Search AnkiWeb for "Swedish" and you get 46 decks, so this ranking covers all but one of those an English speaker can use. Of the first 45 AnkiWeb lists, 11 aren't for English speakers learning Swedish. Six are for speakers of German, Finnish or Russian, two teach Spanish and Ukrainian to Swedes, and one teaches Swedish Sign Language. The other two are a driving-theory deck and a map of Sweden's counties. Ratings won't help you choose either: the most-rated Swedish deck has 41.
That's why we developed a framework for choosing a good Anki deck and built an open-source AI tool to evaluate decks against it.
We ran the first 30 decks that English speakers can learn Swedish from through our analyzer. A third of them are word lists for one textbook, Rivstart: ten decks from A1 to C1, scoring between 32.9 and 48.9. They copy the book's glossary, none scored above 5 out of 10 for sentences, and seven have no audio. They're useful alongside the book and not much without it.
If you aren't following a course, start with 500 most common Swedish words at #1. It's in frequency order, most notes have a short example sentence, and nearly every card has audio. It has only 454 notes, so plan on a second deck after it: 8000+ most common swedish words at #6 continues in frequency order with audio, though with almost no sentences. For more sentences, Swedish Sentences at #4 runs from easiest to hardest but has no audio, and svensk - 0 at #5 has audio on nearly every card. Pimsleur at #2 is worth studying only alongside the Pimsleur course.
None of the 30 reached a grade of Good. The top score is 68.5, and 23 of the 30 scored below 50. Here are the results:
| # | Deck | Score | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 500 most common Swedish wordsmixed | 68 | Mixed |
| 2 | Pimsleur Swedishmixed | 64 | Mixed |
| 3 | Duolingo Swedishvocabulary list | 60 | Mixed |
| 4 | Swedish Sentencessentence deck | 59 | Mixed |
| 5 | svensk - 0sentence deck | 58 | Mixed |
| 6 | 8000+ most common swedish wordsvocabulary list | 53 | Weak |
| 7 | Swedish Vocabulary A1–C2 — Zero to Herovocabulary list | 51 | Weak |
| 8 | Rivstart Complete A1+A2 Swedish-English Svenska-Engelskavocabulary list | 49 | Weak |
| 9 | Your First 625 Words in Swedish - Part 3vocabulary list · part 3 of 3 | 48 | Weak |
| 10 | Your First 625 Words in Swedish - Part 1 (updated)mixed · part 1 of 3 | 48 | Weak |
A frequency-based Swedish vocabulary deck with short example sentences and audio on nearly every note; worth studying as an A1-A2 word builder, not as a course.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- A1-A2 learners building a core of roughly 500 high-frequency words
- Learners who want an audio clip on every card (check the quality yourself first)
- Learners who already have a grammar resource and want vocabulary drilled in tiny sentences such as 'Jag är väldigt hungrig (väldigt)'
Not for you if
- Learners who need explicit grammar explanations; the deck gives none after the opening
- Anyone who wants connected text, dialogue or a story to follow
- Learners aiming past A2 or wanting wide vocabulary coverage; it teaches 26% of the top 2,000 words
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The deck's strength is word selection and card format. In the measurements it teaches 89 of the 100 most common Swedish words and 272 of ranks 101-500, and each tenth of the deck draws 71-94% of its new words from the top 1,000. Most cards are short, natural lines that isolate one target word, such as 'Jag är väldigt hungrig (väldigt)' or 'Vänta på bussen(vänta)', and 73% of sentences add at most one new word. The opening teaches articles, 'är', present tense and plurals in a visible order ('En man äter ett äpple', 'Hon äter', 'Kvinnor'). Almost every note has a recording. The weaknesses are structural. After the opening, the deck is a list of unconnected lines with no explanations, tags or dialogue, so you get vocabulary but little help seeing how Swedish works. Some cards are fragments ('Min älskling', 'Just for your sake'). The same objects recur (fish, bus, apple, bread), which narrows the contexts you see. A few odd words arrive early for their frequency: 'sked' at 13% of the deck and 'busshållplats' at 26%. Several very common words are absent from the measured list, including 'ut', 'in', 'över', 'varför' and 'igen'. The marked-word convention is also ambiguous: it is not clear whether you should produce the whole sentence or just the bracketed word. All of this is based on a sample of about 90 of 454 notes.
Use it if you are an A1-A2 learner who wants a few hundred high-frequency words with sound, and you will pair it with a grammar source or a course. It suits you if you are comfortable with short decontextualized cards and with English-to-Swedish and Swedish-to-English recall. Skip it if you want a structured grammar path, connected reading or dialogue. Skip it too if you want vocabulary beyond the core: it covers 46% of the top 1,000 words and 26% of the top 2,000, so it will not carry you past the early stages.
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A 486-note companion to Pimsleur Swedish Level 1 with audio on every note, solid for the first few lessons but thin on grammar, context and sentence build-up, so it works best as a drill sheet beside the audio course.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Learners currently doing Pimsleur Swedish who want a lesson-by-lesson review set
- Absolute beginners who want a first 400 or so words and travel phrases with audio on every note
- People who want to drill spoken phrases for restaurants, shops, directions and greetings, such as "Ska vi åka spårvagn?" and "Kan jag få en gin och tonic?"
Not for you if
- Anyone using it as their only Swedish resource; it has no grammar explanations and no dialogues
- Learners who want to cover the most common 1,000 to 2,000 Swedish words quickly, since only 26% of the top 1,000 is taught
- Learners who need sentences that grow gradually, because the Bonus Pack items often bring in two to five unfamiliar words at once
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The deck does a few things well. It opens sensibly: the first 30 notes are jag, du, ja, nej, tack, hej, men, och, med, and the measurements back this up, with 82 of the 100 most common Swedish words taught and the first tenth drawing 93% of its new words from the top 1,000. Every note has its own audio file. The Lesson Bonus Pack sentences are natural phrasebook Swedish, such as "Vi har gott om tid" and "Jag har ingen aning vad du pratar om." The weaknesses are structural. Three quarters of the notes are single words or short phrases with no example sentence, and the cards carry no grammar explanation. Forms like "affär / affären / affärerna", "kaffet" and "open (pl)" appear as separate flashcards without a word on how they relate. Frequency coverage is thin: 264 of the top 1,000 words, with common words such as av, sig, efter, under, även and hem never taught. Meanwhile there are many separate number cards (fyrtiosju, fyrtioåtta, trettiofyra, åttioåtta) and niche words like vrålhungrig, glutenfri, nykterist and apelsinjuice. Some English prompts are too bare to pin down one answer: "will" maps to kommer, "just" to bara, "then" to då, "far" to långt. The Bonus Pack sentences also jump in difficulty. "I don't care one way or another" is in the Lesson 5 pack, early in the deck, with 3 of its 6 Swedish words new, and "Will we be able to make it for seven o'clock?" appears in the Lesson 25 pack with 1 of 7 new.
Use it if you are already working through the Pimsleur Swedish audio lessons and want a recall and review set that follows the lesson order. It also suits an absolute beginner who wants survival phrases with sound and will get grammar and context elsewhere. Skip it if you want a standalone course, want to learn how Swedish sentences are built, or want a deck that covers the most frequent words efficiently. The deck is a vocabulary list matched to audio lessons, and without those lessons it leaves out most of what teaches the language.
