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Swedish Pronouns Posted by on Jul 19, 2010

 Singular and Plural  1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd person  Grundform or Personal Pronouns  Object forms  Possessive  Reflexive  Reflexive possessive  singular:  1 person  jag  mig  min  (verb) + mig  min    2 person  du  dig  din  (verb) + dig  din    3 person  han, hon  honom, henne  hans, hennes  (verb) + sig  sin    3…

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Anybody’s “man” – another personal pronoun Posted by on Sep 2, 2009

Since we were talking about personal pronouns the other day, and as I see, it has provoked some very interesting comments, I thought it would be a good idea to continue on the subject. “What? There are even more pronouns in Swedish?” I hear you say. Well, not that many more. Actually, just one more…

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Dem Pesky Personal Pronouns Posted by on Aug 26, 2009

The other day I got an email asking me to clarify which form of the third person plural personal pronoun (that would be the Swedish equivalent of “they” in English) was correct. The question, of course, was about “de” and “dom”. Hmmm… it’s an interesting question. Both of those words are pronounced the same –…

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