Swedish Frequency Dictionary For Learners: Practical Vocabulary - Top 10000 Swedish Words

This word-frequency style of reference is pretty useful, and I am not sure if there's any other similar product on the market. It serves its purpose and will be useful.However this is not a very high quality product. The printing, binding, and paper quality seem okay, but the textual content is very sloppy.I plan to use it as a list of words, in order, that I can turn into flash cards. I think it will serve this purpose. I'm not always going to trust its definitions, though. The very shoddy editing and formatting, and the use of British English instead of American English make me think I won't be able to rely on it as an actual *dictionary*.Cons:- The translations are *British* English, not American English. They also are fairly sloppy. For example, there are translations like "hallå" -> "hullabaloo" and "veta" -> "ken". While "hullabaloo" *can* be a greeting, its common usage is "a commotion". While the Swedish word "veta" is a verb, the English word "ken" is a noun, meaning the bredth of ones knowledge, e.g. "it is beyond my ken". Except in Scottish and Northern English, where "ken" can be a verb, which is hardly common usage :P- The editors didn't bother to correct the formatting, and word/definition pairs constantly span pages. You have to turn the page to see the definition.- The Table of Contents says "Spanish Swedish Frequency Dictionary" instead of "English Swedish Frequency Dictionary". This does not inspire confidence in them having properly verified the 10000 definitions.Pros:- The word frequency rankings look like they're probably correct. I checked the first 600 or so, and they're all very common words that I already know in my first 2 years of studying.- There is enough space next to the words and definitions in the book to correct the definitions by hand, if you write somewhat small.- The paper and binding and ink all seem to be okay-enough quality. Nothing amazing, but (crossing-fingers!) I don't think it's going to fall apart from 1-2 years of medium-careful use.If this thing starts falling apart in the next year, I'll definitely be back to give this a 1-star instead. Hopefully it doesn't.

I'm a beginner at Swedish, but I can already tell that this resource might be more trouble than it's worth. For example, I know the word "där" CAN mean 'where', but it also means 'there' like when saying 'titta där!' (Look there!) This dictionary only shows 'where' as the definition. Also, I looked up to word 'cat's to test out the search function and I was surprised to find that 'cat' is not shown as the definition of 'katt.' Instead, this dictionary says the definition of the swedish word 'katt' is 'mog.' SOoo, then I had to go to Google to find out what a mog is. Apparently, it's a British slang word for cat. Ive only had this dictionary for about 10 minutes, but that alone makes me question whether or not this was worth my $10. If I have to use Google to look up the definitions of the definitions, I might as well just stick to Google as my language reference and cut out the $10 middleman.

So I think this book is excellent but I call into question many of the translations found in the book. My Swedish, I would say is close to fluent, and by my judgement there are more than a few words that I doubt were translated correctly. Normally the translation is probably technically correct but the wrong homograph was used. I would also caution non Brits that the usage is for British English and not American. This is really not an issue but maybe for a handful of words. Overall worth the money.

It is the best book to learn vocab compare to others so far for me. but two problem is kindle sometimes crash due to the size. maybe try to just keep the vocab frequency rank one will solve this problem. and also some translation is weird.

It is essential to learn the gender of a Swedish noun (en/ett). At a glance, one might think that the notation "nn" next to a word meant "neuter noun" - but it just means "noun". This book doesn't show the genders of any of the nouns.Ideally, each noun should be accompanied by either an indication of its gender (e.g. "-en" or "-et") plus an indication of its plural endings, or an indication of its gender plus its declension number - and each verb should be accompanied by either its principal parts or its conjugation number.But short of that, to show the gender is a minimum essential for any wordlist.The book is also shoddily bound and began falling apart on second use. I know this is not a fluke as another review also commented on poor binding. Consequently I'm changing my rating from 2 stars to 1 star.

Even though I read the review, I thought to myself: "it can't be THAT bad."Well, it is. Do not buy until fixed.

No exemples, just a list out of context. Needless.