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A 3,446-card word list from Duolingo's Swedish course, with audio on almost every card, that works as a vocabulary review companion but not as a standalone way to learn Swedish.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Learners already taking Duolingo's Swedish course who want a spaced-repetition list of its vocabulary
- Beginners at A1-A2 who want recorded audio on nearly every card, such as 'en bok' and 'kvinnor'
- Anyone who wants to cover the core Swedish vocabulary, since 85% of the top 1,000 words are taught
Not for you if
- Learners who want to study from example sentences or graded reading, since only about 4% of the cards are sentences
- Anyone who wants grammar explained, since plurals, definites and the passive appear as bare forms with only a part-of-speech label
- Learners who want vocabulary in strict frequency order
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The deck's strengths are audio and core vocabulary coverage. 3,375 of 3,446 notes have a sound file, and the deck teaches 99 of the 100 most common Swedish words and 846 of the top 1,000. The Swedish and English in the sample are correct. The weakness is format: 96% of the notes are single words or two-word chunks such as 'en bok' / 'a ‹book›', 'jag har läst' / 'I have read' and 'hej då' / 'bye'. Only 131 notes are sentences of four words or more, and most of those are grammar drills clustered near the end, like 'Jag hoppades att du skulle komma.' The grammar syllabus (plurals, definite forms, present perfect, comparatives, passive) shows up only as bare forms, with no explanation. Selection follows Duolingo's topics rather than frequency. Idag, igår, imorgon and okej are never taught, while fläskkött and sköldpadda appear within the first 3% of the deck. The last tenth is mostly rare bonus vocabulary, 55% of it ranked past 5,000. The default order also puts the Level 3 basics (en flicka, hon, han, och, ett äpple) at the very end, after everything else.
Use it if you are working through Duolingo's Swedish course, or something like it, and want a vocabulary review list with native audio for the first 1,000 or so words. It suits beginners and low intermediates who will add their own sentences and grammar from other sources. Skip it if you want to learn from sentences, if you want a frequency-ordered core, or if you are an advanced learner. Past the first thousand words you are mostly looking at topic lists such as animals, medical terms and politics, and many of the words in them are rare.
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A graded list of 3,001 short Swedish sentence cards that gives a true beginner a sound core vocabulary and a clear difficulty ramp, but with no audio, no context, and some wrong English glosses.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Absolute beginners who want high-frequency words and basic frames (är, har, vill, kan, vad, var) in tiny sentences
- Learners who already have a grammar resource and need drills that repeat a pattern with one word changed
- Learners who will add their own audio or shadow the cards with a separate listening source
Not for you if
- Anyone who needs real B1 content; the sample's longest sentences are still four or five simple words
- Learners who want to train listening or pronunciation from the deck itself, since no card has audio
- Learners who need connected dialogue, stories or topic-based situations
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The progression is the strength. The sample opens with tightly controlled drills on one frame at a time ("Är jag?", "Jag är.", "Är du?", "Har du?", "Har jag?"), and 95-100% of sentences in every tenth add at most one new word. Vocabulary starts with the most common words: 96 of the top 100 are taught, mostly early. The Swedish text in the sample is clean. The weaknesses are the English side and the lack of context. Some glosses are literal enough to teach the wrong meaning: "Hej då" is "Hi then", "Nu drar vi" is "Now we draw", "Inte det?" is "Is not it?", "En sak i taget" is "One case at a time". 59% of notes are single words or short phrases, with no dialogue or situation around them. The deck has 480 distinct words and covers only 40% of the top 1,000. Nothing explains the grammar the drills show, and the deck has no audio or images.
Use this as a first-month deck, together with a grammar source and your own audio. It suits someone starting from zero who wants a lot of very short reps on the commonest words and patterns. Despite the stated A1-B1, the last cards in the sample ("Känns det bättre nu?", "Jag ska vara ärlig.") are still short and simple, so treat it as A1 to early A2. Skip it if you want to hear Swedish, read connected text, or build the next thousand words, or if you will not check the English yourself. Half the notes repeat the other half's sentences in the opposite direction, so budget for that.
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A 5,229-note Swedish sentence deck built from subtitled TV and video lines with audio on nearly every card; useful as listening and reading material if you can tolerate some bad pairs, but not a reliable core course.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Learners with roughly A2 Swedish who want spoken, subtitle-style sentences with audio
- People who already follow Swedish TV or video and want extra sentences with a vocabulary spread across the top 2,000 words
- Learners who will use it alongside a grammar resource and treat the deck as supplementary input
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners; the first notes drop four to six new words at once and lean on slang
- Anyone who wants grammar introduced in a planned order with explanations
- Learners who cannot check a Swedish line against its English prompt and would absorb typos and mismatches
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The uploader calls this a test deck and doesn't describe it further. The sentences are lines from TV shows and videos, and some English prompts don't match their Swedish, so check a card against the audio when it seems off.
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The deck's strength is volume of natural spoken Swedish with audio: 5,226 of 5,229 notes carry a sound file, 91% of notes are sentences of four or more words, and sentences average 7.3 words. The vocabulary is frequency-shaped, covering 925 of the top 1,000 words and 1,600 of the top 2,000. Difficulty settles after the opening: the new-word rate falls from 25.7% to 8.8% by the halfway point, and 86-92% of sentences in the later parts add at most one new word. The weaknesses are in the content itself. The first 30 notes are slang- and TV-driven, and several drop four to six unfamiliar words at once (#5 "Vi ska ha kul", #11 "Jag var hemmamamma och bakade bara till «kalas»"). Some Swedish lines do not match their English prompts: #9 "Favourite pastime?" is paired with "Vad gjorde vi på fritiden?", and #2624 "The area was cordoned off well back from the murder scene" is paired with "Garda hade spärrat av område." There are typos such as "fraga" for "fråga" and "eftet", and rare topic words appear (handfängsel, kosing, pokerspelare). Nothing in the deck teaches grammar; constructions just arrive in subtitle order with no explanation.
Use this if you already have basic Swedish and want a large pool of real spoken sentences to listen to, read and type, and you are willing to notice and correct the occasional wrong card. It fits learners who like mining from media and can treat the deck as supplementary input. Skip it if you are a true beginner who needs a controlled start, if you want grammar built up step by step, or if you cannot spot errors in a language you are still learning, since a wrong spelling or mismatched translation will be absorbed as correct.
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A 8,327-card Memrise word list for Swedish with audio on nearly every card: worth studying for roughly its first 4,000 cards as a vocabulary supplement, not as a course.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Learners who already study Swedish elsewhere and want a frequency-led word list to build vocabulary alongside it
- Beginners who want the highest-frequency function words and basic nouns, verbs and adjectives in the first few hundred cards
- Learners who value a recorded pronunciation on almost every card (8,303 of 8,327 notes have audio)
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need a course, explained grammar or sentences
- Learners who want to see words in context: only 1% of notes are sentences and the sampled Example fields were empty
- Anyone who wants reading or listening recognition practice, since the only card is English to Swedish
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The deck's strength is its front end and its audio. The opening cards are the words a beginner needs (i, att ha, det, en, som, på, av, för, att kunna, jag, inte, med, till), and the measurements back this up: 99 of the top 100 and 94% of the top 1,000 Swedish words are taught, with 80% of the first tenth's new words coming from the top 1,000. Each card teaches one headword, glosses are accurate in the sample, and gender articles (en/ett) are built into the nouns. Audio is attached to 8,303 of 8,327 notes, though I can't judge its quality. The weaknesses are structural. Only 1% of notes are sentences, and the Example fields were empty in the sample, so you never see a word used in a Swedish sentence. The sample also shows no dialogue and no grammar sequencing. Only the English glosses sometimes carry a short gap-fill fragment such as [jag bor ~ Sverige]. Past about the fourth tenth, the deck stops being 'most common': by the eighth tenth, 72% of new words rank past 5,000, and in the last tenth it is 95%. The sample's final cards are en bergskam, en skrynkla and en kalsong. The sample also shows the two most frequent words, 'och' and 'att vara', as the very last cards. The deck as measured counts them as taught early, so treat that as a sequencing oddity in the file, not a missing word. Some rare items turn up early too (åta, ämna, ätt in the first 4%).
