Swedish: An Essential Grammar, 2nd edition

Philip Holmes was formerly Reader in Scandinavian Studies at the University
of Hull and is now a freelance translator.
Ian Hinchliffe is a freelance translator, living in Sweden.

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Swedish
An Essential Grammar
2nd edition
Philip Holmes and 
Ian Hinchliffe

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First published 1997
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
Reprinted 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006
This edition first published 2008
by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
© 1997, 2008 Philip Holmes and Ian Hinchliffe
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Holmes, Philip
Swedish: an essential grammar/Philip Holmes and Ian Hinchliffe.
– 2nd ed.
p. cm. – (Routledge essential grammars)
1. Swedish language – Grammar.
I. Hinchliffe, Ian.
II. Title.
PD5112.H67 2009
439.782
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421 – dc22
2007039675
ISBN10: 0–415–45800–5 (pbk)
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