Not so much a dictiornary, but I really like Verbix http://www.verbix.com/languages/swedish.shtml

this one is useful for both swedish and dutch words:

http://ordbok.lagom.nl/woordenboek.html

After sifting through a couple of these, I noted that the terminology is a bit different from English dictionaries. Would you consider a post or a bonus skill or something that explains some words for dictionary-reading?

Excellent list! Do note, however, that the etymological dictionary available online is a digitalisation of the first edition, which may contain errors. Later editions are still under copyright.

For some true ”överkurs” my favourite dictionary, "Glossarium öfver föråldrade eller ovanliga ord och talesätt” is also to be found online: http://runeberg.org/ovanliga/

Hmmm... I should really look through my old Svenska för Invandrare/Svenska som andra språk stuff for some of the online resources. Off the top of my head Safir (http://www.digitalasparet.se/safir/startsida.htm) might be a good complement to what exists here.

I'm not sure if this has been answered before but is there a site that explains how gender is determined, when to use "en" and "ett" and other grammar issues I may come across?

a very nice dictionary app and free for Android phones is Folkets https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.air.com.fiddleapps.FolketsOrdbokhl=en

A useful function it has and also that bab.la nice iPhone app has is "history" of things you look up. I find this terribly useful. Both offline-ready which is more useful.

Another app solution that is good is for Kindle (or e-readers) - on Amazon there wasa very cheap Swedish English dictionary and also a free one I found somewhere - I forget where. Handy if you are reading on kindle at least and no wifi. I find I use dictionary most when I am not data connected, otherwise I settle for Google Translate as it is so versatile.

This is an absolutely fantastic list, thanks! In a similar vein, does anyone have some good resources for children's books in Swedish? That seems like it would be a good supplement to the Duolingo training.

Wiktionary has always been fantastic for me. The quality of Finnish words is amazing (individual pages for most common forms of each word). Usually the translations of Swedish words are present with complete inflection tables which is immensely helpful. The fact that it's free is pretty fantastic as well.

I have created a Swedish Multi-Search tool inspired by the contributors to fluent-forever.com and by the Duolingo Swedish-English Team. Currently, this tool searches 12 websites for Swedish words. The tool also has a button for clearing the tabs for previous multi-searches. The tool works just fine when opened with Chrome or Firefox. However, the 'Click Here to Delete Tabs for Previous Multi-Searches'' button does not function in Microsoft Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge. For all 12 windows to appear when using IE or Edge, you must "Allow Pop-up Windows''. I don't know if it works on mobile devices.

The 12 websites are:

1. Forvo (audio for pronunciation of searched word by native Swedes)
2. Google Images (for images associated with the searched word, can be used in flash card applications like Anki)
3. Lexin
4. Norstedts Ordböcker (includes lots of phrases in which the searched word is used)
5. SV Wiktionary (includes inflection of searched word and example sentences)
6. EN Wiktionary (same as above)
7. Bab.la Dictionary (audio of searched word; sentences for various different meanings of searched word)
8. Google Translate
9. The People's Dictionary (includes audio, synonyms, example sentences, derived compound words using searched word)
10. Interglot Translation Dictionary
11. SALDO (includes comprehensive conjugations, inflections; shows verb group and noun declension)
12. Word Reference

I used this tool in creating my own Anki (http://ankisrs.net/) card sets for Swedish. I hope you find this tool useful too. CandyKD

I just finished the Swedish tree so this is my way of giving back to the community that got me to 51% fluency in Swedish. ( I still have a lot of practice to do!)

Here is the link to my GitHub repository for the tool:

https://github.com/CanDKD/SV_Multi_Search

Be sure to read the 'README.md' file for instructions for accessing the tool.

Special ''thanks'' to thorr18 below for helping me make this tool more accessible.

The Nordstedts dictionary apps are very conveniently split up into several. If you're wanting something like the Collins Complete Unabridged German app with all its features you'll be fairly disappointed. One dictionary had noun endings for definite singular and definite plural, another has pronunciation of Swedish verbs and another had some different feature that I can't remember off the top of my head. To be honest, they could have easily fit all those features into one app but they don't. After seeing all these links it looks like there's a plethora of free options so now I won't have to spend a fortune!

Another link is the dic.cc site and app. Though the Swedish database is much smaller than the German one there's some phrases in there that I didn't find on bab.la.

Tack :p

Another useful resource is linguee.com. This is a searchable database of "hundreds of millions" of human-translated texts (most from the EU it seems). I've used it a lot for French/English, but Swedish is there too. The big advantage over dictionaries and machine-translation sites is the ability to see several real-world translations of words and phrases in context. Translation quality can vary though.

Has http://litteraturbanken.se/#!/start changed? I don't see the option to search through den Svenska Ordboken anymore.