Use this if you already have a textbook, course or tutor supplying sentences and grammar, and you want a large, audio-backed vocabulary list to drill. It suits a late-beginner to intermediate learner who is comfortable with recall from English prompts. Don't use it as your only resource, and don't use it if you want to read or listen to Swedish in context, since every card is a single English-to-Swedish production card. If you want the 'top 8,000' promised by the title, expect only roughly the first half to be core vocabulary; the later cards are better treated as optional or reading-driven extras.
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A large Kelly-list Swedish vocabulary deck with full audio and good coverage of common words, but its default order, unchecked machine-made content and errors in the Inflections field make it a supplement to study with care, not a course.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Intermediate and advanced learners who want to widen their vocabulary along the Kelly frequency list, including the A2-C2 range
- Learners who can check an odd form or sentence against a dictionary and will suspend or edit bad notes
- Learners who want a Swedish-to-English and English-to-Swedish recall drill with audio on every card
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners, who cannot tell a wrong comparative or an ungrammatical sentence from a correct one
- Learners who want a grammar syllabus or structures introduced in a deliberate order
- Learners who want stories, dialogues or situations that tie words together
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The vocabulary choice is the deck's strength. It teaches 976 of the 1,000 most common Swedish words and 1,916 of the top 2,000, and nearly every note has an audio file and an example sentence of about six words, such as "Hon är arton år gammal." The problems are in the order and the content checks. The deck opens with rank-8,500 idioms ("ana ugglor i mossen", "göra en höna av en fjäder") before it reaches "andra" and the numbers. Frequency rank also restarts inside each part-of-speech subdeck, so the cards you meet jump between basic and rare words: "en ätt" at rank 437 shows a Kungssången verse, and "en utbildningsminister" is tagged A1 at rank 78. The content shows signs of unchecked machine and dictionary generation. "andra" is given the comparative "andrare", "fem" the comparative "färre", "miljon" the plural "miljona", and "hundra" the gloss "(colloquial) absolutely sure". "Han hade stark troende i framtiden" and "Han mottaga brevet med glädje" are ungrammatical, and "Jag tappade mitt ting på golvet" does not teach the word. Some glosses are long dictionary text, such as the 29-word entry for "en sparv". There is no grammar sequence, no connected context and no images.
Use it if you already read some Swedish, can spot a bad sentence, and want a frequency-based word bank to work through by CEFR tag, with audio on every card. It suits an intermediate or advanced learner who treats it as a reference, skips or fixes bad notes, and takes grammar and reading from another source. Do not use it as a first Swedish course or if you will trust every field. The Inflections field and the sentences can teach you a wrong form, and a beginner has no way to tell which ones.
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A 3,046-note Swedish word list that follows the Rivstart A1-A2 textbook and carries audio on most of its cards; it is worth studying only if you own the book and will fix the errors as you go.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Learners working through Rivstart A1-A2 who want the chapter glossaries as flashcards, with page references
- Beginners who want gender and plural hints on each noun, for example 'flaska (-n, -or, -orna)'
- Learners who want audio on most cards in the first chapters and are happy to add it for the rest
Not for you if
- Self-studiers without the textbook, who get no sentences, dialogue or grammar explanation
- Learners who want a frequency-ordered core vocabulary; the order follows textbook topics
- Anyone who wants example sentences to learn how words combine; only about 70 notes are sentences
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The deck's strength is coverage tied to a real course. Chapters 1-20 are split into subdecks 00-20, each card carries a page label, and in the sample the core vocabulary is sound: 95 of the 100 most common Swedish words appear early, and gender and plural hints such as 'katt (-en, -er, -erna)' are useful. About 92% of the notes in the audio note type have a sound file. The weaknesses are material. 98% of notes are bare words or short phrases, so you learn nothing about how a word behaves in a sentence. The sample also shows steady carelessness in the English glosses and hints: 'singel' glossed 'ingle', 'myggmedel' glossed 'moquito', 'ge' glossed 'respons respond, react', 'gränsa' glossed 'till border on', 'vara trött' glossed 'på be tired of', and the headword 'operationssjukssköterska' misspelled. Topic chapters also bring in rare words such as 'tandpetare', 'läsplatta' and 'systemkamera' alongside basics, while common words like 'ju', 'även', 'innan' and 'först' are never taught.
Use it as a companion to the Rivstart textbook: it lets you drill the book's glossary lists with audio for the first chapters. Do not use it as a stand-alone course, as your only source of example sentences, or as a way to learn grammar. If you cannot yet spot a bad gloss, expect to memorize a few wrong ones, so check anything that looks odd against the book or a dictionary.
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A picture-and-audio vocabulary deck, built as one alphabetical slice (roughly F to K in the sample) of a 625-word English picture-word list, that is only worth studying as a supplement and not as a course.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Learners who already have a core course and want picturable concrete vocabulary (kitchen, hair, fire, hotel, hat) with a picture and audio on almost every card
- Learners who like personalized, culturally flavored example sentences and are happy to read above-level Swedish
- People who will edit cards and suspend or reorder notes to suit themselves
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need the most common words first, since the deck leaves out vad, nu, hur, mycket, nej and tid
- Anyone who wants a structured path, since there is no grammar progression, lessons, subdecks or tags
- Learners who want one consistent recall direction per card
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The deck does well on media: 398 of 404 notes have a sound file and 403 have an image. Each word gets its own card plus an example sentence with the target word marked, such as «Följa», «Kök» and «Eld», and the Swedish sentences read naturally and carry some personality ("Köttbullar är bra «mat».", "Gotland är en «ö» känd för sina raukar"). It does badly on sequencing and selection. The first 30 notes introduce 75.6% new words, and sentence notes arrive before the word they illustrate: #3 puts «värme» in a 9-word sentence where 8 words are new, and #2 packs two sentences with 13 of 13 words new. Only 18% of sentences add at most one new word. The deck teaches 222 of the 1,000 most common Swedish words, and never uses vad, nu, hur, mycket or nej. Meanwhile an A1-A2 learner meets katastrofal, dräpa, ökänd, surströmming, fiol and välutrustad. It has no grammar progression, and the English glosses are deliberately word-for-word, so you will sometimes see odd English like "Believe you on (in) «God»?".
Use it if you already have a core beginner course or a frequency-based deck and want concrete nouns and verbs with pictures and recordings, or you enjoy the pop-culture and Sweden-flavored sentences. Skip it if you want a deck that carries a true beginner from zero, builds sentences step by step, or covers the highest-frequency words first. It is also a poor fit if you want clean cards without editing, since the direction of the cards varies and some notes are duplicates.
