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English
Wiktionary
A podcast talk to Swedish
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 .
Hypernyms
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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 )
Catalan: suec (ca) m , suedès m
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
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 )
See also
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)
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 )
of or pertaining to the Swedish language
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