English
Etymology
From Swede + -ish. Cognate with Dutch Zweeds, German Schwedisch.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Swedish (countable and uncountable, plural Swedishes)
- 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.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Swedish.
Hypernyms
- East Scandinavian
- East Scandinavian language
Derived terms
Translations
language
- Afrikaans: Sweeds (af) n
- Albanian: gjuha suedeze
- Antillean Creole: syédwa m
- Arabic: سُوَيْدِيَّة (ar) f (suwēdiyya)
- Armenian: շվեդերեն (hy) (švederen)
- Asturian: suecu (ast) m
- Basque: suediera (eu)
- Belarusian: шве́дская мо́ва f (švjédskaja móva), шве́дская f (švjédskaja)
- Bengali: সুইডীয় ভাষা (suiḍiẏo bhaśa)
- Bulgarian: шве́дски m (švédski)
- Catalan: suec (ca) m, suedès m
- Chechen: шведийн мотт (šʷediı̇n mott)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 瑞典語 / 瑞典语 (zh) (Ruìdiǎn yǔ)
- Corsican: svedese (co) m, svidese m
- Czech: švédština (cs) f
- Danish: svensk (da) n
- Dhivehi: ސުވެޑިޝް (dv) (suveḍiš)
- Dutch: Zweeds (nl) n
- Esperanto: sveda lingvo, sveda (eo)
- Estonian: rootsi keel
- Faroese: svenskt (fo) n
- Finnish: ruotsi (fi), ruotsin kieli
- French: suédois (fr) m
- Galician: sueco (gl) m
- Georgian: შვედური (ka) (šveduri), შვედური ენა (šveduri ena)
- German: Schwedisch (de) n
- Greek: σουηδικά (el) n pl (souidiká)
- Greenlandic: svenskisut
- Haitian Creole: syedwa, syèdwa
- Hebrew: שבדית (he) f (shvedít)
- Hindi: स्वीडिश (hi) (svīḍiś), स्वीडियाई (hi) f (svīḍiyāī)
- Hungarian: svéd (hu)
- Icelandic: sænska (is) f
- Ido: Suediana (io)
- Indonesian: bahasa Swedia
- Interlingua: lingua svedese
- Irish: sualainnis f
- Italian: svedese (it) m
- Japanese: スウェーデン語 (ja) (Suwēden go)
- Karelian: ruočči
- Korean: 스웨덴어 (ko) (seuwedeneo)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: سْویدی (ckb) (siwîdî)
- Northern Kurdish: swêdî (ku)
- Latin: lingua Suecica f
- Latvian: zviedru valoda f, zviedru
- Limburgish: Zwèdsj n
- Lithuanian: švedų (lt) f
- Low German:
- German Low German: Sweedsch (nds) n
- Luxembourgish: Schwedesch n
- Malagasy: soedoa (mg)
- Maltese: Żvediż (mt)
- Mingrelian: შვედური ნინა (šveduri nina)
- Northern Sami: ruoŧagiella, ruoŧŧa
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: svensk (no) m
- Nynorsk: svensk (nn) m
- Occitan: suèc m, suedés (oc) m
- Polish: szwedzki (pl) m inan
- Portuguese: sueco (pt) m
- Romanian: suedeză (ro) f
- Russian: шве́дский (ru) m (švédskij)
- Scots: Swadish
- Scottish Gaelic: Suainis f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: шведски m
- Roman: švedski (sh) m
- Slovak: švédčina (sk) f
- Slovene: švédščina (sl) f
- Southern Sami: ruoŧagiella
- Spanish: sueco (es) m
- Swahili: Kiswidi
- Swedish: svenska (sv) c
- Tigrinya: ስዊድንኛ (səwidnəña)
- Turkish: İsveççe (tr)
- Ukrainian: шве́дська мо́ва (uk) f (švédsʹka móva), шве́дська (uk) f (švédsʹka)
- Venetan: svedexe (vec) m
- Vietnamese: tiếng Thụy Điển (vi), tiếng Thụy-Điển
- Volapük: Svedänapük (vo)
- Welsh: Swedeg (cy)
- West Frisian: Sweedsk (fy) n
- Yiddish: שוועדיש (yi) n (shvedish)
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See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Swedish terms
- Appendix:Swedish Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Swedish
Further reading
Adjective
Swedish (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to Sweden.