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Part 3 of a 3-part deck. Each part is ranked on its own score: part 1 48, #10 · part 2 45, #15 · part 3 (this one) 48.
A homemade, alphabet-ordered Swedish picture-and-audio vocabulary deck with charming sentences, but no teaching order and some real errors; use it as a supplement, not a course.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- A learner who already has a textbook or course and wants picture-and-audio cards for concrete nouns, colors and common verbs.
- Someone who enjoys Swedish pop culture and trivia (ABBA, Pettson och Findus, Astrid Lindgren) and will remember words through those hooks.
- A learner willing to edit the deck, deleting weak cards and replacing pictures with ones that make sense to them.
Not for you if
- A true beginner who wants a guided path from the first words to simple sentences.
- Anyone who needs the core function words and everyday conversation basics (yes, no, or, also, must, where).
- Learners who want grammar explained or introduced in a deliberate order.
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What it does well: every note has audio and an image, and many example sentences are natural and memorable, such as 'Ett «äpple» om dagen är bra för magen' and 'Titanic hette en «båt» som sjönk år 1912'. Cultural notes on Kalles Kaviar, Kronofogden and Astrid Lindgren add real value. What it does badly: nothing is sequenced for a beginner. The first card is a sentence with 8 new words ('Två «adjektiv» för banan är 'gul' och 'avlång''), and the order seems to follow the English alphabet (adult, alive, animal, apple, art, back, bad, beef), not frequency or difficulty. The deck teaches only 259 of the 1,000 most common words and never uses 'eller', 'där', 'också', 'måste', 'ja' or 'nej'. The same material also appears as reversed pairs: 'Rasmus på Luffen', the Gandalf beard sentence, the art sentence and the ABBA sentence each show up twice with the languages swapped. That is why the file reports 0% repeated notes even though much of the sample is repeated. Errors turn up too. The note on 'biljon' says it has 18 zeros, but Swedish 'biljon' is 10^12. 'Gärna' and 'hjärna' are said to be pronounced the same. 'Sovrum»met' and 'kontors«stol»ar' split the word in the marked text. The English side has typos and grammar slips such as 'Zombies gladly wants'.
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Part 1 of a 3-part deck. Each part is ranked on its own score: part 1 (this one) 48 · part 2 45, #15 · part 3 48, #9.
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1Duolingo Swedish100% positive of 22 AnkiWeb ratings 60 Mixedour #3
Number 3 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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2Swedish Sentences93% positive of 41 AnkiWeb ratings 59 Mixedour #4
Number 4 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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3Your First 625 Words in Swedish - Part 1 (updated)94% positive of 31 AnkiWeb ratings 48 Weakour #10
Number 10 in our ranking. Part 1 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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48000+ most common swedish words94% positive of 18 AnkiWeb ratings 53 Weakour #6
Number 6 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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5Rivstart A1A2 - Swedish & English92% positive of 12 AnkiWeb ratings 36 Poorour #28
A chapter-by-chapter vocabulary list for the Rivstart A1A2 textbook that is useful only as a companion to the course, and not worth studying as a standalone Swedish deck.
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Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The deck's strength is that it stays close to its source: each note carries a chapter and page number, and the Conjugation field gives inflection endings such as skriva (skriver, skrev, skrivit) and kock (-en, -ar, -arna). That helps if you are working through the book. The weaknesses are bigger. 97% of the notes are single words or short phrases, so you never see a word used in a sentence. There is no audio and no images. The vocabulary follows the book's topics rather than frequency. In the sample, konsonant turns up in the first 30 cards and ättika, älgbulle and meteorolog appear later, while common words such as ju, även, innan, eftersom and hitta are never taught. Only 60% of the top 1,000 Swedish words are covered. The notes also come in scrambled order: the opening is Kapitel 1 in random page order, and the later samples jump between Kapitel 12, 3, 6 and 9. A few cards have slips, such as bh glossed as bra, vattna glossed as 'blommor water the flowers', and endings typed into the Swedish field on tjejkompis.
Use this if you own Rivstart, are taking a course built on it, and want a quick way to drill each chapter's glossary. You will have to supply the sentences, audio and grammar from the book itself. Don't use it if you want to learn Swedish from the deck alone, if you want to understand how words and endings work in sentences, or if you want the most useful words first. You would be memorizing isolated English-to-Swedish pairs, many of them tied to the textbook's topics.
Worth it if
- Students currently using the Rivstart A1A2 textbook who want each chapter's glossary as flashcards
- Learners who will pair the cards with the book's own dialogues and exercises
- Beginners who want inflection endings (noun plurals, verb forms) shown next to each word
- Learners willing to study one Kapitel subdeck at a time rather than the whole deck at once
Not for you if
- Self-learners without the textbook who need example sentences to see how words are used
- Anyone who wants audio for pronunciation or listening practice
- Learners who want the most frequent Swedish words first, since many everyday words are never taught
- Learners who need structured grammar progression, since the deck has none beyond the ending field
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6Rivstart Complete A1+A2 Swedish-English Svenska-Engelska100% positive of 5 AnkiWeb ratings 49 Weakour #8
Number 8 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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7Svenska Verb100% positive of 5 AnkiWeb ratings 38 Poorour #24
A 304-card Swedish verb list with English glosses and principal parts that is useful as a supplementary conjugation drill but not worth studying as a main deck.
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Verdict
Every card gives you a Swedish verb, English glosses, the four principal parts (for example "Bryt!, Bryter, Bröt, Brutit") and a conjugation group number, which is the information you need to learn Swedish verbs. Many cards add dictionary-style example phrases with translations, such as "hon slapp betala (she didn't have to pay)". The weaknesses are serious. The order follows no frequency or difficulty logic: nysa (sneeze) is card 28, while vara, se and springa are cards 301 to 303. The sample also has errors that could teach you a wrong form: "Staraffat" for straffat, "Skäcker" for släcker, "Konrade" for kontrade, sätta given as "Sätte" in the past, and "try on a skirt" for "prova en klänning". Roughly half the cards are bare forms with no example. Some examples have no translation (Bestå Av, Märka, Kontra), and the rest lean toward news-style or idiom-heavy phrasing. There is no audio and no images, and the deck's own page says it is not 100% correct.
Worth it if
- Learners at A2 or above who already know basic Swedish and want a reference for verb forms and conjugation groups
- Anyone who will check forms against a dictionary and is willing to correct cards as they go
- Readers of news-style Swedish who want exposure to mid- and low-frequency verbs like avslöja, utvärdera and föreslå
- Learners who want a verb list to import and restructure, for example by splitting it by conjugation group
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners, since the first cards are skilja, antyda and skydda rather than the core verbs, and the deck teaches almost no function words
- Anyone who needs audio or listening practice
- Learners who want sentence-based study or a course-like progression
- Anyone who cannot spot a typo in a conjugation string and would memorize it as written
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8Rivstart B1+B2 (ordlista)100% positive of 4 AnkiWeb ratings 42 Weakour #20
Rivstart B1+B2 is a clean, book-ordered glossary of about 4,900 Swedish words and phrases, worth using only as a companion to the Rivstart textbook, not as a standalone way to learn Swedish.
