Talk:Swedish/Vocabulary

(W)
(heading inserted by Rursus (talk) 13:28, 19 March 2009 (UTC))

There are no swedish words beginning with the letter "W", actually it is not used in swedish at all. It is only in names for persons an older place-names you can find it. It should not be in the list. // Solkoll 18:21, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * It shouldn't. In a Swedish telephone catalogue list, the name of the V entry "V, W" could be used, since personal names can be spelled to contain W, but never in dictionaries, nor name lists of places in Sweden. The entry should be "V" only. Rursus (talk) 13:28, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Nice list...
...but it lacks two fundamental things: conjugations and genders.

The list is just telling that "apple" is äpple but it doesn't tell that it's ett äpple and that it is conjugated as ett äpple, äpplet, äpplen, äpplena. If you're ever going to get people to understand Swedish, you have to teach them how to conjugate all the verbs, nouns and adjectives. Conjugating is not a hard thing to grasp even for a beginner.

Just some advice from a passer-by, I hope someone listens to me. --84.239.157.217 10:52, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Statisticallity?
Now, are there any principles for choosing words for the vocabulary? Or, have you ever considered asking:
 * Have you seen any berserkers around lately?

And other things: Rursus (talk) 13:41, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * since verbs are weak and strong, the three standard forms, infinitive, preterite and supinum should be listed, such as skriva, skrev, skrivit, or hitta, -de, -t.
 * all entries should be lowercase, Sw. don't use the standard of setting the first letter of nouns uppercase.


 * Most entries should be lowercase, in particular anything but geographical names and other names. Swedish don't use initial capital for the name of a people, so that Swedes = svenskar, nor languages, so that Swedish = svenska. Rursus (talk) 14:22, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Wiktionary?
The german vocabulary is much better structured regarding tutoring purposes. A straight vocabulary like this one, could better reside on Wiktionary. I propose reworking this vocabulary to look like the German one. Rursus (talk) 14:32, 19 March 2009 (UTC)