Swedish, Närpes

Facts

  • Language: Swedish, Närpes
  • Alternate names:
  • Language code: dswen
  • Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, North Germanic, North Scandinavian, East-Central Swedic, East Swedic
  • Dialect of: Swedish
  • Number of speakers:
  • Script: Latin script

More information:

    Introduction

    Närpes Swedish is linguistic variety of Standard Swedish language. It is spoken in Närpes municipality and its surroundings in Finland.

    The verb

    The verb is inflected in the same tenses as standard Swedish. Also the verbs follow the same conjugation classes and the division in regular and irregular verbs.

    The inflections, however, differ a lot of from standard Swedish.

    Sample verb

    Regular verbs

    Infinitive Present Past Imperative Supine
    kall´ to call kallar kalla kalla! kalla
    lés to read lés leste lés! lest
    bygg to build bygger bygde bygg! bygd

    Irregular verbs

    Infinitive Present Past Imperative Supine
    jét to eat jeter åt jét! jiti
    bít to bite biter beit bít! biti
    vá to be jer / je va jer! / je! vuri / vyri
    vál to become vál vutt vál! váli

    Paralleltexts

    References