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Verdict
The deck keeps the textbook's chapter order and tags each card with chapter and page. In the sample, the Swedish field usually gives the headword, and the inflection-ending field ("-n, sidor, sidorna", "-r, -de, -t", "väljer, valde, valt") shows gender and verb forms, which suits Swedish. Common words generally arrive before rarer ones: the top 100 are 98% covered, and new words from the top 1,000 fall from 51% in the first tenth to 5% in the last. The weaknesses are structural. 95% of notes are single words or short phrases, so there are almost no example sentences and no grammar explanation. There is no audio or imagery. Selection follows the book's glossaries, not frequency. The opening has soffpotatis and hurtbulle, and hushållsarbete appears after only 308 words. Meanwhile 23% of the top 1,000 words and 35% of the top 2,000 are never taught, including behöva, folk, mellan, ännu, ibland, dessutom and viktig. The sample also shows errors: a garbled inflection ("väglöäää’äett" for vägleda), typos ("sreenplay", "i to speculate"), and imponerade glossed as "impressive", when the form means "impressed". Also, sida appears twice with different glosses ("book page" and "side"), and the reverse card gives no cue to tell them apart.
Use this if you are working through Rivstart B1+B2 and want the chapter vocabulary as flashcards to review after each chapter. You get a ready-made, chapter-tagged list and can study it without typing anything. Skip it if you want to build a general B1-B2 Swedish vocabulary, learn words in sentences, or train your ear. The deck gives you glosses and endings, not usage. Pair it with the book's texts and a separate source of audio and example sentences.
Worth it if
- Learners actively working through Rivstart B1+B2 who want chapter-by-chapter glossary review
- Intermediate learners who already read Swedish and need quick gloss-and-inflection recall
- People who will study with the textbook open for the readings and exercises that give the words context
Not for you if
- Beginners, since the deck starts at B1 with items like soffpotatis and hurtbulle and has no scaffolding
- Learners who want to see words used in sentences, as only about 5% of notes are sentences and most of those are set phrases
- Anyone who wants a frequency-ordered core vocabulary, since common words like behöva, folk, ännu and dessutom never appear
- Learners who need listening practice or pronunciation, since no card has audio
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9500 most common Swedish words100% positive of 4 AnkiWeb ratings 68 Mixedour #1
Number 1 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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10Your First 625 Words in Swedish - Part 386% positive of 7 AnkiWeb ratings 48 Weakour #9
Number 9 in our ranking. Part 3 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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11Swedish-English Kelly: a frequency-based vocabulary wordlist100% positive of 3 AnkiWeb ratings 31 Poorour #32
Swedish Kelly is a bare 8,425-word frequency list with unchecked machine glosses and no sentences, audio or images, so it works as a word inventory but not as a course.
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Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The deck's strength is coverage. It teaches 966 of the 1,000 most common Swedish words on the reference list and 1,883 of the top 2,000, and nearly all of the top 500 arrive in the first quarter. Nouns and verbs carry their en/ett/att markers, so you learn gender and the infinitive marker from the start. The weaknesses are larger. 99% of notes are single words or short phrases, and the Example field is empty in the sample, so you never see a word used. The English glosses come from Google Translate, and the sample shows the errors: 'be (el. bedja)' is glossed 'ask (electricity. pray)', the verb 'syra' is glossed 'acid', 'kvitt' is 'receipted', and 'humör' is 'humor' rather than 'mood'. The opening is poorly ordered, and the A1 label overstates it. The first 30 notes are numerals, country names and measure words ('arton', 'decimeter', 'hekto', 'inrikesminister', 'kvällsmål') in alphabetical order. 'Hekto' ranks around 17,000 on the frequency list. The CEFR tags are six equal 1,404-note frequency bands, not assessed levels. Frequency ordering also loosens with depth. By part 8, 72% of new words fall outside the top 5,000, and part 10 is 96% past rank 5,000.
Use it if you already have a way to learn Swedish through sentences, such as a textbook, graded reading or a course, and want a checklist of common words to add and check against. It suits an intermediate learner who can spot a bad gloss and who will edit cards as they go. Skip it as a first deck, or if you want to understand and produce sentences, hear pronunciation, or trust the English side without checking. A beginner who studies it in order will start with numerals and unit prefixes, see no usage, and absorb some wrong meanings.
Worth it if
- Intermediate learners who already read or study Swedish elsewhere and want a frequency-based list of words to fill gaps
- Checking your vocabulary against the Kelly list's top 1,000 to 2,000 words
- Learners willing to edit glosses and add their own example sentences while they study
- Readers who want en/ett/att gender and infinitive markers drilled alongside each noun and verb
Not for you if
- Complete beginners looking for a first deck, since the A1 stretch opens with 'arton', 'decimeter' and 'hekto'
- Anyone who needs sentences, dialogue or any usage context to learn from
- Learners who need to hear Swedish, since no card has audio
- Learners who want a trustworthy English side without checking it, given glosses like 'syra' = 'acid' and 'be' = 'ask (electricity. pray)'
- Learners who want grammar explained; the only grammar here is a word-class label and en/ett/att
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12Pimsleur Swedish100% positive of 3 AnkiWeb ratings 64 Mixedour #2
Number 2 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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13Your First 625 Words in Swedish - Part 283% positive of 6 AnkiWeb ratings 45 Weakour #15
Part 2 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.
A partial, unfinished Swedish vocabulary deck covering mostly English words starting with C, D and E, with audio and pictures on nearly every card, but with no teaching order and a lot of repeated material; worth mining, not worth following as a course.
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Verdict
The deck's strength is its card format: 293 of 296 notes have audio and 295 have an image, and the Swedish in the sample is mostly natural and sometimes interesting, like 'Att ta ett dopp' on a summer evening or 'Norden' glossed as 'The North'. Its weaknesses are structural. The sample follows the English alphabet (corner, cry, cut, deep, dress, ear, east, egg, eleven, energy) rather than difficulty or usefulness, so 'diamant', 'folkmassa' and 'utomjording' turn up long before 'från', 'eller', 'ja' or 'nej', which are never taught. Only 21% of the top 1,000 Swedish words are covered. Sentences often bring in 5 to 9 unfamiliar words at once; only 11% add one or fewer. Much of the deck is also the same content twice: 'Kväll / Evening' appears again as 'Evening / Kväll', and 'A normal room has four «corner»s.' appears in both directions. The 296 notes are therefore closer to 150 distinct items. Some cards have errors ('kyrgogården', 'Contrakt'), some tie to dated news (O.J. Simpson, Trump), and the English is deliberately word-for-word.
Use it as a picture-and-audio bank of concrete nouns and verbs from the C–E stretch of the Fluent Forever list, if you already have a base in Swedish and are willing to edit. Don't use it as your main course, to build a core vocabulary in frequency order, or to learn grammar, because there is no path through it and no grammar teaching. I can't judge the audio or pictures themselves, so play a few cards before trusting them.
Worth it if
- Learners who already know basic Swedish and want audio-plus-image cards for concrete words like 'ko', 'öra', 'kopp', 'ägg', 'hörn' and 'kläder'
- People who like the Fluent Forever method and will swap in their own pictures, as the author invites
- Learners willing to prune and edit a deck by hand, such as suspending reversed duplicates and fixing typos
- Anyone who wants a few cultural notes on Sweden (Norden, Star Wars day on 4 May, Drottninggatan) attached to vocabulary
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need a clear path from the most common words onward
- Learners who want a frequency-based core vocabulary; basics like 'från', 'eller', 'ja', 'nej' and 'aldrig' never appear
- Anyone who wants grammar taught in a planned order
- People who want a finished, polished deck; the author says it is unfinished and it covers only part of the word list
- Learners who dislike reviewing the same item in both directions as separate cards
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14Swedish Vocabulary A1–C2 — Zero to Hero83% positive of 6 AnkiWeb ratings 51 Weakour #7
Number 7 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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151000 Most Common Swedish Words80% positive of 5 AnkiWeb ratings 34 Poorour #29
A 1,000-card Swedish word list of bare one-word glosses with no sentences, audio or grammar, so it is a weak core resource and only marginally worth studying as a supplement.
