Intermediate Swedish

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface






Intonation, sentence stress, word stress and accent



Pronunciation, assimilation; 'French' g- and j-; spelling of words in -m, -n



Nouns, article use



Nouns, irregular plural, plurals in -er or -ar?; count and non-count, collective



Adjectives, definite declension Types 3, 4



Adjectival nouns; nationality words



Pronouns, reflexive possessives hans/sin



Verbs, irregular weak verbs, r-stem verbs



Verbs, strong verbs, minor series



Verbs, use of tenses



The infinitive in Swedish and English



Verbs, transitive, intransitive and reflexive



Verbs, past participles and the passive, position of passive agents



Time expressions prepositions



Pronouns, interrogative, relative and determinative



Translating 'that'



Translating the verb 'to be' and some other English verbs



Adverbs, amplifiers and ju, nog, vael, naemligen



Preposition or no preposition in Swedish or English, translating 'of'



Pronouns and adverbs in main clauses and sub clauses: ingen/inte nagon



Present participles



Particle verbs



Word order, subordinate clauses with main clause order, main clauses with sub clause order



Word order, unstressed object pronouns



Word order, duplication, emphasis and ellipsis



Word formation

Diderichsen's Sentence Model

Key to Exercises

Glossary of grammatical terms