Ultimate Swedish Notebook
64 topics
3000+ unique words
600+ phrases
160 pages
63 pages of vocabulary
15 pages of grammar
75 empty pages
Author: Kristian Muthugalage
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ISBN: 9789528078364
1. Learn how to ask and answer one question a day
Do this and you will be able to form 365 questions and answers in one year
| Reading | Listening |
| Writing | Speaking |
| Language learning resources | |
| Applications | Duolingo, Memrise, Lingvist etc. |
| Books | Read books/e-books/online articles about topics that interest you |
| Flashcards | Make them yourself or use quizlet or other flashcard apps |
| Language class | Attend a language class |
| Movies | Watch movies and try to pick up as many new words as you can |
| Music | Listen to music you like, www.radio.net has radio channels from all over the world |
| News | Watch and listen to the news in your target language |
| Notebook | Write in your Ultimate Swedish Notebook |
| Pen pal | Find a penpal to whom you can write real letters or chat online |
| Podcast | Listen to interesting podcasts on Youtube, Soundcloud or Spotify |
| Recording yourself | Record yourself reading a text sample and then listen to your own recording |
| Singing | Learn the lyrics of songs you like in Swedish |
| Speaking with natives | Talk to natives while traveling or find them at your home city |
| Videos | Watch videos on Youtube or Vimeo about topics that interest you |
Use all other resources together with this notebook. Add all the new words and phrases under one of the 64 topics or create a new topic in the empty pages. This is the center of all your knowledge in Swedish language.
Timeline of Swedish history
| Ancient Sweden | |
| 98 | Sweden was mentioned for the first time in a written source "Germania" by Tacitus |
| Viking Era | |
| 700-1000 | The Swedish Viking Age lasted roughly between this time |
| 829 | St. Ansgar introduced Christianity which fully replaced paganism in the 12th century |
| Christian Sweden | |
| 1050 | Sweden was counted as a Christian nation |
| Sweden in the 1200s | |
| 1249 | Birger Jarl annexed present-day Finland to Sweden |
| Sweden in the 1300s | |
| 1319 | Sweden and Norway were united under King Magnus Eriksson |
| 1335 | Slavery and serfdom were abolished by King Magnus IV |
| 1364 | The Swedish nobility chose the German Albrekt av Mecklenburg as their king |
| 1397 | Queen Margaret I of Denmark united Denmark, Sweden and Norway as the Kalmar Union as a counterforce against the German Hanseatic League |
| Sweden in the 1500s | |
| 1520 | Danish King Christian II ordered the massacre of Swedish nobles in Stockholm |
| 1523 | Gustav Vasa becomes the King of Sweden and Sweden leaves the Kalmar Union |
| Sweden in the 1600s | |
| 1630 | Sweden's most powerful leader in history, Gustav Adolphus engaged Sweden into the Thirty Years' War, which had started in 1618. He died in 1632 himself at the battle of Lützen |
| 1648 | The Thirty Years' War ends and Sweden gets large areas in Northern Germany and Sweden also conquered colonies like New Sweden (Delaware) and Gold Coast (Ghana), which were quickly lost |
| Sweden in the 1700s | |
| 1700 | The Great Northern War started with Swedish and Russian troops fighting against each other and later Swedish and Poland-Lithuania's troops, Sweden was victorious against both of them |
| 1709 | Sweden lost a battle against Russia, which meant the beginning of the end for the Swedish Empire |
| 1721 | Treaty of Nystad, Sweden lost large areas of land and its place as an empire and the dominant state in the Baltic Sea and as a result Russia started emerging as an empire becoming one of Europe's most dominant nations |
| Sweden in the 1800s | |
