🇩🇰 → 🇸🇪

How easy is Swedish for Danish speakers?

Going from Danish to Swedish (Svenska) has a composite linguistic distance of 13% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

13% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours

Lexical similarity

85%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

100%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

25%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship

100%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Sample sentences side-by-side

How everyday sentences look in both languages:

🇩🇰 Danish

Barnet leker i trädgården med sin hund varje dag.

🇸🇪 Swedish

Barnet leger i haven med sin hund hver dag.

🇩🇰 Danish

Hon läser böcker och skriver brev på kvällen.

🇸🇪 Swedish

Hun læser bøger og skriver breve om aftenen.

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