Swedish: An Essential Grammar, 2nd edition

Vi åkte till Lund i våras.
→
I våras åkte vi till Lund.
→
Till Lund åkte vi i våras.
12.7.1
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Word order
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The OA, topicalized or not, often consists of a subordinate clause:
Vi åkte till Lund när 
→
När vi kom hem åkte 
vi kom hem.
vi till Lund.
Translations: We went to Lund last spring. Last spring we went to Lund. To Lund
we went last spring. We went to Lund when we got home. When we got home
we went to Lund.
2 Natural topics
Most natural topics are unstressed and represent familiar information or
are used to link sentences together:
Vi behövde en semester, så i somras reste vi till Värmland.
Där träffade vi några gamla vänner. De har en stor villa. 
Den har tio rum. Vi bodde där en hel vecka. Sedan måste vi
tyvärr resa hem igen.
Translations: We needed a holiday, so last summer we went to Värmland. There
we met some old friends. They have a big house. It has ten rooms. We lived there
for a whole week. Then alas we had to come home again.
3 Emphatic topics
These are rarer and often represent new information. The following
emphatic topics are either stylistically marked or used for contrast:
Förskräckligt är det. En tidning köpte vi också. Det kan jag
aldrig tro på. I fjol dog han (inte i år). Springa efter flickor kan