Basic Swedish: A Grammar and Workbook

ISBN-13: 9781138779570 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 184 str.

UK) Holmes Philip (Freelance translator

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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