Category:Swedish terms by usage

Swedish terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Swedish archaic terms: Swedish terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Swedish autological terms: Swedish terms that possess the property they themselves describe.
• Category:Swedish childish terms: Swedish terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:Swedish colloquialisms: Swedish terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Swedish dated terms: Swedish terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
• Category:Swedish derogatory terms: Swedish terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Swedish dialectal terms: Swedish terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Swedish ecclesiastical terms: Swedish terms used only by religious figures.
• Category:Swedish endearing terms: Swedish terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
• Category:Swedish formal terms: Swedish terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Swedish higher register terms: Swedish terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Swedish historical terms: Swedish terms that refer to obsolete things or concepts.
• Category:Swedish humorous terms: Swedish terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:Swedish informal terms: Swedish terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Swedish nonstandard terms: Swedish terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Swedish obsolete terms: Swedish terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Swedish offensive terms: Swedish terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Swedish placeholder terms: Swedish terms used to refer to items for which one does not know or cannot recall the name, or is unable to or does not care to specify precisely.
• Category:Swedish poetic terms: Swedish terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Swedish proscribed terms: Swedish terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:Swedish self-deprecatory terms: Swedish self-deprecatory terms.
• Category:Swedish short forms: Swedish terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
• Category:Swedish slang: Swedish colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Swedish solemn terms: Swedish terms that are used to instill a sense of somberness.
• Category:Swedish technical terms: Swedish terms that are usually or exclusively used in technical/scientific writing.
• Category:Swedish terms with archaic senses: Swedish terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Swedish terms with historical senses: Swedish terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Swedish terms with obsolete senses: Swedish terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Swedish terms with rare senses: Swedish rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
• Category:Swedish terms with transferred senses: Swedish terms with transferred senses.
• Category:Swedish terms with uncommon senses: Swedish uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
• Category:Swedish trademarks: Swedish terms that identify legal entities, their products and services, by means of legal protection — to some extent, in a number of jurisdictions — against unauthorized use of the terms.
• Category:Swedish uncommon terms: Swedish uncommonly used terms.
• Category:Swedish vulgarities: Swedish terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.