Numbers in Swedish

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Numbers

This lesson is going to talk about numbers, time, money and dates.

Hello and welcome to MySwedish learning corner again! It is going to be fun today.

When it comes to languages it is always good to be cautious and get to know the small differencies. It will make you look more native-like and confident.

Let’s start with the ordinal numbers. The table below shows how to deal with it in Swedish:

1st 2nd 3rd 4th … 10th
1:a 2:a 3:e 4:e … 10:e

Now let’s take a look at time. Swedish uses the 24-hour system unlike English which uses the 12-hour system. The tables below clarify this:

9 a.m.
9:00

9 p.m.
21:00

There are some minor differences in decimal numbers and number separators as well:

3.5

3,5 (tre komma fem)

3,000

3 000 (tre tusen)

The currency in Sweden is krona (crown) where 100 öre equals 1 krona. See the table…