Adjective
vanlig
common
Intermediateadjective
Meaning
vanlig is the Swedish word for common — a adjective you meet early when building Swedish vocabulary. Learn it in context with the example below, hear the pronunciation, then lock it into memory by playing it in the free LearnSwedishFast arcade game.
Example
En glad kvinna säger sin tanke: filmen är mer än en vanlig historia.
A cheerful woman says her thought: the film is more than an ordinary story.
Short, natural learner sentences—meant for memory, not dictionary citations.
Word forms
Common inflected forms of vanlig you will see while reading Swedish.
- vanliga
- vanligare
- vanligast
- vanligt