- Of or pertaining to the Swedish language.
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Translations
of or pertaining to Sweden
- Afrikaans: Sweeds (af)
- Albanian: suedez (sq)
- Arabic: سُوَيْدِيّ (suwēdiyy)
- Armenian: շվեդական (hy) (švedakan)
- Asturian: suecu (ast)
- Azerbaijani: isveç
- Basque: suediar
- Belarusian: шве́дскі (švjédski), швэ́дзкі (švédzki)
- Bengali: সুইডিশ (suiḍiś), সুইডীয় (suiḍiẏo)
- Bulgarian: шве́дски (švédski)
- Burmese: ဆွီဒင် (hcwidang)
- Catalan: suec (ca)
- Chechen: шведийн (šʷediı̇n)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 瑞典的 (zh) (Ruìdiǎn de)
- Czech: švédský (cs)
- Danish: svensk (da)
- Dutch: Zweeds (nl), Zweedse (nl)
- Esperanto: sveda (eo)
- Estonian: rootsi
- Finnish: ruotsalainen (fi)
- French: suédois (fr)
- Georgian: შვედური (ka) (šveduri), შვედეთის (švedetis)
- German: schwedisch (de)
- Greenlandic: svenskeq, svenskisut
- Hawaiian: Kuekene
- Hebrew: שוודי \ שְׁוֶדִי (he)
- Hindi: स्वीडिश (hi) (svīḍiś), स्वीडियाई (hi) (svīḍiyāī)
- Hungarian: svéd (hu)
- Icelandic: sænskur (is) m
- Ido: Suediala (io)
- Interlingua: svedese (ia)
- Irish: Sualannach
- Italian: svedese (it)
- Japanese: スウェーデンの (ja) (Suwēden no)
- Karelian: ruočči
- Kazakh: швед (şved)
- Khmer: ស៊ុយអែត (km) (suyʼaet)
- Korean: 스웨덴의 (ko) (seuwedenui)
- Kyrgyz: швед (şved)
- Lao: ສະວີເດັນ (lo) (sa wī den)
- Latin: suecus m
- Latvian: zviedru, zviedrisks
- Lithuanian: švedų (lt), švediškas
- Macedonian: шведски (švedski)
- Mongolian: швед (šved)
- Northern Sami: ruoŧa
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: svensk (no)
- Nynorsk: svensk (nn)
- Occitan: suedés (oc)
- Old English: *Swēonisċ
- Persian: سوئدی (fa) (su'edi)
- Polish: szwedzki (pl)
- Portuguese: sueco (pt)
- Romanian: suedez (ro)
- Russian: шве́дский (ru) (švédskij)
- Scottish Gaelic: Suaineach
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: шведски, швеђански
- Roman: švedski (sh), šveđanski
- Slovak: švédsky (sk)
- Slovene: švédski (sl)
- Spanish: sueco (es)
- Swedish: svensk (sv)
- Tajik: шведӣ (tg) (švedi)
- Tatar: швед (şwed)
- Thai: สวีเดน (th) (sà-wii-den)
- Turkish: İsveçli (tr), İsveç (tr)
- Turkmen: şwed
- Ukrainian: шве́дський (uk) (švédsʹkyj)
- Uyghur: شۋېتسىيە (shwëtsiye)
- Uzbek: shved (uz)
- Venetan: svedexe (vec)
- Welsh: Swedaidd
- Yiddish: שוועדיש (yi) (shvedish)
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of or pertaining to the Swedish language
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