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Verdict
The one real strength is the order at the start: all of the 100 most common Swedish words are taught, with a median first appearance at 10% of the deck, and the cards are clean (hej / hello, jag / I, du / you). Beyond that the list is weak. In the sample, crude vocabulary lands early and often (knulla, kuk and fitta at #18-23, before kan and ska), and rare words like sötnos (rank 9,248) arrive at 8% of the deck. Only 57% of the top 1,000 words are taught, and common words such as folk, typ, exempel, minut and förälder never appear. Every card is a single word, with no sentences, audio, grammar notes or lemma field. The glosses are thin or off in places: ska is 'should', låter is 'let to', jo is 'YES', vanligt is 'plain', and må is 'feel'. Inflected forms like gått, läser and knullar sit next to their base forms with no link between them.
This deck suits someone who already studies Swedish from a course or tutor and wants extra recognition drills on high-frequency words, or someone who likes colloquial and crude vocabulary and will check glosses elsewhere. Do not use it as your main route into Swedish, and do not use it if you need to learn to read or speak sentences, hear the language, or trust each gloss. Its description's claim that 1,000 words makes you fluent is not supported by anything on the cards.
Worth it if
- Learners already working through a course who want extra drilling on the first few hundred most common words (roughly the first 100 to 250 cards)
- Beginners who can look up each word's meaning, gender and sentence use elsewhere
- People who want casual, slangy and crude vocabulary alongside basics
- Anyone who wants a plain, uncluttered recognition deck they can edit
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners looking for a self-contained path from A1
- Learners who need example sentences, grammar explanations or reading practice
- Anyone who wants audio or a pronunciation model built into the deck
- Learners who need accurate, context-aware glosses for words with several meanings, like ska, låter, lär or ben
- Anyone wanting broad coverage of the top 1,000 or top 2,000 words (the deck covers 57% and 37%)
- Learners who don't want crude vocabulary in their early reviews
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16Swedish Core 100 - Basic words (EN SV with audio)100% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 44 Weakour #16
Swedish Core 100 is a 101-word themed picture-and-audio list with no sentences, and it is not worth studying as a main A1 deck.
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Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
What it does well: every card has a recording and a picture, and the cards you can see are clean and correct. The sample has days (fredag, tisdag, onsdag), months (oktober, juli, maj), numbers (ett, fem, nio, tio) and stock phrases (Tack., Hej då!, God morgon., Trevligt att träffas.). The translations in the sample are right. It does badly on content: the deck measures 0 sentences of four or more words and teaches 79 of the 1,000 most common Swedish words. Among the 40 most common words it never uses are och, i, på, inte, som, med, jag-type function words and basic verbs like vara and ha. The order is shuffled by theme rather than built up. Rare words such as försäljare (card 9) and programmerare turn up before basics like och or inte. Each word appears twice, once per direction, with the two cards scattered far apart (liten at #8 and #17, komma at #53 and #58). A few fields also carry scraped website text such as '(View the latest special offer for SwedishPod101.com)'.
Use it if you are a true beginner who wants a short, pronounceable set of days, months, numbers, body parts and greetings, or if you want a small extra deck next to a real course. Skip it if you expect it to take you through A1, teach you how Swedish sentences work, or cover the words you will meet most often. After finishing it you would still be unable to read or build a basic sentence.
Worth it if
- Complete beginners who want audio and a picture for a small set of concrete words: weekdays, months, numbers, food, body parts
- Learners who already have a course or textbook and want a quick supplement for calendar and number vocabulary
- Learners who want to practice recognizing Swedish sounds for a few dozen everyday nouns and greetings
- People who want a short deck they can finish in a few weeks
Not for you if
- Anyone looking for a main A1 deck or a path to reading and speaking
- Learners who want sentences, example usage or grammar explanations
- Learners who want high-frequency vocabulary: it covers 8% of the top 1,000 words and skips nearly all function words
- Anyone who dislikes cards where the direction changes from one note to the next
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17Swedish A2 Vocabulary: 650 Core Words, Audio, en/ett, Forms100% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 48 Weakour #11
Part 2 of a 2-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.
A frequency-ordered Swedish word list with very good noun and verb form data and audio on every note, but with weak example sentences and no real progression, so use it as a reference drill rather than a course.
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Verdict
The strength is word-level information. Nouns carry en/ett plus all four forms, verbs carry present, past, supine and group, adjectives carry degrees, and every note has audio. The en/ett card is a useful drill on a point learners reliably get wrong. The weakness is the sentences. They are scraped corpus text, and the measurements show only 14% of them add one unknown word or fewer. In the sample they often drift off the headword or mistranslate. #17 'fara' is a noun note, but its example 'Ropen far i luften' uses the verb. #327 'strax' translates 'bronsplakett' as 'bronze bouquet'. #1 'tidigt' is taught with a sentence that contains 'tidigare' and ten words new to the deck. The late-deck vocabulary (inflation, ideologi, statistik, definition, aspekt, fartyg) is formal and tilts toward written Swedish, and the sample also shows errors in the data: #649 'helvete' gives the definite singular as 'helveten' instead of 'helvetet'.
Study this if you already have the A1 basics and want to add vocabulary, use the cards for forms, gender and pronunciation, and are willing to ignore or skip a share of the example sentences. Skip it if you are a beginner who needs comprehensible sentences, if you want a conversational A2 core, or if you want a course with sequence, context or images. Check each translation yourself before you trust it.
Worth it if
- Learners with A1 Swedish who want more vocabulary with en/ett, definite and plural forms, and verb principal parts on every card
- Learners who want audio on every note and a clear recognize/produce split, with an en/ett drill for nouns
- Readers who will use the Swedish definition (MeaningSV) and the collocations rather than depending on the example sentence
- People who can judge a bad example and skip it
Not for you if
- Complete beginners who need sentences where each new word is the only unknown
- Learners who want a graded course with grammar building up in order
- Anyone who needs everyday spoken A2 words: tro, kanske, varför, nej, prata and jobba are among the top-300 words the deck never uses (they may sit in the A1 deck, which this analysis can't see)
- Learners who rely on images or topic grouping to remember words
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18Emojis på svenska100% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 37 Poorour #27
A 299-card emoji-to-Swedish picture-noun list with no sentences, no frequency ordering and no grammar, so it is only worth using as a small side supplement for concrete nouns.
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Verdict
Every card is an emoji image on the front and one bare Swedish word on the back, such as affär, kaka, helikopter and gitarr. That format is clean and easy to grade, and the picture-to-word link works for concrete nouns like äpple, gurka, orm and regnbåge. The deck is weak almost everywhere else. It starts with saxofon (card 4) and almanacka (card 8) and has no ordering principle. It teaches only 60 of the 1,000 most common Swedish words, and function words and common verbs are missing, including är, jag, att, och and vara. Nothing shows a word in use, there are no articles to mark en or ett, and word forms are mixed with no signal (springer, sedlar, ogillar, rädd). The word list also reaches rare items like kugghjul, spindelnät and aubergine within the first third. The template has a text-to-speech tag on the answer side, but the file contains no audio files, and I can't judge how it sounds. In the sample, spelling looks careful, with one questionable item: annanas, where the usual spelling is ananas.
