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201 Swedish Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses (201 Verbs Series)

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While the conjugation patterns of Swedish verbs are relatively simple and do not require the same schematic analysis as, say, the verbs of Russian or Hebrew, Richard Auletta has gone beyond the mere compiling of Swedish verbs and offered the reader a truly valuable explanation of Swedish verbal morphology. The first part of the book is dedicated to this explanation, presenting the various classes of verbs, the rules behind the morphology, and the history of some archaic forms. Auletta's explanation of the nature of Swedish verbs will serve and interest the student long after he or she has actually learned to conjugate most verbs.

This is a very good book for learning Swedish verbs as well as changes that are occurring in the Swedish language. It gives alternate forms that are used in historical or formal situations as well as those constructions used in more contemporary daily speech. Overall I think if you memorize the verbs in this book and practice the conjugations you will not have any problem with the Swedish language. Thankfully Swedish and English share a common history and that makes it easier for an English speaker to learn Swedish. If you know Swedish you will also understand much written and some spoken Danish since Swedish and Danish are closely related. You will also understand much Norwegian. Therefore I highly recommend getting this book to help you get a start on Swedish and the other Scandinavian languages.

This is without a doubt the one Swedish book which one needs. There are plenty of good grammar books, a couple excellent dictionaries, but only one verb reference--fortunately it's outstanding.

It does an excellent job of explaining the changing nature of Swedish verbs and describes biblical/antiquainted forms in detail. Strong verb vowel patterns are included in a consice chart and most of them have an example fully conjugated as one of the 201 (which leads to some of them being rather odd choices [att niga - to curtsy] for the book). This is an important thing to remember, because many very common verbs are left out of the 201 for being perfectly regular; one can find them on the abbreviated list in the back. Finally, the colloquial exceptions to the rule are not omitted, in true Swedish egalitarianism.

I highly recommend this: I just bought five for the people in my Swedish class.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning Swedish. The authors do a wonderful job in explaining different aspects of swedish verbs and their declensions. Also, the part on strong verbs is excellent. Instead of telling you to memorize a bunch of rules, they help you see the pattern. They also do well explaining archaic verb forms, which is good for anyone who wants to read older historical texts and maybe even family relics from a century ago. This is a great book and you won't regret getting it!

I have been in a swedish for immigrants course in Sweden and this book has been an excellent tool for helping to find the correct form of the verb in both written and spoken swedish. It does not take long for one to learn how to apply the rules in every day use without the book being right there. All-in-all, I would say it is definately a must have for anyone seriously interested in learning to speak swedish.

And for those really skeptical, even the swedish teachers here were impressed with this book and recommended it to all of the other students in the class.

This is a great book to be used as a reference. It has much more than the 200 model verbs; it also has 100's of verbs at the back of the book with their english translation. The only draw back is its lack of sentences. I've not found a single Swedish verb book with examples.

As above this book is really very useful. It was exactly what I was searching for.
It would have been better if it contained more than 201 verbs.

This is the only Swedish verb book similar to the 501 series (except this is a 201, or course) on Swedish verbs that I have been able to find. It is a very helpful book for Swedish. I recommend any new student of Swedish buy this with the Essentials of Swedish Grammar book by Passport Books (NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group). Simply great. This helped me a lot.

Of course, who could live without this book while studying Swedish? Full conj and everything! The only issue I have with this book is that there are only 201 and not 501 verbs like in the other books by Barrons.

I purchased this booking thinking it would give me a good overview of Swedish verbs. It's a good book but way to complicated, especially if you are a beginner. I recommend getting the book called 2,000 Common Swedish Verbs, by David Hensleigh. This book is easy and has more verbs. If you have ever taken a professional Swedish class it is in the same format that the teachers want to see you put your verbs.