Early Contemporary Swedish
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Fact corner
- Language: Early Contemporary Swedish
- Alternate names: Nusvenska, Äldre nusvenska
- SIL-code: -
- Language family: Indo-European, Germanic, North, East Scandinavian, Danish-Swedish, Swedish
- Number of speakers: Extinct
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
Early Contemporary Swedish differed from the Swedish spoken today in the way that verbs agreed in number. Compared with Late Modern Swedish there were no more inflection for person in plural forms.
Swedish language periods
| Runic Swedish | 800-1225 |
| Early Old Swedish | 1225-1375 |
| Late Old Swedish | 1375-1526 |
| Early Modern Swedish | 1526-1750 |
| Late Modern Swedish | 1750-1880 |
| Early Contemporary Swedish | 1880- |
| Contemporary Swedish | 1950- |
The Verb
The infinitive forms of Swedish verbs end in a vowel, which in almost all cases is the letter a.
Verbs are conjugated according to tense and number.
Sample weak verb: kalla
In weak verbs the number is distinguished in present only.
| Number | Present | Past |
| Singular | kallar | kallade |
| Plural | kalla |
(Compare these verb forms with corresponding conjugations in today's Swedish.)
Click verbs to conjugate them in the table above!
Sample strong verb: skriva
In strong verbs the number is distinguished both in present and past.
| Number | Present | Past |
| Singular | skriver | skrev |
| Plural | skriva | skrevo |
Click verbs to conjugate them in the table above!
References
- Barðal, Jóhanna et al.. Nordiska. Våra språk förr och nu.
10 edition. Lund. 2001.