Swedish, Fasternamål

Facts

  • Language: Swedish, Fasternamål
  • Alternate names:
  • Language code: dswef
  • 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

    Fasternamål is a Swedish vernacular? spoken in the former Fasterna municipality and its surroundings in Sweden. The language cited here is refers to the language spoken in the end of the 19th century.

    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.

    Sample verbs

    Conjugation1st weak1st strong
    Infinitivesòpa (to sweep))bìta (to bite)vàra (to be)
    Supinesòpabìtevàre / vùre
    Past Participlesòpadæbìtinvàrin / vùrin
    Indicative Presentsòparbítərær / e / ə / æ
    Indicative Pastsòpabeetvaor / vao / va
    Imperativesòpa!bit!?