Use this if you already have a base in Swedish from a course or textbook and want extra picture-anchored nouns for food, animals, vehicles and objects. It suits someone who likes recalling a word from an image. Don't use it as your main A1 deck. It will not teach you to read or build sentences, and its vocabulary is too far from what a beginner needs first. Skip it too if you rely on a translation or an explanation, since the cards provide neither, and some emoji are hard to read without knowing the word (upp, ner, vet inte, räcker upp handen).
Worth it if
- Learners who already have basic Swedish and want extra concrete nouns (food, animals, vehicles, objects) tied to a picture
- People who like quick, low-effort picture-to-word recall as a supplement to a real course
- Learners who want a no-translation, Swedish-only deck and can use the pictures to check meaning
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who want a core A1 vocabulary: only 60 of the top 1,000 words are taught and basics like är, jag, och and att are missing
- Anyone who wants to learn how words are used in sentences, since the deck has none
- Learners who need grammar support such as noun gender, plurals or verb forms
- Learners who want audio recorded by a person: the deck ships no sound files
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19Bildetema – Swedish-English Visual Dictionary100% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 47 Weakour #12
A 1,191-word Swedish picture dictionary with full audio and images on every note; it works as a topic vocabulary supplement but not as a course.
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Verdict
The deck is strong where a picture dictionary should be. Every note has audio and an image, and nouns carry their en/ett article, as in 'ett golv' and 'en tallrik'. Each note has five card types (multiple choice, typed, listening), and the sibling words make useful distractors, such as 'en lus' and 'en loppa' among the insects. The weaknesses are structural. Notes follow Bildetema's topic order, so 'svärson', 'gammelmormor / gammelfarmor' and 'tjäder' arrive early while 'inte', 'att', 'med' and 'du' never appear. In the sample, 14 of 1,132 measured notes are sentences, and nearly all of them are the clock-time lines like 'Klockan är fem över tre'. The deck covers 17% of the 1,000 most common Swedish words, and the sample shows almost no verbs. The sample also has errors: 'ett ringfinger' where Swedish uses 'en', and 'mackarel' for 'en makrill'.
Worth it if
- Beginners who want concrete topic vocabulary (kitchen, body, animals, clothes, transport) with a picture and a native recording on every card
- Learners already working through a course or textbook who need a noun supplement, especially for the 'Familj', 'Kök' and 'Kläder' topics
- People who want to practise spelling and listening with the typed and listening card types
- Learners who want to see the en/ett gender of a noun every time they review it
Not for you if
- Anyone using this as their main route to conversation, since there are almost no sentences and no verbs to build them from
- Learners who want the most useful words first, because order follows topic, not frequency
- Learners who want grammar explained; there are no explanation fields and no grammar progression
- Anyone who needs every pair to be correct without checking, since the sample shows misspellings and a wrong article
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20Rivstart A1A2 English to Swedish with Sound50% positive of 8 AnkiWeb ratings 43 Weakour #18
A 2,130-word audio-backed vocabulary list that mirrors the Rivstart A1-A2 textbook; it works as a companion to the book, not as a standalone course, and some entries need correcting.
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Verdict
The deck's strengths are its tight link to the textbook and its audio coverage. It has 13 chapter subdecks, a page number on every card, and a sound file on 2,129 of 2,130 notes, though I can't judge the recordings themselves. Of the 100 most common Swedish words, 95 appear, mostly early. The weaknesses are the format and the care taken with entries. Only 71 of 2,119 notes are sentences, so you never see a word used in context, and grammar is limited to a raw 'Conjugation' string like '(-er, använde, använt)' that is empty on about a third of notes. The sample also shows errors that teach something false: 'tjej' is glossed 'girlfriend' (the same gloss as 'flickvän'), 'golf' is glossed 'gold', 'självklart' is 'obvious', 'Själv' is 'How about you?, And you?', and 'laga' is 'mat cook'. Within a chapter the cards run in a scrambled order, and the last three tenths of the deck drift toward niche items such as 'systemkamera', 'räksallad' and 'påslakan'. The deck covers only 60% of the top 1,000 Swedish words and 44% of the top 2,000.
Use it if you own Rivstart, are working through it chapter by chapter, and want English-to-Swedish recall with a recording of every word. Check the glosses against the book as you go, since you will meet some errors. Skip it if you want a general-purpose A1-A2 vocabulary, example sentences, listening practice, or any grammar teaching. The only card is English prompt, Swedish answer, so it trains production and never trains hearing a word and recognizing it.
Worth it if
- Learners with the Rivstart textbook who want a chapter-by-chapter word list with page references
- English speakers who want a Swedish audio recording attached to every word
- Learners willing to check glosses against the book and fix the errors they find as they study
Not for you if
- Self-learners without the textbook, since the order follows its chapters and there is no sentence context
- Anyone who wants sentence-based or comprehensible-input study
- Learners who want frequency-driven vocabulary: coverage drops to 44% of the top 2,000, and the late chapters are about half words past rank 5,000
- Learners looking for listening practice or grammar explanations
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21English Swedish 2500 most common words67% positive of 3 AnkiWeb ratings 37 Poorour #26
A frequency-ordered list of 2,500 Swedish headwords whose example sentences are unvetted corpus text, so it is usable as a word list but not as a course.
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Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The headword order is the strength. In the measurements, 100 of the top 100 Swedish words and 97% of ranks 101-500 are taught, and the common words come early. The weakness is everything attached to the headword. The example sentences are scraped from translated EU Parliament, TED and Tatoeba text, so the third card, i, pairs a one-word lesson with 'I artiklarna I-11 till I-16 beskrivs de olika typerna av befogenheter i detalj' (10 of 10 words new). Only 21% of sentences in the first tenth add at most one new word. In the sample, roughly one card in ten has a sentence that does not belong to its headword: en å shows a Hell Creek project sentence, rysk shows a 'satisfactory debate', årlig shows a software developer, and historisk shows a Dutch inspectorate address. On vetenskaplig and hylla the Swedish and English fields are swapped. Some glosses on the card cue are also wrong: en man lists 'mane on a horse', att vara lists 'article, product, care', and med lists 'runner, rocker'. Spoken-register words are missing (okej, ej, haha, grattis, ledsen, killar), and the 20% audio coverage may not play at all (see the fixable list).
Use it if you already read some Swedish, want a frequency-ordered skeleton of 2,500 words, and are willing to ignore or replace the example sentences and to distrust the gloss string on the front. It is a poor choice for a true beginner, who will meet long bureaucratic sentences from the first cards. It is also a poor choice if you want grammar teaching, conversational Swedish, dialogue or stories, or if you cannot spot a mismatched card yourself. This is a sample of about ninety cards, so the exact error rate across the deck is uncertain, but the problem shows up in every part of the sample.