| 1809 | Sweden lost its eastern part to Russia which became the Grand Duchy of Finland |
| 1814 | Sweden's last time at war as it took Norway by force from Denmark after the Napoleonic Wars |
| 1850-1910 | About one million Swedes emigrated to USA from the poverty and famine in Sweden |
| Sweden in the 1900s | |
| 1905 | Norway became independent from Sweden after a referendum |
| 1917 | Communist revolution was avoided in Sweden |
| 1943 | Sweden helped rescuing Danish Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps |
| 1947 | Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA |
| 1974 | Swedish band ABBA's song, Waterloo, became a global hit |
| 1986 | Prime Minister Olof Palme was murdered |
| 1995 | Sweden joined the European Union |
| 2003 | The majority voted not to adopt the Euro as the country's official currency |
Sweden
| Official name: | Konungariket Sverige - Kingdom of Sweden | |
| Capital city: | Stockholm | |
| Official language: | Swedish | |
| Population: | 10,333,456 | |
| Population density: | 23/km2 | |
| Area: | 450,295 km2 | |
| GDP total: | $563.882 billion | |
| GDP per capita: | $54,628 | |
| Currency: | Swedish krona (SEK) | |
| Driving side: | Right | |
| Biggest cities: | 1. Stockholm | 952,058 |
| 2. Gothenburg | 565,496 | |
| 3. Malmö | 334,987 | |
| 4. Uppsala | 221,141 | |
| 5. Linköping | 158,953 | |
| 6. Örebro | 150,949 | |
| 7. Västerås | 150,564 | |
| 8. Helsingborg | 143,671 | |
| 9. Norrköping | 140,991 | |
| 10. Jönköping | 137,863 | |
Swedish language
| Language family: | Indo-European |
| Germanic | |
| North Germanic | |
| East Scandinavian | |
| Total speakers: | 13.2 million |
| Native speakers: | 10 million |
North Germanic languages
| Language | Speakers | Subfamily | Official Status |
| 1. Swedish | 9,200,000 | East Scandinavia | Sweden, Finland |
| 2. Danish | 5,600,000 | East Scandinavia | Denmark, Faroe Islands |
| 3. Norwegian | 5,000,000 | West Scandinavian | Norway |
| 4. Icelandic | 358,000 | West Scandinavian | Iceland |
| 5. Faroese | 90,000 | West Scandinavian | Faroe Islands |
| 6. Elfdalian | 3,500 | West or East Scandinavian | |
| Total | 20,251,500 |
| Welcome | Välkommen / välkomna |
| Hello | Hej / hejsan |
| Good morning | God morgon |
| Good day | God dag |
| Good evening | God kväll |
| Good night | God natt |
| Long time no see | Det var länge sedan |
| How are you? | Hur mår du? |
| I’m fine | Jag mår bra |
| Ok | Okej |
| So so | Sådär |
| Not good | Dåligt / inte bra |
| Are you ok? | Är du ok? |
| Yes | Ja |
| No | Nej |
| Thank you | Tack |
| No problem | Inga problem |
| You’re welcome | Varsågod |
| Sorry | Förlåt |
| Excuse me | Ursäkta |
| Nice to meet you | Trävligt att träffas |
| My pleasure | Nöjet är mitt /med nöje |
| You too | Dig också / dig med |
| Congratulations | Grattis |
| Well done | Bra gjort |
| Take care | Ha det bra |
| Good luck! | Lycka till! |
| Goodbye | Hejdå / adjö |
| See you later | Vi ses (senare) |
| Please | Var så vänlig |
| Bon appetit | Smaklig måltid |
| Cheers | Skål |
| Happy Birthday | Grattis på födelsedagen |
| Happy New Year! | Gott nytt år |
| Happy Valentines day | Glad alla hjärtans dag |
| Merry Christmas! | God jul |
| What’s your name? | Vad heter du? |
| What’s your family name? | Vad är ditt efternamn? |
| My name is Sven | Mitt namn är Sven / Jag heter Sven |
| My family name is Larsson | Mitt efternamn är Larsson |
| You can call me Börje | Du kan kalla mig Börje |
| Who are you? | Vem är du? |
| Let me introduce myself | Låt mig presentera mig själv |
| I am Hans | Jag är Hans |
| How old are you? | Hur gammal är du? |
| I’m 28 years old | Jag är 28 (tjugoåtta) år gammal |
| Age | ålder |
| Year | ett år |
| First name | ett förnamn |
| Nickname | ett smeknamn |