I'm a Swedish English bilingual speaker (live in new zealand) and I only ever use tyda.se it's quick and easy and as you type it gives suggestions in both English and Swedish

Dict.cc is a brilliant dictionary. It has many languages including Norwegian and Swedish.

Hey, guys... I have a question. I'm planning to work as nurse in Sweden. Can someone point me in direction of some medical related resources, that could help me with that part of swedish. Thanks.

is there like "Project Gutenberg" but with small text in swedish, or children books i can get online? little red riding hood, or other folk stories for kids..??? i learnt english way before anyone in my school, by curiously reading books... for me this is how i learn a language... Tack sa mycket.

My Swedish teacher recommand us http://ungafakta.se . That is a webpage for children, so you get a lot of easy to read texts of different subjects. Probably a good start for reading texts and to pick new words to improve one's vocabulary.

svenska.se is really great. Here you can search SO, SAOL and SAOB at once. Note that all of these are Swedish-Swedish dictionaries, but once your Swedish is up to it, I highly recommend using them. (Especially SO, which is also available as app. In the past the app cost like 50 SEK, which it's definitely worth, but now it seems to be available for free.)

I think this is the best place to ask and not a new topic; can anyone recommend me some good podcasts? The trouble with finding swedish podcasts is that swedes all speak english too well... if I put my country as sweden most podcasts (especially in stuff i'm interested in, science and games) are still in english! I've tried the barn och familj categorie, thinking I could find something easy, but I don't know if I'd get bored... and the sesame street and children's stories podcasts were both in english! Anyone know some with cool fairy tales or something? (or maybe folklore?)

Tack så mycket

Is there also a dictionary or vocabulary with the (official IPA) phonetic transcription? It would be nice to search the pronunciation of words I learn by reading and not by listening...

I wish to add the http://www.interglot.com/ which I use a lot and of course the wikibooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Swedish

I use acapela http://www.acapela-group.com/voices/demo/ a lot: when I get a "translate from English to Swedish" task I try and then (not getting the sound file here with this type of a task) copypaste the correct answer to acapela to listen to it there. It's only a robot as well of course, so for instance they don't turn a sound into a retroflex one after a word ending in -r; on the other hand they have four speakers for "standard" Swedish and one each for Finnish, Scanian and Gothenburg Swedish.

If you learn with texts, for example on www.8sidor.se i can strongly recommend using it together with "Learning with Texts", a totally free open-source application that saves your read words, provides a in-app dictionary and helps to learn words and expressions in context. You should check it out: http://lwt.sourceforge.net/

What is the best way to determine if a word is an en or ett word?

You type the basic form "brev" in dictionary and see if the definite form ends in something that resembles "et"?

Like in this case, http://tyda.se/search/brev?lang%5B0%5D=en&lang%5B1%5D=sv

Says: brevet brev breven

From which I can tell that brev must be an ett word.

You might want to add: https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/addon/g%C3%B6rans-hemmasnickrade-ordli/ to the resources list, a good private initiative for a spellchecker-plugin in the browser. Very good for writing emails in webmail, or at web-pages, for example it will highlight words that I spell wrong here in the comment box before I send it., right click on your word to get suggestions.

21st-century polyglot man.

I was wondering is there a dictionary that also includes "en"/"ett" with nouns, sort of like "le"/"la" for French words? It would be even better if Duolingo dictionary included these....

Great resources, thank you very much. Do you know of any reading text and/or reading text+audio which would be suitable for beginner? I tried reading Harry Potter och De vises sten I got book + audiobook, but at my current level is a bit too difficult, do you know of anything?

My absolute favourite dictionary is Nationalencyklopedins ordbok, which you have to pay for unfortunately unless you can access it through your university or school. I think it's really brilliant, with very exact definitions, example sentences and short etymology. It's very extensive and in Swedish, so the definitions can be hard to grasp as a non-native speaker however.

thank you!

Personally I prefer this one. http://folkets-lexikon.csc.kth.se/folkets/folkets.html

also, not sur eif I Should mention this here, but the best site apart from Duolingo for me as an autodidactical student is 8sidor.se

It has few-minutes long audio of current news.

So this is Foreign, Swedish, Sport news etc. No translations are given but the language is simplified although not to any major detriment in my view. It is about clarity for learners.

They have added a nice little widget player for listening, and you can even choose slower or faster playback for that. It also highlights the current word in its accompanying transcripted text.

Very nice resource and gives good listening practice with helpful scaffolding.

Ah, thank you so much for this! Even though I don't take Swedish on DuoLingo, I do in school, I'll be using this a lot!

So useful! Thank you!

Thanks you so much for this article ! I was needing a lot that help, utmärkt!

