Early Contemporary Swedish

Facts

  • Language: Early Contemporary Swedish
  • Alternate names: Nusvenska, Äldre nusvenska
  • Language code: dswee
  • 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: Extinct
  • Script: Latin script

More information:

    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 Swedish800-1225
    Early Old Swedish?1225-1375
    Late Old Swedish?1375-1526
    Early Modern Swedish?1526-1750
    Late Modern Swedish?1750-1880
    Early Contemporary Swedish1880-
    Contemporary Swedish1950-

    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.)

    More Verbs

    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

    References