If you're trying to learn Swedish Feminine you will find some useful resources including a course about genders: Feminine and Masculine... to help you with your Swedish grammar. Try to concentrate on the lesson and notice the pattern that occurs each time the word changes its place. Also don't forget to check the rest of our other lessons listed on Learn Swedish. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!
Learning the Swedish Feminine displayed below is vital to the language. Swedish feminine refers to female qualities attributed specifically to women and girls or things considered feminine. The complement to feminine is masculine. Here are some examples:
| English Feminine | Swedish Feminine |
|---|---|
| Feminine | Feminina |
| he is happy | han är lycklig |
| she is happy | hon är lycklig |
| he is American | han är amerikan |
| she is American | hon är amerikan |
| man | man |
| woman | kvinna |
| father | far |
| mother | mor |
| brother | bror |
| sister | syster |
| uncle | farbror/morbror |
| aunt | faster/moster |
| bull | tjur |
| cow | ko |
| boy | pojke |
| girl | flicka |
Notice the structure of the Feminine in Swedish.
Below is a list of objects, can you determine whether they're feminine, masculine or plural in Swedish? Memorizing this table will also help you add very useful and important words to your Swedish vocabulary.
| English Vocabulary | Swedish Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| objects | föremål |
| bathroom | badrum |
| bed | säng |
| bedroom | sovrum |
| ceiling | innertak |
| chair | stol |
| clothes | kläder |
| coat | rock/kappa |
| cup | kopp |
| desk | skrivbord |
| dress | klänning |
| floor | golv |
| fork | gaffel |
| furniture | möbler |
| glass | glas |
| hat | hatt |
| house | hus |
| ink | bläck |
| jacket | jacka |
| kitchen | kök |
| knife | kniv |
| lamp | lampa |
| letter | brev |
| map | karta |
| newspaper | tidning |
| notebook | anteckningsbok |
| pants | byxor |
| paper | papper |
| pen | penna |
| pencil | blyertspenna |
| pharmacy | apotek |
| picture | bild |
| plate | tallrik |
| refrigerator | kylskåp |
| restaurant | restaurang |
| roof | tak |
| room | rum |
| rug | matta |
| scissors | sax |
| shampoo | schampo |
| shirt | skjorta/tröja |
| shoes | skor |
| soap | tvål |
| socks | strumpor |
| spoon | sked |
| table | bord |
| toilet | toalett |
| toothbrush | tandborste |
| toothpaste | tandkräm |
| towel | handduk |
| umbrella | paraply |
| underwear | underkläder |
| wall | vägg |
| wallet | plånbok |
| window | fönster |
| telephone | telefon |
Feminine and Masculine have a very important role in Swedish. Once you're done with Swedish Feminine, you might want to check the rest of our Swedish lessons here: Learn Swedish. Don't forget to bookmark this page.
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