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Swedish nature vocabulary

These are the Swedish words about nature that come up most often in real speech, ranked by how often they appear in film and TV subtitles. Start with the first ones, such as mamma (mum), grund (ground), kropp (body), because you will run into them on almost any page about the subject, and the rarer words make more sense once those are familiar.

Words in this list: 30

#WordPronunciationTranslationLevel
1mamma/mamːa/mumA1
2grund/`ɡrɵndarə/groundA2
3kropp/krɔp/bodyA2
4värld/vɛːrd/worldA2
5hund/hɵnd/dogA2
6bär/ˈbæːr/berryA2
7planet/plaˈneːt/planetA2
8hår/hoːr/hairA2
9djur/ˈjʉːr/animalA2
10ren/ˈreːn/reindeerA2
11lik/ˈliːk/corpseA2
12häst/hɛst/horseB1
13mobilmobileB1
14träd/trɛːd/treeB1
15fisk/fisk/fishB1
16ägg/ˈɛɡː/eggB1
17sten/steːn/stoneB1
18långalingB1
19drottning/'drɔtːnɪŋ/queenB1
20katt/ˈkatː/catB1
21rock/rɔk/rockB1
22universum/ɵnɪˈvɛʂːɵm/universeB1
23storemainB1
24stjärna/ˈɧɛːrˌna/starB1
25gräs/ɡrɛːs/grassB1
26bank/ˈbaŋːk/bankB1
27fågel/ˈfoːɡəl/birdB1
28björn/ˈbjœːɳ/bearB1
29hud/hʉːd/skinB2
30berg/ˈbærj/mountainB2

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Sources: translations and pronunciation from Wiktionary (wikdict, CC BY-SA 3.0) and ipa-dict (MIT), frequency from OpenSubtitles (FrequencyWords).