Wiktionary:About Swedish


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This page is intended to give guidelines for creating Swedish entries on English Wiktionary as well as on adding Swedish translations to English words.

The main guidelines for creating any entry on English Wiktionary are set forth in Entry layout; this page is an addition to that page, not a replacement.

Basic article
Here is a typical definition, of the noun :

Noun

 * 1) squirrel

Declension
The level 3 header is the part of speech (Noun, Verb, Adjective, etc.). On a page for a lemma form a standard template follows. The lemma of a noun is the singular indefinite. Nouns use sv-noun with the gender as first argument. See Swedish_headword-line_templates and Category:Swedish headword-line templates for the complete list for all parts of speech. On non-lemma pages and in special cases use head. For example, is a noun but not a lemma form. The head line is generated by sv.

When included, noun declensions should be generated by one of the templates in Category:Swedish noun inflection-table templates. For example, ekorre is a noun of common gender forming its plural with so it uses sv-infl-noun-c-ar (which can be read as Swedish-inflection of-noun-common gender-plural in ar). The  templates are used when singular and plural indefinite are identical.

Here is another definition, of the verb :

Verb

 * 1) to withdraw, to retreat, to retire

Conjugation
Use sv-verb-reg for regular verbs. To suppress conjugation use sv-verb; this is useful for a phrasal verb where the verb is not at the end of a phrase.

The template sv-conj-wk is used for weak verbs (most verbs). In this case  means there is no passive form and   means there is no past participle. See for an example of a strong verb; it will be necessary to provide more information.

Categorization
See Category:Swedish language for available categories.

Topic categories
Apart from categorising by part of speech, it is also desirable to categorize entries by topic. This is often done by preceding the definition with

Etymology
There are several sources for Swedish etymological information that can be used: Gibson, Hellquist, Kotsinas, NEO, Rietz, SAOB.

Grammar

 * Appendix:Swedish adjectives
 * Appendix:Swedish adverbs
 * Appendix:Swedish prepositions
 * Appendix:Swedish pronouns
 * Appendix:Swedish verbs - Appendix:Swedish phrasal verbs
 * Appendix:Swedish numerals

Swedish words that are derived from proper names tend towards lower case, as the words become more commonplace. This is the case for all nationals and residents of places (e.g., , ), but also e.g. , ,. Nouns that are still strongly associated with a person are capitalized, e.g.,. Many of them are written separately, e.g., ,. Border cases are Fouriertransform/fouriertransform. See also Wikipedia's article on versalisering and Mikael Reuter's column "Äta falukorv under Sverigebesöket".

Templates

 * Swedish entry templates
 * Swedish headword-line templates

Some adjectives have comparative and superlative forms, others don't. Some nouns have plural forms, others don't. Some verbs have passive forms, others don't. If you are not sure, reduce the listed forms by using rather than,  rather than , and set the parameters. If you know there are more forms, change the templates to include more forms, but also provide example sentences, or better yet, quotations, to indicate that these forms really exist. See the example sentence for the past participle vederbord in, for the passive undkoms in , and for the superlative egnast in.

Form entries
Swedish words have many forms (plural, genitive, past tense, ...). To create a useful dictionary with minimal duplication of effort, make only very short referral entries for the inflected forms (using the sv-...-form- templates) and concentrate the useful information to the main entry. For verbs with dual forms (/, /, /, /, /) let the shorter form be the main entry, providing conjugation patterns for both forms, and make only short referral entries for longer basic forms. This also goes for their compounds (e.g. /).

Obsolete spelling and grammar
Swedish orthography was first standardized in 1801, reformed in 1889 and again in 1906. For example, the word river was spelled (1801),  (1889) and  (1906), as in "Göta älv", the river between lake Vänern än Göteborg. The reforms were introduced in SAOL 6th ed. (1889) and 8th ed. (1923). Of larger online texts, the 1st edition of the encyclopedia Nordisk familjebok (20 volumes, 1876-1899) uses the 1801 spelling, e.g. Göta elf, while the 2nd edition (38 volumes 1904-1926) uses the 1889 spelling, e.g. Göta älf.

Archaic plural verb forms
In addition, plural forms of verbs (I am, we are) were gradually abolished in writing during the years 1944-1970. Although they are generally understood, they are seen as archaic, and sometimes confused with the singular, leading to constructions such as "jag äro" (I are). Plural present tense verbs generally coincide with the infinitive (vi, ni , de ), the exception being. Plural past tense verbs are unique and thus obsolete (vi, ni , de ). Separate forms for 1st and 2nd person plural were obsolete already in the mid-late 19th century ( oss, ), but were still used in some places in the 1917 Bible translation (låtom oss höja glädjerop, varen icke förskräckta).

Wiktionary entries for obsolete spelling should have, instead of a definition, the template For the definition of plural verb forms, e.g., use the verb form template with an additional parameter:.

Translating English entries
Swedish translations are added to existing English entries in this format: * Swedish:  If more words are needed, they are separated by commas. The  and   part is for stating the gender of the word; c for common gender ("den"-words), and n for neuter gender ("det"-words).

The translation line should be added to the translation section of the English entry, placed in alphabetical order of the language name.

Checking existing translations
Due to reformatting of entries, existing translations will sometimes be marked as requiring verification. This is usually due to addition of new definitions, and verification is then needed to state whether or nor the existing translation is suited for the new definition. Mostly such additions are observed after the fact, and it is then necessary to mark all existing translation with the template.

Such translations needing verification are found in Category:Requests for review of Swedish translations. To verify a Swedish translation, the template needs to be removed from the line, and the word reinserted into the appropriate translation tables in the main section of. E.g.  needs to be added to the appropriate section in the form