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Numbers up to 20:

CardinalOrdinal
0nollnollte
1ett or enförsta
2tvåandra
3tretredje
4fyrafjärde
5femfemte
6sexsjätte
7sjusjunde
8åttaåttonde
9nionionde
10tiotionde
11elvaelfte
12tolvtolfte
13trettontrettonde
14fjortonfjortonde
15femtonfemtonde
16sextonsextonde
17sjuttonsjuttonde
18artonartonde
19nittonnittonde
20tjugotjugonde

Note: Ett is neuter, en is uter; "the digit 1" is "siffran ett" in Swedish. Especially when counting, four is often pronounced as fyr. Nio and tio are commonly pronounced as nie, tie, respectively. Tjugo is usually spelled tjugi, and so on with the following multiples of ten (tretti instead of trettio, förti instead of fyrtio , etc.). Forty is never pronounced the way it is spelled (fyrtio), it becomes förti(o).


Multiples of 10:

SvenskaEnglish
tjugo (tjugonde)twenty
trettio (trettionde)thirty
fyrtio (and so on)forty
femtiofifty
sextiosixty
sjuttioseventy
åttioeighty
nittioninety
(ett)hundra (hundrade)one hundred
(ett)tusen (tusende)one thousand
en miljon (miljonte)one million
en miljard (miljarte)one billion
en biljon (biljonte)one trillion
en triljon (triljonte)one quintillion


Other numbers:

SvenskaEnglish
10 000tio tusenten thousand
100 000hundra tusena hundred thousand
10 000 000tio miljonerten million


Particularity in writting the date:

Svenska
1 842artonhundrafyrtiotvå
2 013tjugohundratretton (tvåtusentretton)


Note: To make numbers between these, you add a number 1-9 not in parenthesis, e.g. 55 is femtiofem, 73rd is sjuttiotredje, 20,000 is tjugotusen. However, tjugo is in this case commonly pronounced as tju, e.g. tjuåtta for 28. The -tio ending is commonly pronounced as -ti but not in the parenthesis case. Fyrtio is pronounced as förti and sometimes written as förtio. One commonly only say etthundra to distinguish it from e.g. tvåhundra. As you might have guessed, Swedish uses the same system for large numbers as e.g. the UK, not the system used in the US.

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