Swedish Word Order: Basics 

I know im 3 years late, but its never too late to say thank you for putting out these videos. They are really helpful and easy to understand!

i’m learning german right now and i was curious about swedish. this is oddly similar! just way more simple!

Thank you so much Adam, We really need more of these high quality sessions in Swedish language, and it's always very helpful when you compare with the other major languages even for grammar. Thanks again, my first real Swedish language teacher!!

Thank you very much man! Continue doing it! One day you'll get over ten thousand subscribers even more! I've been paying close attention to you since you started! Very clear and very useful! Thank you.

The explanation was really clear, thanks a lot!

Thank you! I keep wanting to get back to Swedish and I think this is a good place to start. Sentence structure and conjugation, after memorizing some basic words of course.

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we need more videos like this but anyway thank you for the time you sacrificed in it !!

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Very helpful video ....Easy to understand...explained very nicely

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Okay class, so today we will be learning about the word order in the swedish language, let's start. German Okay, that will be it for today, thanks for coming, see you next week

Perfect explanation

Should be noted that the sentence "Kommer inte katten?" and "Inte kommer katten?" (the former being more commonly used) are also recognised as correct, even though it technically is grammatically incorrect. This placement of this specific adverb is only used in this type of question, and only with the adverb "inte". As commented below the placement of the word "inte" can somewhat imply preconceptions. To translate this to english it could be something like 1: Inte har du gjort läxan?/Surely, you haven't done your homework?; 2: Har inte du gjort läxan?/Haven't you done your homework?; 3: Har du inte gjort läxan(!)?/You haven't done your homework(!)?;

Can you make a similar video about word order in subordinate clauses? That's a thing where I keep struggling... Tack på förhand, grymma videor! :)

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Amazing !!!

Very helpful! Thank you very much for your videos! May I ask how long did it take you to master Swedish so fluently? Your pronunciation is so perfect that I started wondering whether you weren't actually Swedish :)

Jag skulle dock att ibland låter det konstigare att sätta "inte" efter. Tycker det känns lättare att säga "vill inte katten äta?" än "vill katten inte äta?"

I must object to negating phrases word order. "Varför vill katten inte äta?" is correct Swedish, but so is "Varför vill inte katten äta?". Both works just as fine.

Thanks for the videos. Greatly help to understand the v2 rule. But why does some sentence like this interchange the verb & subject - då kan du öva med engelska med linda. - det förstår jag inte. Can you explain it. Tack

I think I read that Swedish gained its current verb order system in the 17th century.

So the V2 rule is.. if there are two verbs in a clause and V1 is modifying V2, V2 becomes the active infinitiv and occurs after the subject-verb or verb-subject unit?

I missed the negation by putting a o- in front of the words and is the Swedish equivalent to English "un-" or "im-". You found them in words such "oväder" (bad weather), orolig (anxious, not calm), otur (unluck), orättvist (unfair), otålig (impatient) etc. In certain dialects they make heavy use of this and put o- in front of just about any word to say the opposite. So you can hear sentences like "Det var obra" (that was not good) or "Det har okommit" (it has not arrived) which sounds wrong/weird/funny with standard Swedish in mind.

When we use a "modifying verb" (auxiliary verbs) such as "vill", the other verb (main verb) will be pushed back, yes, but will it ALWAYS (your emphasis) be infinitive? Perhaps you don't consider the auxiliaries "har" and "hade" to be "modifying verbs"? Anyway, they are ALWAYS followed by the supine, aren't they? "Katten har ätit".

Ah, this explains why I failed Swedish class. I could swear it's "Varför sjunger inte skogen?" instead of having "inte" at the end. I always put the negative after the verb. Just sounds right to me.

Are there any special rules when it comes to placing for example time? In dutch, place comes always last and time is after the verb. Does this occur in swedish?

Som svensk själv märker jag att jag gärna lägger in ”inte” mitt i verb-subjekt-blocket. Exempelvis ”Varför sjunger inte skogen?” eller ”Kommer inte natten?”. Är detta då tekniskt sett grammatisk fel? För känns naturligt för mig o nog även många jag känner

In a Swedish question, does the intonation go up at the end?

"kommer inte katten?" but what about "inte kommer katten?" Its fairly common to say it like that but is it correct to do so?

Varför sjunger inte skogen????

Thanks for many great videos! However: "När sover hunden inte?" - sounds wrong in my native (non language scholared) ears. Shouldn't it be "När sover inte hunden?" När regnar det inte ute? not: När regnar det ute inte? När tittar ni inte på tv? not När tittar ni på tv inte?

This way of treating Swedish word order is a bit outdated, and also a bit incomplete. In fact, all Swedish main clauses have the same word order, regrdless of whether they are statements or any kind of questions.

Why swedish is so hard?

Kalla inte predikaten för verb, snälla du.