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superkoning t1_jac5ed0 wrote

Reply to comment by Shudnawz in W is the only letter in the alphabet with more than one syllable by chronolucks

and is W in Swedish a common letter? Or something foreign?

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Shudnawz t1_jac5t8d wrote

It has existed for a few hundred years at least. It's common in German, to which Swedish is closely related and we've swapped words with each other for a very long time.

Tho, it's not that common in modern day native Swedish words, no.

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superkoning t1_jac7564 wrote

>Tho, it's not that common in modern day native Swedish words, no.

I thought so: "vattenfall" is waterfall / Wasserfall / waterval. So in Swedish a v is used where other Germanic languages use a w?

Next question: is there a "v" pronounced as a soft f in Swedish?

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Shudnawz t1_jac9cgl wrote

Yeah, Swedish v is basically German w.

About a soft f, not that comes to mind right now. But that said, I'm no linguist or language teacher.

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