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fat 16 calf1. The great kindness. A great" mind 20. A good father 21. The dear mother 22. A good brother 23. My 24 good father. My good mother. My tall brother.

16 fet. 17 kalf. 18 godhet f. 19 stor. 20. förstånd m. 21 far. 22 mor. 23 bror. 24 min.

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inna, is added to monosyllables or those syllables ending in a vowel which is dropped, as:

grefve, count grefvinna, countess
lejoninna, lioness;

lejon, lion

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ska, is added to those of two or more syllables ending in

a consonant.

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lilla bror,

Diminutives are formed in Swedish by:

lille, lilla, liten, litet, små

lilla far, dear father

dear brother

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lilla mor,

dear, little, as:

dear mother

liten flicka,

little girl

bror lilla,

flickebarn,

female child

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1 singer. 2 shepherdess. 3 when. 4 elfking. 5 to dance. 6 fiery

vaksam hynda. Den trofasta makan. prinsessan. Der går en liten flicka.

7 watchful. 8 faithful. 9 beautiful.

10 goes.

Den vackra Min lilla flicka.

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A faithful female friend'. A kind hostess3. The

pretty laundress1. A bad poetess. A great bear (f.). A rich heiress. The white hen. The cock-pigeon and the dove. Dear little papa. The little man is very conceited 10.

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1 vän or vänninna. 2 fryntlig. 3 värdinna. 4 tvätterska. 5 stor. 6 rik. 7 hvit. 8 höna. 9 mycket. 10 inbilsk.

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Declension of Substantives.

The Swedish Language has five declensions for the substantive, regulated by the termination of the nominative plural. The Nominative, Dative and Accusative of the substantives are all alike. The Genitive is formed by adding „s"; or with the definitive article ens or ets.

Words ending in s and x remain unchanged if they are with or without the indefinite article, as: en prins, a prince and of the prince; sax, scissors and of the scissors; but if they are with the definite article they form:

prinsen, the princesaxen, the scissors

The Plural of the 1st declension ends in or

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With the exception of substantives ending in a and most

of those ending in e, they are declined by adding the following terminations:

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All feminine substantives ending in a, except maka, the wife (2nd D.) belong to this declension.

Some few monosyllables ending in a consonant, whose termination was formerly in a, as:

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To this declension belong many masculine substantives

ending in e, ing, dom, omme.

Most words of this declension are masculine.
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fröken, Miss - dotter, daughter

jord,

earth

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själ,

gran,

soul
fir tree

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sol,

tall,

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3.

Substantives ending in e, drop it before ar, as:
gubbe, old man - Plur. gubb-ar.
Substantives ending in the toneless syllables ar, el,

en, er, drop the vowel in the Plural, as:

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afton, evening

morgon, morning

4. Substantives ending in fvel, drop the v in the Plu

ral, as:

gafvel, gable - Plur. gafl-ar.

Substantives ending in f, which is pronounced v,

add a v in the Plural, as:

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knif, knife Plur. knifv-ar.

6. moder, dotter, modify the vowel in o, as:

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