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🇸🇪 Choosing the right words of condolences in Swedish

Top 10 +1 formal and polite alternatives

MySwedish
3 min readAug 24, 2020

Hello beautiful reader ❤️. I am glad that you are here to learn some Swedish. Today we are going to talk about a not very pleasant topic yet very important. It is going to be about how to condolence in Swedish. I hope that you will enjoy the lesson and that you will learn something new and useful.

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Words of condolences

Choosing the right words of condolences is always an important think do. There are several alternatives of doing this in Swedish.

Top 6 formal alternatives

You can choose one of the following phrases in formal situations.

  1. Jag beklagar din förlust .— I’m sorry for your loss.
  2. Jag deltar i din sorg .— I share you in grief.
  3. Du har mitt varmaste deltagande. — Please accept my deepest and most heartfelt condolences.
  4. Så sorgligt att X har gått bort, du har all min medkänsla .— So sad that X has passed away, you have all my sympathy.
  5. Mina tankar är med dig .— You are in my thoughts/I’m thinking of you.
  6. Jag beklagar sorgen. — This one is actually use very often and is a mixture of Jag beklagar din

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