Swedish: An Essential Grammar

Freelance translator Freelance translator, formerly at the University of Hull, UK

Preface  Symbols and abbreviations used in the text  Introduction  1  PRONUNCIATION   Vowels  Consonants and consonant groups  2  STRESS AND ACCENT  3  NOUNS  Gender and noun type  Indefinite declension  Plural forms  Differences between Swedish and English number  Definite declension  Article use  Genitives  4  ADJECTIVES  Indefinite declension  Definite declension  Adjectival nouns and nationality words  Comparison of adjectives  5  PRONOUNS  6  NUMERALS  7  VERBS  The four conjugations  Participles and supine  Translating verbs  The use of the infinitive and different verbal constructions  8  ADVERBS  9  INTERJECTIONS  10  PREPOSITIONS  Translating prepositions  11  CONJUNCTIONS  12  WORD ORDER and SENTENCE STRUCTURE  Main clause positions (sentence elements)  Moving elements within the main clause  Subordinate clauses  Differences between Swedish and English word order  13  WORD FORMATION  14  ORTHOGRAPHY  15  PUNCTUATION  16  WRITTEN AND SPOKEN SWEDISH  Linguistic terms  Short bibliography  Index