Intermediate Swedish

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. Intonation, sentence stress, word stress and accent
2. Pronunciation, assimilation; 'French' g- and j-; spelling of words in -m, -n
3. Nouns, article use
4. Nouns, irregular plural, plurals in -er or -ar?; count and non-count, collective
5. Adjectives, definite declension Types 3, 4
6. Adjectival nouns; nationality words
7. Pronouns, reflexive possessives hans/sin
8. Verbs, irregular weak verbs, r-stem verbs
9. Verbs, strong verbs, minor series
10. Verbs, use of tenses
11. The infinitive in Swedish and English
12. Verbs, transitive, intransitive and reflexive
13. Verbs, past participles and the passive, position of passive agents
14. Time expressions prepositions
15. Pronouns, interrogative, relative and determinative
16. Translating 'that'
17. Translating the verb 'to be' and some other English verbs
18. Adverbs, amplifiers and ju, nog, val, namligen
19. Preposition or no preposition in Swedish or English, translating 'of'
20. Pronouns and adverbs in main clauses and sub clauses: ingen/inte nagon
21. Present participles
22. Particle verbs
23. Word order, subordinate clauses with main clause order, main clauses with sub clause order
24. Word order, unstressed object pronouns
25. Word order, duplication, emphasis and ellipsis
26. Word formation

Diderichsen's Sentence Model

Key to Exercises

Glossary of grammatical terms