Thank you very very much :) I hope to be able to speak some Swedish next time I visit my friend there :)

Tack! great help

google translate is NOT good

http://www.luxikon.se - dictionary with slang words.

can you speak so many languages arnauti

can someone speak arabic ore icelandic here

I wish I could read Swedish well enough to use more of these :/ There's one that looks like it could answer a question I had about the etymology of ursäkta.

forvo.com is a good resource

I'm a complete beginner in Swedish, but when I was googling around for a dictionary to look up utrum/neutrum classifications and declensions, I found SALDO (Svenskt associationslexikon 2) from Uni Gothenburg. LOVE IT.

http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/resource/saldo

(The Search SALDO link at the left is where I usually go: http://spraakbanken.gu.se/ws/saldo-ws/fl/html )

really useful, thanks!

A nice dictionary "German to Swedish" and back can be found at https://www.pauker.at/pauker/DE_DE/SE/wb/

I'm excited to access the Svenska Akademiens ordbok because I am trying to read and understand manuscripts written several hundred years ago. This may not be the most appropriate place to ask this question, but does anyone have a good place to get acquainted with old Swedish handwriting? The formulation of the letters has me baffled.

tack så mycket! XD

Folkets Ordbok (app) is good also

English-Swedish Dictionary -It contains over 50,000 terms and 100,000 translations in both English and Swedish-

http://www.wordreference.com/ensv/

Folkets is an excellent English-Swedish dictionary. It can also be installed on mac os x as a system dictionary which can be very useful in your day to day life. http://hashier.github.com/MacFolket

wiktionary offers examples, usage, spelling, conjugations, etc., except pronunciation. You can install an app on ios to access the dictionary in a nice format suitable for smartphones.

I think I found a resource where Swedish words are transcribed correctly in IPA: http://de.pons.com/ Could some Swedes familiar with IPA check some (or many :p) regularly and irregularly pronounced words in this dictionary, and let me/us know if the transcription is indeed correct? Tack så mycket!

Tak så mycket!

Thank you! This website really has helped! I couldn't have learned anything without this site! So TAK x A TRILLION! I definitely would recommend this site to users all around the world!!! Like I said, TAK x A TRILLION!

Tack så mycket! Awesome!

This is so useful. Thanks.

As dictionarie I normaly use dict.cc ... there are a lot of sundry languages. This page is from germany, for that reason particularly suitable for germans. But you also can translate from english in several languages.

In my opinion its the best dictionary by far.

Excellent, thank you so much! I have been wishing for a Swedish Dictionary where I can hear the correct way to pronounce the words.

The apps for the Svensk ordbok seem to be free now:

http://www.svenskaakademien.se/svenska-spraket/svensk-ordbok-utgiven-av-svenska-akademien-so-tillganglig-som-gratis-app

thank you for sharing

tack så mycket

One may also have a look at https://dict.cc. It is a dictionary platform founded by an Austrian guy in 2002, where users cannot only look up but also add and share translations between various languages. Germans in particular may like https://desv.dict.cc. It is the "German/Swedish" dictionary and has the most entries (+120.000) of all language combinations (often more than "German/English").

SAOB, SAOL och SO: svenska.se/tre/

D fantastiskt. Tack så mycket.

thank you !

I’ve found https://glosbe.com/sv/en/ to often have more translation examples than bab.la or linguee.com .

Here is an offline Swedish to English dictionary for kindle: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Dacucars-Swedish-English-Dictionary-Cutillas-Carrillo-ebook. It is not free, but priced very reasonably (at $5) and it is the best one out there for kindle users. What makes this great is that you can select a word and it will look up in the dictionary for you, thus reducing so much friction compared to using a separate dictionary.

I am also looking for a similar (babylon-like) kind of dictionary for desktop. Windows 10 has Sidebar dictionary whose Pro version offers Swedish, which is quite nice. But I still want to reduce more friction when looking up word, such that you highlight/select a word in any app/web and the meaning of the word would pop up. Thanks in advance for any recommendation/suggestions!!

I see I’m a bit late to the party, but I’ll try anyway: I need some advice regarding Swedish-English, English-Swedish dictionaries.

So far, I’ve been managing just fine with free online resources. Lately, however, I noticed it would be very useful if I had an actual, comprehensive dictionary, especially when I’m reading books in Swedish. (I’m currently trying to reread Larsson’s Millennium series in Swedish. Wish me luck.) I’m not yet advanced enough a learner for a monolingual Swedish dictionary.

Based on some recommendations and good personal experience with Ord.se, which is based on Norstedts Swedish-English dictionary, I concluded that Norstedts dictionaries would be quite a decent option. The problem is - I’m not sure whether their Engelska Pro or their Engelska fickordbok is a better choice. The first one is a lot bigger (and more expensive), while the latter is more basic, (but also more affordable). Prices of the corresponding dictionary apps are, on the other hand, pretty much ok.

Does anyone have any experience with these dictionaries? All other recommendations are of course always welcome.