How to form the plural in Swedish

How to form the plural in Swedish

You want to learn how to use the plural in Swedish? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Swedish lessons complete with useful examples. Apples, houses, books... we'll teach you everything you need to know about the plural in Swedish.

Swedish nouns - plural

The plural is used, in general, to talk about more than one object. Examples in English would be 'dogs', 'cats', 'houses' and 'children'. The are several ways to form the plural in Swedish. The most common way to form the plural is to add '-r' to the end of the word. Other common ways to form the plural are to add '-er' or '-ar' to the end of the word.

Examples

hus
houses
flickor
girls
kvinnor
women
böcker
books
barn
children
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The plural is important in Swedish when you need to talk about more than one thing. Using the nouns bok, stol and dörr (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn the plural of each of these words by heart. The plural forms are böcker, stolar and dörrar. Now learn how to use each of these Swedish plural nouns with the definite article. The nouns together with the definite article are böckerna, stolarna and dörrarna (the books, the chairs, the doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about the Swedish plural including useful examples. After you've learned the plural of bok, stol and dörr, you can move on to Step 6 (Swedish demonstrative pronouns).

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