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sweden
English
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Etymology
en :bor sco:Swethin sco:Swadne<ety:from<sco:Swaden>> 1
en sco Swethin, sco Swadne (also sco Swaden), from en dum Sweden, dative of dum Swede. Originally used to refer to the people before the late 1600s, later displaced native ang Swēoland Swede land, ang Swēoþēod Swede nation, and ang Swēorīċe Swede kingdom to refer to the country.n 195631 December 2020; n
Pronunciation
en /ˈswiː.dən/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Sweden.wav UK
en /ˈswi.dən/ US
en en-us-Sweden.ogg US
en iːdən 2
Proper noun
en Q34en country r/Scandinavia in r/Northern Europe Kingdom of Sweden Stockholm.
en People often mix up Sweden and Switzerland.
Elisabeth Buchwald Trump says Scott Bessent no longer in the running for Fed chair https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/business/scott-bessent-fed-chair 2025-08-05 Bessent has also been spearheading trade negotiations. Last week he traveled to Sweden to meet with Chinese trade officials to discuss extending the current tariff rates in place on both countries’ goods. This comes as there’s a looming August 12 deadline for the two sides to extend rates or face higher tariffs. https://web.archive.org/web/20250825164923/https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/business/scott-bessent-fed-chair
en place c/USA, including:
en town co/Monroe County s/New York.
Derived terms
en Swexit Silicon Valley of Sweden Swede Sweden and Norway Swedish Swedengate
Descendants
1 bn সুইডেন
1 yue 瑞典
1 cmn 瑞典
1 hak 瑞典 Shuì-tién
1 ko ^서전
1 vi Thụy Điển
1 kw Sweden
1 hi स्वीडन
1 nan-hbl 瑞典 Sūi-tián
1 cmn 瑞典
1 ja - ^スウェーデン
1 ko ^스웨덴
1 mr स्वीडन
1 te స్వీడన్
1 cy Sweden
Translations
Q34 Scandinavian country
Abkhaz: ab Швециа
Acehnese: ace Swèdia
Afrikaans: af Swede
Albanian: sq Suedi f indefinite, sq Suedia f definite
Amharic: am ስዊድን
Arabic: ar السُّوَيْد f definite
Hijazi Arabic: acw السويد f m as-suwēd definite
Aragonese: an Suecia f
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܫܘܲܝܕܝܼܵܐ šwaydia f formal, aii ܣܘܲܝܕ swayd vernacular
Armenian: hy Շվեդիա
Aromanian: rup Suidii f indefinite, rup Suidia f definite
Assamese: as ছুইডেন
Asturian: ast Suecia f
Azerbaijani: az İsveç
Bambara: bm Swedi
Bashkir: ba Швеция
Basque: eu Suedia
Belarusian: be Шве́цыя f, be Швэ́цыя f Taraškievica
Bengali: bn সুইডেন
Bikol:
Central Bikol: bcl Suesya
Bislama: bi Sweden
Breton: br Sveden
Bulgarian: bg Шве́ция f
Burmese: my ဆွီဒင်
Buryat: bua Швеци
Carpathian Rusyn: rue Швеція f
Catalan: ca Suècia f
Cebuano: ceb Sweden
Chechen: ce Швеци
Cherokee: chr ᏍᏫᏕᏂ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 瑞典
Eastern Min: cdo 瑞典
Hakka: hak 瑞典 Shuì-tién
Hokkien: nan-hbl 瑞典 Sūi-tián
Mandarin: cmn 瑞典
Wu: wuu 瑞典
Chuvash: cv Швеци
Circassian:
East Circassian: kbd Шуэц
Cornish: kw Swedherwyk, kw Sweden m
Corsican: co Svezia f
Crimean Tatar: crh İsveç