| Family name | ett efternamn |
| Mr | Herr |
| Mrs | Fru |
| Miss | Fröken |
| Man | en man |
| Woman | en kvinna |
| Boy | en pojke |
| Girl | en flicka |
| To be called | att kallas |
| To call | att kalla |
| To introduce | att introducera / att presentera |
| 0 | noll |
| 1 | ett |
| 2 | två |
| 3 | tre |
| 4 | fyra |
| 5 | fem |
| 6 | sex |
| 7 | sju |
| 8 | åtta |
| 9 | nio |
| 10 | tio |
| 11 | elva |
| 12 | tolv |
| 13 | tretton |
| 14 | fjorton |
| 15 | femton |
| 16 | sexton |
| 17 | sjutton |
| 18 | arton / (aderton) |
| 19 | nitton |
| 20 | tjugo |
| 21 | tjugoett |
| 30 | trettio |
| 40 | fyrtio |
| 50 | femtio |
| 60 | sextio |
| 70 | sjuttio |
| 80 | åttio |
| 90 | nittio |
| 100 | etthundra |
| 1000 | tusen |
| 10,000 | tiotusen |
| 100,000 | hundratusen |
| 1 million | en miljon |
| 10 million | tio miljoner |
| 100 million | hundra miljoner |
| 1 billion | en miljard |
| 10 trillion | en biljon |
| To count | att räkna |
| Plus | plus |
| To divide | att dividera |
| To multiply | att multiplicera |
| Square root | en kvadratrot |
| Half | en halv / ett halvt |
| One third | en tredjedel |
| One fourth | en fjärdedel |
| One fifth | en femtedel |
| 1st | första |
| 2nd | andra |
| 3rd | tredje |
| 4th | fjärde |
| 5th | femte |
| 6th | sjätte |
| 7th | sjunde |
| 8th | åttonde |
| 9th | nionde |
| 10th | tionde |
| 11th | elfte |
| 12th | tolfte |
| 13th | trettonde |
| 14th | fjortonde |
| 15th | femtonde |
| 16th | sextonde |
| 17th | sjuttonde |
| 18th | artonde |
| 19th | nittonde |
| 20th | tjugonde |
| 21th | tjugoförsta |
| 30th | trettionde |
| 40th | fyrtionde |
| 50th | femtionde |
| 60th | sextionde |
| 70th | sjuttionde |
| 80th | åttionde |
| 90th | nittionde |
| 200 | tvåhundra |
| 300 | trehundra |
| 400 | fyrahundra |
| 500 | femhundra |
| 600 | sexhundra |
| 700 | sjuhundra |
| 800 | åttahundra |
| 900 | niohundra |
| 999 | niohundranittionio |
| Equals to (is) | är |
| Minus | minus |
| Divided by | dividerad med |
| Multiplied by | multiplicerad med |
| Squared | i kvadrat |
| Comma | ett kommatecken |
| Decimal number | ett decimaltal |
| Fractional numbers | ett bråktal |
| Period | en punkt |
What is your favorite color? Vilken är din favoritfärg
My favorite color is red Min favoritfärg är röd
Which one looks better - the light or the dark red? Vilken ser bättre ut ljusröd eller mörkröd?
The dark red looks better Den mörkröda ser bättre ut
Which colour are your eyes? Vilken färg är dina ögon?
My eyes are brown Mina ögon är bruna
| Black | svart |
| Grey | grå |
| White | vit |
| Brown | brun |
| Purple | lila |
| Violet | violett |
| Blue | blå |
| Green | grön |
| Yellow | gul |
| Red | röd |
| Orange | orange |
| Pink | rosa |
| Colorful | färgrik |
| Light | ljus |
| Light blue | ljusblå |
| Dark | mörk |
| Dark blue | mörkblå |
| Shade | en nyans |
| Tone | en färgton |
| How many days are there in a week? | Hur många dagar finns det på en vecka? |
| There are seven days in a week | Det finns sju dagar på en vecka |
| What day is it today? | Vilken dag är det idag? |
| Is it Monday or Tuesday now? | Är det måndag eller tisdag nu? |
| Today is Monday | Idag är det måndag |
| What day was it yesterday? | Vilken dag var det igår? |
| Yesterday was Sunday | Igår var det söndag |
| What are you doing on the weekend? | Vad gör du i helgen? |
| In the weekend I will sleep longer | Under helgen kommer jag att sova längre |
| Day | en dag |
| Week | en vecka |
| Weekend | en helg |
| Today | idag |
| Tomorrow | imorgon |
| Yesterday | igår |
| Monday | måndag |
| Tuesday | tisdag |
| Wednesday | onsdag |
| Thursday | torsdag |
| Friday | fredag |
| Saturday | lördag |
| Sunday | söndag |
| The day after tomorrow | övermorgon |
| The day before yesterday | förrgår |