13Plural ending: fifth declension nouns
    No ending (e.g., barn → barn, lärare → lärare)
  14. 14Formation: the genitive case
    By adding -s directly to the word (no apostrophe)
  15. 15Do Swedish nouns distinguish between subject and object forms?
    No, only pronouns do
  16. 16Swedish personal pronouns for 'I' and 'me'
    jag (I), mig (me)
  17. 17Swedish personal pronouns for 'you' (singular, familiar)
    du (you), dig (you, object)
  18. 18Swedish personal pronouns for 'he' and 'him'
    han (he), honom (him)
  19. 19Swedish personal pronouns for 'she' and 'her'
    hon (she), henne (her, object)
  20. 20Gender-neutral pronoun
    hen (like singular 'they' in English)
  21. 21Reflexive pronoun in Swedish third person
    sig (oneself/himself/herself/themselves)
  22. 22Do Swedish verbs conjugate for person or number?
    No, modern Swedish verbs do not conjugate for person or number
  23. 23Basic word order
    SVO (Subject-Verb-Object) with V2 word order
  24. 24Agreement: Swedish adjectives with nouns
    By gender, number, and definiteness
  25. 25Ending: an adjective with neuter nouns in singular indefinite
    -t (e.g., en stor björn but ett stort lodjur)
  26. 26Ending: adjectives in plural indefinite
    -a (e.g., stora björnar)
  27. 27Ending: adjectives in the definite form
    -a (e.g., den stora björnen, det stora lodjuret)
  28. 28An additional definite article used in Swedish
    When an adjective or numeral precedes a definite noun (e.g., den nya flaskan)
  29. 29Additional definite articles in Swedish
    den (common), det (neuter), de (plural)
  30. 30Say 'this bottle' in Swedish
    den här flaskan

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