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How easy is Dutch for Swedish speakers?

Going from Swedish to Dutch (Nederlands) 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:

🇸🇪 Swedish
Het huis staat naast de rivier en heeft een grote tuin.
🇳🇱 Dutch
Huset står bredvid floden och har en stor trädgård.
🇸🇪 Swedish
De winter is lang maar de zomer is warm en mooi.
🇳🇱 Dutch
Vintern är lång men sommaren är varm och vacker.

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