English → Swedish Translation
English to Swedish translation on your Mac - natural, concise Swedish output in any application.
How It Works
Select your text
Highlight the text you want to translate in any application - email, a document, a browser tab, or a chat window.
Press the shortcut
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AI translates
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite places Swedish verbs in second position, which holds even when the sentence opens with something other than the subject.
Result appears inline
The Swedish is pasted back in place with definiteness marked as a suffix on the noun rather than a separate article.
Example Translation
English (Original)
The new sustainability report shows a 30% reduction in carbon emissions compared to last year. Full details are available on our website.
Swedish (Translated)
Den nya hållbarhetsrapporten visar en minskning av koldioxidutsläppen med 30 procent jämfört med förra året. Fullständiga detaljer finns på vår webbplats.
Translating English to Swedish
Swedish marks definiteness with a suffix rather than an article - hus becomes huset, not det hus - and translations that reach for a separate word read as textbook exercises. Nouns take one of two genders, common and neuter, which determines the article, the adjective ending and the suffix form, and there is no rule that predicts which gender a given noun takes. Verb-second word order holds even when a sentence opens with an adverb, so the subject moves after the verb in a way English never does. Compounds are written closed up, as in German. Swedish business writing is markedly informal - du is standard even in formal correspondence, and the formal ni now sounds either archaic or faintly sarcastic.
Recommended Setup
Best model for this pair
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite handles English to Swedish best in our testing. Any provider you have configured will work - this is the one to pick if you have a choice.
Voice dictation
Dictation is supported for English, so you can speak instead of typing and have the result translated in the same step.
Tips for Better Translations
Swedish uses "du" (informal you) in almost all contexts, including business - the AI follows this convention by default.
Swedish special characters (å, ä, ö) are essential and handled correctly by Echoo on macOS.
Swedish compound words follow similar rules to German - the AI creates natural compounds without unnecessary hyphens.
For Finland-Swedish, specify it in your command settings for minor vocabulary differences.
Frequently Asked Questions
Echoo uses informal "du" by default, which is standard in modern Swedish across virtually all contexts including business.
Yes. Swedish characters å, ä, and ö are fully supported and render correctly on macOS without any special setup.
Very accurate. Swedish and English are closely related Germanic languages, which means AI models translate between them with high fidelity.
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