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say it: SWEE-dish
swedish is a noun and adjective meaning "a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland". It is pronounced /ˈswidɪʃ/ — SWEE-dish. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland
of or relating to or characteristic of Sweden or its people or culture or language
“the Swedish King”
“Swedish punch”
“Swedish umlauts”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for swedish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.