Basic Swedish

Basic Swedish. A Grammar and Workbook combines an accessible basic reference grammar and related exercises in one volume, and covers most of the topics that students might expect to deal with in their first year of learning Swedish.

Informationen zum Autor Dr Ian Hinchliffe is a translator based in Sweden and has previously taught Swedish at universities in the UK, as well as in Norway. Dr Philip Holmes was Reader Emeritus in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Hull and a translator and language editor up to his death in 2019. Klappentext Basic Swedish: A Grammar and Workbook combines an accessible basic reference grammar and related exercises in one volume, and covers most of the topics that students might expect to deal with in their first year of learning Swedish.Each of the 25 units discusses one or more grammar topics, with examples that are subsequently practised in the exercises that follow.The book introduces the contemporary language against a backdrop of Swedish culture, society, geography, customs and history. Each unit ends with a cultural text that outlines an aspect of Swedish culture and exemplifies and consolidates the grammar topic examined in the unit.Features include:clear grammatical explanations with examples in Swedish and Englishvocabulary based on a major corpus of written Swedish in order to guarantee authenticity and relevancecross-references to other unitsover 100 exercises with a key to all the correct answersfull vocabulary list at the end of the book.The book is suitable both for independent study and for class use. It can be used by absolute beginners and those who have advanced a little further. Zusammenfassung Basic Swedish. A Grammar and Workbook combines an accessible basic reference grammar and related exercises in one volume, and covers most of the topics that students might expect to deal with in their first year of learning Swedish. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface - 1 What makes Swedish familiar? and a few challenges - 2 Pronunciation - 3 Nouns gender - 4 Introduction to verbs (present tense) and personal pronouns - 5 Word order statements and questions - 6 Nouns s -genitives and plurals - 7 Numerals, time expressions, days and months - 8 Word order position of elements in the main clause - 9 Pronouns personal, possessive and indefinite - 10 Demonstrative pronouns - 11 Verbs infinitives; two-verb constructions; future forms; imperatives - 12 Word order short answers; postponing the subject - 13 Adjectives indefinite forms and indeclinable adjectives- 14 Nouns forms of articles and article use - 15 Prepositions of place på/i, vid, hos , etc. - 16 Adjectives definite forms Types I and II - 17 Comparison of adjectives - 18 Word order the main and subordinate clause; conjunctions; 'that' - 19 Verb conjugations I, II, III past and perfect tenses - 20 Verb conjugation IV past and perfect tenses - 21 Adverbs and adjectives; form and comparison of adverbs - 22 Adverbs location and direction - 23 Word order main and subordinate clauses; position of the clausal adverbial; relative clauses - 24 Verbs the s form, deponents and s passives - 25 Word formation introduction - Key to exercises - Glossary of grammatical terms - Vocabulary list ...

Autorentext

Dr Ian Hinchliffe is a translator based in Sweden and has previously taught Swedish at universities in the UK, as well as in Norway.

Dr Philip Holmes was Reader Emeritus in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Hull and a translator and language editor up to his death in 2019.

Zusammenfassung

Basic Swedish: A Grammar and Workbook combines an accessible basic reference grammar and related exercises in one volume, and covers most of the topics that students might expect to deal with in their first year of learning Swedish.

Each of the 25 units discusses one or more grammar topics, with examples that are subsequently practised in the exercises that follow.

The book introduces the contemporary language against a backdrop of Swedish culture, society, geography, customs and history. Each unit ends with a cultural text that outlines an aspect of Swedish culture and exemplifies and consolidates the grammar topic examined in the unit.

Features include:

• clear grammatical explanations with examples in Swedish and English

• vocabulary based on a major corpus of written Swedish in order to guarantee authenticity and relevance

• cross-references to other units

• over 100 exercises with a key to all the correct answers

• full vocabulary list at the end of the book. The book is suitable both for independent study and for class use. It can be used by absolute beginners and those who have advanced a little further.

  Inhalt

Preface - 1 What makes Swedish familiar? and a few challenges - 2 Pronunciation - 3 Nouns gender - 4 Introduction to verbs (present tense) and personal pronouns - 5 Word order statements and questions - 6 Nouns s-genitives and plurals - 7 Numerals, time expressions, days and months - 8 Word order position of elements in the main clause - 9 Pronouns personal, possessive and indefinite - 10 Demonstrative pronouns - 11 Verbs infinitives; two-verb constructions; future forms; imperatives - 12 Word order short answers; postponing the subject - 13 Adjectives indefinite forms and indeclinable adjectives- 14 Nouns forms of articles and article use - 15 Prepositions of place på/i, vid, hos, etc. - 16 Adjectives definite forms Types I and II - 17 Comparison of adjectives - 18 Word order the main and subordinate clause; conjunctions; 'that' - 19 Verb conjugations I, II, III past and perfect tenses - 20 Verb conjugation IV past and perfect tenses - 21 Adverbs and adjectives; form and comparison of adverbs - 22 Adverbs location and direction - 23 Word order main and subordinate clauses;
position of the clausal adverbial; relative clauses - 24 Verbs thes form, deponents and s passives - 25 Word formation introduction - Key to exercises - Glossary of grammatical terms - Vocabulary list