Phonetics Guide
Learn the sounds of Swedish with our comprehensive IPA guide. Understand how each phoneme is pronounced with real word examples.
Vowels
Monophthong vowel sounds
Short "i" sound as in "sit"
Short "e" sound as in "bed"
Short "oo" sound as in "put"
Long "ah" sound as in "father"
"a" sound as in "cat"
Long "ee" sound as in "see"
Long "aw" sound as in "law"
Schwa - unstressed neutral vowel
Diphthongs
Gliding vowel sounds
Long "a" sound as in "day"
"ow" sound as in "now"
"oy" sound as in "boy"
Long "i" sound as in "my"
Consonants
Consonant sounds
Voiceless alveolar fricative
Alveolar nasal
Alveolar approximant
Voiceless alveolar plosive
Alveolar lateral approximant
Voiceless velar plosive
Voiced alveolar plosive
"ng" sound as in "sing"
Bilabial nasal
Voiceless labiodental fricative
Voiceless bilabial plosive
Voiced labiodental fricative
Voiced bilabial plosive
Voiceless glottal fricative
"y" sound as in "yes"
"sh" sound as in "she"
"ch" sound as in "church"
Voiced velar plosive
"w" sound as in "we"
Voiced alveolar fricative
"zh" sound as in "measure"
Common Patterns
Frequent phonetic patterns