Swedish: An Essential Grammar, 2nd edition

Particle verbs: the particles Han sa
˚
tte på sig 
are stressed, the verbs 
ha.tten.
unstressed
He put on his hat.
Föraren kö
˚
rde o.m bilen.
The driver overtook the car.
Adverbial
Inte is unstressed
Hon vi.ll i
˚
nte. De är i
˚
nte
he.mma.
She does not want to. They are
not at home.
Other adverbials are 
Här är han nu. Därför vill vi 
usually stressed whether 
inte vänta lä.ngre.
first or last in the 
Here he is now. That is why we 
sentence
do not want to wait any longer.
Stänger den inte tidigt idag?
Doesn’t it close early today?
Word stress
Word stress is found only in words that have sentence stress.
1 Non-compounds:
Of these words, some 35 per cent are monosyllables, 40 per cent have
initial stress on the first syllable and 25 per cent non-initial stress on a
different syllable:
Words with initial stress: