Swedish Prepositions

Swedish Prepositions

Learning the Swedish Prepositions is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you practice the subject, the closer you get to mastering the Swedish language. But first we need to know what the role of Prepositions is in the structure of the grammar in Swedish.

Swedish prepositions link nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition. Here are some examples:

English Prepositions	Swedish Prepositions
Prepositions	Prepositioner
inside the house	inne i huset
outside the car	utanför bilen
with me	med mig
without him	utan honom
under the table	under bordet
after tomorrow	i övermorgon
before sunset	före solnedgången
but I'm busy	men jag är upptagen

As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Prepositions in Swedish has a logical pattern. Locate the Prepositions above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Swedish.

List of Prepositions in Swedish

Below is a list of the Time place and demonstrative pronouns in Swedish placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Swedish vocabulary.

  

English Prepositions	Swedish Prepositions
about	om
above	ovanför
across	tvärsöver
after	efter
against	mot
among	bland
around	runt
as	som
at	på/vid
before	före
behind	bakom
below	nedan
beneath	under
beside	bredvid
between	mellan
beyond	bortom
but	men
by	av
despite	trots
down	ner
during	under
except	förutom
for	för
from	från
in	i
inside	inuti
into	in i
near	nära
next	nästa
of	av
on	på
opposite	mittemot
out	ut
outside	utanför
over	över
per	per
plus	plus
round	runt
since	sedan
than	än
through	genom
till	tills
to	till
toward	mot
under	under
unlike	olik
until	tills
up	upp
via	via
with	med
within	inom
without	utan
two words	två ord
according to	enligt
because of	på grund av
close to	nära
due to	på grund av
except for	med undantag för
far from	långt från
inside of	inuti
instead of	i stället för
near to	nära
next to	bredvid
outside of	utanför
prior to	före
three words	tre ord
as far as	så vitt
as well as	dessutom
in addition to	utöver
in front of	framför
in spite of	trots
on behalf of	på någons vägnar
on top of	ovanpå
demonstrative pronouns	demonstrativa prepositioner
this	denna/detta
that	den/det
these	dessa
those	de där