Czech: cs Švédsko n
Danish: da Sverige
Dhivehi: dv ސުވިޑެން
Dutch: nl Zweden n
Dzongkha: dz སུའི་ཌན
Elfdalian: ovd Swerre
Erzya: myv Швеция Мастор
Esperanto: eo Svedio, eo Svedujo, eo Svedlando
Estonian: et Rootsi
Ewe: ee Sweden
Extremaduran: ext Suécia
Farefare: gur Suedgo
Faroese: fo Svøríki n
Fiji Hindi: hif Sweden
Finnish: fi Ruotsi
French: fr Suède f
Frisian:
North Frisian: frr Swärik
Saterland Frisian: stq Sweden
West Frisian: fy Sweden n
Friulian: fur Svezie
Gagauz: gag Şveţiya
Galician: gl Suecia f
Georgian: ka შვედეთი
German: de Schweden n
Alemannic German: gsw Schweden n
Bavarian: bar Schwen, bar Schwedn
Greek: el Σουηδία f
Pontic Greek: pnt Σουηδία
Greenlandic: kl Sverige, kl Svenskit Nunaat
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: gug Suesia, gug Suésia
Gujarati: gu સ્વિડન
Haitian Creole: ht Syèd
Hausa: ha Suwedan
Hawaiian: haw Kuekene
Hebrew: he שוודיה f shvédya שְׁוֶדְיָה
Hindi: hi स्वीडन m
Hungarian: hu Svédország
Icelandic: is Svíþjóð f
Ido: io Suedia
Ilocano: ilo Sweden
Indonesian: id Swedia
Interlingua: ia Svedia
Inuktitut: iu ᔅᕗᕆᑭ, iu Svuriki
Irish: ga Sualainn f An tSualainn
Italian: it Svezia f
Japanese: ja スウェーデン Suwēden, ja 瑞典 スウェーデン, Suwēden
Javanese: jv Swèdhen, jv Swédia
Kalmyk: xal Сведин Нутг
Kannada: kn ಸ್ವೀಡನ್
Kapampangan: pam Sweden
Karachay-Balkar: krc Швеция
Karakalpak: kaa Shvetsiya
Kashubian: csb Szwedzkô f
Kazakh: kk Швеция
Khmer: km ស៊ុយអែត
Komi:
Komi-Permyak: koi Шведму
Komi-Zyrian: kpv Швеция
Kongo: kg Suedi
Konkani: kok स्विडन
Korean: ko ^스웨덴, ko ^스웨리예 North Korea, ko ^서전(瑞典) archaic
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb سوید
Central Kurdish: ckb سوید
Northern Kurdish: kmr Swêd
Kven: fkv Ruottii
Kyrgyz: ky Швеция
Ladino: lad Suesia
Lao: lo ຊູແອດ, lo ສະວີເດັນ
Latgalian: ltg Švedeja f
Latin: la Suēcia f New Latin, la Svēcia f, la Suētia f
Latvian: lv Zviedrija f
Ligurian: lij Sveçia
Limburgish: li Zwaede
Lingala: ln Swédi
Lithuanian: lt Švedija f
Livonian: liv Rūotšmō
Lombard: lmo Svezia f
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: nds-nl Sveden
German Low German: nds-de Sweden n
Luganda: lg Swiiden
Luxembourgish: lb Schweden n
Macedonian: mk Шведска f
Malagasy: mg Soeda
Malay: ms Sweden
Malayalam: ml സ്വീഡന്
Maltese: mt Żvezja f, mt Żvezja f L-Iżvezja definite
Manchu: mnc ᠰᡳᡶᡳᠶ᠋ᡝᠰᠺᠣ
Manx: gv Soolyn f Y Toolyn
Māori: mi Wīreni, mi Huītene
Marathi: mr स्वीडन
Mari:
Eastern Mari: mhr Швеций
Mazanderani: mzn سوئد
Meänkieli: fit Ruotti
Moksha: mdf Шведмастор
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Швед
Mongolian script: mn ᠱᠸᠧᠳ᠋
Nahuatl: nah Suecatlān
Nauruan: na Sweden, na Widen
Neapolitan: nap Sguezia
Nepali: ne स्वीडेन
Newar: new स्वीडेन
Norman: nrf Suède f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Sverige n
Nynorsk: nn Sverige n
Occitan: oc Suècia f
Odia: or ସ୍ୱିଡେନ
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: cu Свеньско n modern
Old English: ang Swēoland n, ang Swēorīċe n, ang Swēoþēod f
