Swedish: An Essential Grammar, 2nd edition

Han är längre än sin fru.
He is taller than his wife.
cf.
Han är längre än hans fru är.
He is taller than his wife is.
8 Note the use of sin/sitt/sina in expressions with var sin etc.:
Vi fick var sin banan.
We got a banana each.
Flickorna fick var sitt äpple.
The girls got an apple each.
Notice that var is indeclinable in such phrases, and that the choice of
sin/sitt/sina is determined by the gender/number of the noun qualified.
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Non-reflexive
and reflexive
possessives:
hans or sin?
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Forms of address
For personal pronouns see 5.1 f.
1 By far the most common forms of address in modern Swedish are du
(you, singular) and ni (you, plural). From the 1960s onwards, as old class
barriers became less marked, du became almost universally accepted in
Sweden. There are, however, a number of alternative conventions.