Swedish

American  

[swee-dish] / ˈswi dɪʃ /

adjective

1. of or relating to Sweden, its inhabitants, or their language.

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noun

1. the people of Sweden collectively.

2. a Germanic language, the language of Sweden and parts of Finland, closely related to Danish and Norwegian. Sw

Swedish British  

/ ˈswiːdɪʃ /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Sweden, its people, or their language

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noun

1. the official language of Sweden, belonging to the North Germanic branch of the Indo-European family: one of the two official languages of Finland

2. (functioning as plural) the people of Sweden collectively

Other Word Forms

• anti-Swedish adjective
• non-Swedish adjective
• pro-Swedish adjective
• pseudo-Swedish adjective

Etymology

Origin of Swedish

Swede + -ish ¹

Example Sentences

She made the ferry journey over to England with a fellow Dutch breeder friend and seven pooches between them -- three of them Swedish Vallhunds and four other hounds.

From Barron's

The workers the Swedish papers spoke to were data annotators, teaching Meta's AI to interpret images by manually labelling content.

From BBC

Lower truck sales combined with additional costs associated with U.S. tariffs, the appreciation of the Swedish krona and expenditure on a new plant in China all dragged on the result, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal

It made a stopover in the Swedish port of Malmo last week.

From Barron's

The 18-year-old, who has a Swedish father and a mother of Indian descent, entered the record books last year when he became the youngest winner in Formula 2 history, aged 17 years and 243 days.

From BBC