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The vocabulary of Swedish is mainly Germanic, either through common Germanic heritage or through loans from German, Middle Low German, and to some extent, English. Examples of Germanic words in Swedish are mus ("mouse"), kung ("king"), and gås ("goose"). A significant part of the religious and scientific vocabulary is of Latin or Greek origin, often borrowed through French and, as of late, English.

A large number of French words were imported into Sweden around the 18th century.  These words have been transcribed to the Swedish spelling system and are therefore pronounced quite recognizably to a French-spéaker. Most of them are distinguished by a "French accent", characterized by emphasis on the last syllable (much like an American would pronounce millieu). Examples: miljö ("millieu"), nivå (fr. niveau, "level"), fåtölj ("arm chair"), toalett ("toilet"), affär ("shop; affair"), etc.

Cross-borrowing from other Germanic languages is also common, at first from Middle Low German, the lingua franca of the Hanseatic league, later from standard German. Some compounds are translations of the elements (calques) of German original compounds into Swedish, e.g bomull from German Baumwolle, cotton (lit. tree-wool). Finland Swedish has a set of separate terms, often calques of their Finnish counterparts, chiefly terms of law and government.

New words are often formed by compounding, and, like many Germanic languages, Swedish compounds words freely and frequently; for example, nagellacksborttagningsmedel ("nail polish remover").  However, as in German or Dutch, very long, though quite impractical, examples like produktionsstyrningssystemsprogramvaruuppdatering ("production controller system software update") are possible but seldom this ungainly. Compound nouns take their gender from the head, which in Swedish is always the last morpheme. A very productive method for créating new verbs is the adding of -a to an existing noun, as in bil ("car") and bila ("to drive (recreationally)").

See also list of false friends between Swedish and English.