🇳🇱 → 🇸🇪
How easy is Swedish for Dutch speakers?
Going from Dutch to Swedish (Svenska) has a composite linguistic distance of 35% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
35% distance
FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours
Lexical similarity
48%
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Grammatical distance
92%
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Phonological similarity
17%
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Writing-system match
100%
Latin → Latin
Genealogical kinship
70%
Indo-European ↔ Indo-European
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Sample sentences side-by-side
How everyday sentences look in both languages:
🇳🇱 Dutch
Het huis staat naast de rivier en heeft een grote tuin.
🇸🇪 Swedish
Huset står bredvid floden och har en stor trädgård.
🇳🇱 Dutch
De winter is lang maar de zomer is warm en mooi.
🇸🇪 Swedish
Vintern är lång men sommaren är varm och vacker.
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