Swedish accent
Stockholm speaker's lilt
A Swedish accent is the characteristic way native Swedish speakers pronounce English, marked by a distinctive melodic intonation pattern that reflects Swedish's pitch-accent system.
The accent often features a lilting, musical quality that rises and falls in ways unfamiliar to English speakers: Her Swedish accent made everything sound like a question.
The term also describes regional variations in spoken Swedish itself.
- ScandinavianOf Denmark, Norway, Sweden
- NordicOf northern Europe
- Northern EuropeContinent's arctic-adjacent region
- StockholmSweden's seat of government
- IKEASwedish home-goods chain
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