Swedish: An Essential Grammar, 2nd edition

Vad får det lov att vara?
Can I help you? (in a shop)
Hur var namnet?
What is your name?
Önskas socker?
Do you take/Would you like sugar?
5 Man is used:
(a) as an alternative to du as a slightly ironic form of address:
Har man sovit bättre i natt?
Did you sleep better last night?
(b) as an equivalent to English ‘one’ or ‘you’:
Man kan aldrig veta.
You never know/One never knows.
6 Pejorative expressions: Swedish uses the possessive pronoun (5.5) not
the personal pronoun in pejorative expressions such as Din dumbom! (You
fool!), Era idioter (You idiots!), and also in Din stackare! (You poor thing!).
5.7
5
Pronouns
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Demonstrative pronouns
Non-neuter
Neuter
Plural
den flickan
det huset
de flickorna/husen
this/that girl
this/that house
these/those girls/houses
den här flickan
det här huset
de här flickorna/husen
this girl
this house
these girls/houses
den där flickan
det där huset
de där flickorna/husen
that girl
that house
those girls/houses
denna flicka
⊗
detta hus
⊗
dessa flickor
⊗
/hus
this/that girl
this/that house
these/these girls/houses
samma flicka
⊗
samma hus
⊗
samma flickor
⊗
/hus
⊗
the same girl
the same house
the same girls/houses
en sådan flicka
⊗
ett sådant hus
⊗
sådana flickor
⊗
/hus
⊗
such a girl
such a house
such girls/houses
Notes:
1 Den etc. (always stressed when used as a demonstrative pronoun) is preferred with
abstract nouns:
Det året kom vi till Sverige.
That year we arrived in Sweden.
2 Den här, den där, etc., are found in both speech and writing, and require an end
article on the noun.
3 Denna, detta, etc., are generally reserved for written Swedish and require no end
article on the noun.
4 As in English, demonstratives may be used predicatively (i.e. independently of a noun).
They then take the number/gender of the noun to which they refer:
De här tavlorna är dyrare än 
These pictures are more expensive than 
de där.
those.
Detta är något nytt.
This is something new.
There is no equivalent in Swedish to English ‘one’ in phrases like ‘this one/that one’, etc:
Jag tar det här, inte det där.
I’ll take this one, not that one.
Note that the demonstrative de (these, those) has an object form when used predicatively: