Preface - 1 What makes Swedish familiar? ¿ and a few challenges - 2 Pronunciation - 3 Nouns ¿ gender - 4 Introduction to verbs (present tense) and personal pronouns - 5 Word order ¿ statements and questions - 6 Nouns ¿ s -genitives and plurals - 7 Numerals, time expressions, days and months - 8 Word order ¿ position of elements in the main clause - 9 Pronouns ¿ personal, possessive and indefinite - 10 Demonstrative pronouns - 11 Verbs ¿ infinitives; two-verb constructions; future forms; imperatives - 12 Word order ¿ short answers; postponing the subject - 13 Adjectives ¿ indefinite forms and indeclinable adjectives- 14 Nouns ¿ forms of articles and article use - 15 Prepositions of place ¿ p¿, vid, hos , etc. - 16 Adjectives ¿ definite forms Types I and II - 17 Comparison of adjectives - 18 Word order ¿ the main and subordinate clause; conjunctions; ¿that¿ - 19 Verb conjugations I, II, III ¿ past and perfect tenses - 20 Verb conjugation IV ¿ past and perfect tenses - 21 Adverbs and adjectives; form and comparison of adverbs - 22 Adverbs ¿ location and direction - 23 Word order ¿ main and subordinate clauses; position of the clausal adverbial; relative clauses - 24 Verbs¿ the¿ s form, deponents and ¿ s passives - 25 Word formation ¿ introduction - Key to exercises - Glossary of grammatical terms - Vocabulary list.