Ossetian: os Швеци
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Шведска f
Papiamentu: pap Suecia
Pashto: ps سويډن m swiḍán
Pennsylvania German: pdc Schweden n
Persian:
Dari: prs سْوِیدَن, prs سُوِیدَن
Iranian Persian: fa-ira سوئِد
Piedmontese: pms Svessia
Pitcairn-Norfolk: pih Swiiden
Poitevin-Saintongeais: roa-poi Suéde f
Polish: pl Szwecja f
Portuguese: pt Suécia f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: pa ਸਵੀਡਨ m
Shahmukhi: pa سَوِیڈَن m
Western Punjabi: pnb سویڈن
Quechua: qu Suysya
Rarotongan: rar Tuitene
Romanian: ro Suedia f
Romansh: rm Svezia
Russian: ru Шве́ция f
Rwanda-Rundi:
Kinyarwanda: rw Suwede
Sami:
Inari Sami: smn Ruotâ
Kildin Sami: sjd Рӯһце̄ммьне
Lule Sami: smj Svierik
Northern Sami: se Ruoŧŧa
Pite Sami: sje Sverdji
Skolt Sami: sms Ruõcc, sms Ruõccjânnam
Southern Sami: sma Sveerje, sma Svöörje
Ume Sami: sju Ruohtsa
Samoan: sm Sweden
Samogitian: sgs Švedėjė
Sanskrit: sa स्वीडन
Sardinian: sc Isvetzia f
Scots: sco Swaden
Scottish Gaelic: gd Suain An t-Suain
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Шве̏дска̄ f
Latin: sh Švȅdskā f
Sicilian: scn Sbezzia f
Silesian: szl Szwecyjo f
Sindhi: sd سويڊن
Sinhalese: si ස්වීඩනය
Slovak: sk Švédsko n
Slovene: sl Švédska f
Somali: so Sweden, so Iswiidhan
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb Šwedska f
Upper Sorbian: hsb Šwedska f
Spanish: es Suecia f
Sundanese: su Swédia
Swahili: sw Uswidi
Swazi: ss ISwideni
Swedish: sv Sverige n
Tagalog: tl Suwesya
Tahitian: ty Tuete
Tajik: tg Шветсия, tg Шведсия, tg Суэд
Tamil: ta சுவீடன்
Tatar: tt Швеция
Telugu: te స్వీడన్
Tetum: tet Suésia
Thai: th สวีเดน
Tibetan: bo སི་ཝེ་དེན
Tigrinya: ti ስዊድን
Tok Pisin: tpi Suwidan
Turkish: tr İsveç
Turkmen: tk Şwesiýa, tk Iswiç
Udmurt: udm Швеция
Ukrainian: uk Шве́ція f
Urdu: ur سْوِیڈَن m
Uyghur: ug شۋېتسىيە
Uzbek: uz Shvetsiya, uz Shvesiya
Venetan: vec Svezsia
Veps: vep Ročinma
Vietnamese: vi Thụy Điển (vi 瑞典)
Volapük: vo Svedän
Võro: vro Roodsi
Votic: vot Rootsimaa
Walloon: wa Suwedwesse
Waray-Waray: war Suecia
Welsh: cy Sweden f
West Flemish: vls Zweedn n
Wolof: wo Suweed
Yakut: sah Швеция
Yiddish: yi שוועדן n
Yoruba: yo Swídìn
Zazaki: Southern Zazaki zza İswec
Zealandic: zea Zweden
Zhuang: za Ruidenj
Zulu: zu ISwidi
See also
Appendix:Countries of the world
en Suecophile
References
Anagrams
en deensw endews newsed snewed
en exonyms
Cornish
kw:
Flag of Sweden.svg Baner Sweden. EU-Sweden.svg Sweden yn an Unyans Europek.
Etymology
kw :bor en:Sweden 1
Borrowed from kw en Sweden.
Pronunciation
kw /ˈsweːdɛn/
Proper noun
kw propn m
kw Sweden Q34
kw Swedherwyk
Coordinate terms
Related terms
kw Swed<t:Swede><g:m> Swedek<t:Swedish language> swedek<t:Swedish><pos:a> Swedes<t:Swede><g:f>
Welsh
cy:
Pronunciation
cy /ˈswɛdɛn/ cy-N
cy /ˈsweːdɛn/ /ˈswɛdɛn/ cy-S
cy sweden peritoneum
cy eːdɛn 2
Proper noun
f
cy Sweden Q34
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
cy Teyrnas Sweden Kingdom of Sweden
cy exonyms