Of or pertaining to Sweden.
Used in a Sentence
swedish
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for swedish.
Editorial note
A Swedish programmer creates an app to be used in Sweden on a Swedish network by Swedish people.
Examples19
Definitions3
Parts of speech2
Quick take
Of or pertaining to Sweden.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of swedish gathered in one view.
Of or pertaining to the Swedish language.
The language of Sweden and Åland (an autonomous part of Finland). Swedish is also one of the two official languages of Finland, spoken by 6% of the citizens. A very small minority in Estonia has Swedish as their mother tongue.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for swedish.
adjective
Of or pertaining to Sweden.
adjective
Of or pertaining to the Swedish language.
noun
The language of Sweden and Åland (an autonomous part of Finland). Swedish is also one of the two official languages of Finland, spoken by 6% of the citizens. A very small minority in Estonia has Swedish as their mother tongue.
Example sentences
A Swedish programmer creates an app to be used in Sweden on a Swedish network by Swedish people.
Which is a lot less likely place for a local dialect to survive than northern Swedish forest is.
Älvdalska still sounds pretty Swedish and we have other North Germanic languages (Icelandic, Faroese) that also kept features that Swedish dropped.
In Swedish history, why did most of the peasants own land, and why did they ally with the king against the nobility?
With Icelandic and Faroese related to Western Old Norse whilst Swedish descends from Eastern.
Of the top ten countries of origin for Swedish immigrants, 6 are predominantly-white European countries, and the rest are countries with majority Muslim population[2].
Muslim immigrants in Sweden have on average a dramatically lower quality-of-life than the general Swedish population and compared to what is being discussed here.
Let me introduce to Swedish progressive income taxation and VAT percent.
Usually there are a couple of Swedish (mostly Stockholm) companies each month I check.
Nice to see Swedish startups getting traction.
The Swedish negative rates are for banks borrowing from the central bank, but in theory there is nothing stopping banks lending money to individuals at a negative interest rate.
A Swedish company called Elektron launched a synthesizer based on the SID, and quite a lot of synth people have bought C64s for the sole purpose of cannibalizing them.
Quote examples
For me the options with "Thailand se" are september, seasons, sevärdheter ("sights" in Swedish).
It's basically a Swedish/Scandinavian "FlyerTalk" community.
Swedish economist (and socialist) Assar Lindbeck asserted, “In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.” Cat got your tongue, comrade?
Nice to see Swedish companies represented on ”Who’s hiring?”.
Proper noun examples
Swedish people are not famous for spelling (or for anything else).
This kind of gender inequality is then seen in 90% of all profession (Swedish statistics from SCB in 2010) where the top 3 have less than 1% of a minority gender.
> because they speak an unique old Norse tongue They don't speak Old Norse, they simply didn't take part in as many changes as in Swedish.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use swedish in a sentence?
A Swedish programmer creates an app to be used in Sweden on a Swedish network by Swedish people.
What does swedish mean?
Of or pertaining to Sweden.
What part of speech is swedish?
swedish is commonly used as adjective, noun.