Worth it if
- Learners at roughly A2-B1 who want a frequency-ordered list of Swedish headwords to check their vocabulary against
- Learners comfortable judging an example sentence themselves and suspending or editing the bad ones
- Readers who mainly want to recognize written vocabulary, since the card tests typing the Swedish word from an English cue
Not for you if
- Complete beginners, who get unsimplified parliamentary sentences from the third card on
- Anyone who wants conversational Swedish: okej, ej, haha, grattis and ledsen are among the common words never taught
- Anyone who wants grammar explained or sequenced, since there is no grammar content
- Learners who need trustworthy audio or images, since 80% of notes have no sound and none have pictures
- Learners who will take every example sentence at face value, since mismatched and swapped-language examples appear in the sample
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22Rivstart A1+A2 (ordlista)100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 43 Weakour #19
A 3,052-note vocabulary list copied from the Rivstart A1+A2 glossary, useful only as a companion to the textbook and not worth studying as a stand-alone Swedish deck.
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Verdict
The deck's strength is its structure: every note carries the Swedish headword, the inflection pattern and a chapter and page reference, so you can find a word in the book. The inflection strings are mostly right in the sample (kunna: "kan, kunde, kunnat"; sida: "-n, -or, -orna"). The first tenth is strong, with 95 of the 100 most common Swedish words taught and 61% of its new words from the top 1,000. After that the deck drifts toward textbook-specific vocabulary ("brännbollsturnering", "fotbollsplan", "myggmedel"), and it never teaches common words like "ju", "även", "innan", "först", "hitta" or "problem". It has no example sentences, no audio and no images. Only about 70 of 3,052 notes are sentences, and nearly all of those are classroom phrases at the start ("Jag har en fråga."). Notes are in creation order, not chapter order, so a run like #764-#773 jumps from Kapitel 4 to 16, 17 and back to 4. The sample also shows slips: "kortattat" for kortfattat, "councelor", "moquito", "academic" as the gloss for studievägledare, and "stockholmare" placed in the inflection field of nollåtta.
Use this if you own Rivstart and want to drill the chapter word lists. Filter by tag and add the missing context yourself. Don't use it if you are learning Swedish without the book, or if you want sentences, spoken Swedish or a grammar path. For those learners it is a pile of isolated words, many of them rare, with no way to see how any word is used.
Worth it if
- Students working through the Rivstart textbook who want its ordlista as flashcards, with chapter and page on every card
- Learners who will study one chapter at a time, using the Kapitel tags
- Learners who want the inflection pattern shown with each noun, verb and adjective (e.g. "-en, -er, -erna", "-r, -de, -t")
- Anyone who can add their own audio and example sentences and wants a ready-made word inventory to build on
Not for you if
- Self-study beginners without the textbook, who get no examples and no explanation of what the inflection strings mean
- Learners who want to build vocabulary in frequency order; only 692 of the top 1,000 Swedish words are covered, and later chapters lean on niche words
- Anyone who wants to learn from sentences, dialogues or example usage; there are almost none
- Learners who need audio, pronunciation help or images
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23Swedish - Rivstart A1 + A2100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 39 Poorour #23
A 2,913-card Swedish word list copied from the Rivstart A1-A2 course (97% single words or short phrases) that is useful only as a vocabulary companion to the textbook, and not worth studying on its own.
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Verdict
The deck does one thing well: it keeps the textbook's chapter order, tags every card by kapitel, and puts the inflection pattern on the back of most nouns and verbs, for example "(-en, -er, -erna) lawyer" or "(-r, -de, -t) celebrate". The opening is sound, since 59% of the first tenth's new words are in the top 1,000 and it starts with och, eller, jag and heta. It is weak in most other respects. Only 83 notes are sentences, and they are set phrases such as "Hur är läget?", so no word is ever shown in use. Later chapters turn to thematic vocabulary like näsduk, systemkamera, trumset, höjdrädd and a run of job titles ("operationssjukssköterska", "yrkesvägledare"), while common words such as ju, även, nog, innan, först, hitta, igår and snäll never appear. The deck covers 69% of the top 1,000 words. Errors show up in the sample: #2912 and #2913 split "väcka ... arouse interest" across two cards, with "intresse" on the back of the first and "arouse" as the front of the second. There are also typos ("kortattat", "councelor", "operationssjukssköterska") and a truncated gloss ("nished" for finished). There is no audio and no images.
Use it if you already own or are taking Rivstart and want a chapter-by-chapter list to drill alongside it. Expect to read the textbook for grammar and example sentences, and to correct some cards as you meet them. Don't use it as a standalone route to A2 Swedish. It gives you no sentences, no sound, no example of how a word is used, and no guarantee that the words you need most are in it.
Worth it if
- Learners working through Rivstart A1-A2 who want a chapter-tagged word list to review alongside the book
- Readers who want the noun and verb inflection pattern (-en, -er, -erna) shown next to each headword
- Learners who will add their own audio and example sentences and treat the deck as a skeleton
- People who already know some Swedish and want to check textbook vocabulary against a list
Not for you if
- Beginners with no textbook who want a frequency-led route to everyday Swedish
- Anyone who needs to hear Swedish or learn pronunciation from the deck
- Learners who want example sentences, dialogue or grammar explained in context
- Anyone who wants a deck that is accurate card by card without editing
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24Rivstart B2+C1 (ordkort)100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 33 Poorour #30
A 1,914-note Swedish-to-English word list taken from the Rivstart B2+C1 textbook, with machine-translated glosses, no sentences and no audio, so it is only worth studying alongside the book.
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Verdict
What it does well: it follows the textbook's chapter order, and every card shows the chapter number and reading title ("Kapitel 4 / Svenskar tror – men inte på Gud"). That lets you study a reading's vocabulary right before or after you read it. The Swedish side looks clean in the sample, and nouns carry their en/ett article ("en blick", "ett svek"). What it does badly: there is not one example sentence, since 98% of notes are single words or short phrases. The English comes from Google Translate, and the sample shows the damage: "hänga ihop med" is glossed "keep up with", "rödgråten" is "the red cry", "tjuvröka" is "secondhand smoke", "tvär" is "across", and "tappa andan" is "breathless". Several glosses sound like dictionary entries for the wrong sense ("ett tålamod" is "a patience", "en samvaro" is "a togetherness"). Within each chapter the words run alphabetically, so nothing is sequenced by difficulty or by how useful the word is. Opening cards such as "lekfull" and "stelna" are rare words, and the measurements show 284 rare words overall. It also covers only 31% of the 1,000 most common Swedish words, which is expected for a B2-C1 supplement but means it is no general vocabulary course.
Use it if you are working through Rivstart B2+C1 and want a quick, tag-searchable word list to drill against each reading, and you can tell a bad gloss when you see one. Do not use it as a standalone way to reach B2 Swedish, to learn how words behave in sentences, to learn grammar, or to train your ear. At B2 and above, a deck with no context and unchecked translations can teach you wrong meanings, so treat it as a scaffold and check doubtful glosses against the book or a dictionary.
Worth it if
- Learners who own Rivstart B2+C1 and want to drill each chapter's word list next to the reading
- Intermediate learners who can spot a doubtful machine gloss and will check it against the book's own glossary
- Anyone who wants a bare, easily edited Swedish-English word list to build their own sentence cards on
Not for you if
- Beginners or learners below B1, since the opening words are rare and abstract and there is no basic vocabulary
- Anyone wanting a standalone path to B2 with no textbook, because the selection follows reading texts rather than frequency
- Learners who need example sentences, grammar practice or listening, since the deck has none
- People who will trust the English glosses without checking them
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25Swedish A1 Vocabulary: 450 Core Words, Audio, en/ett, Forms100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 46 Weakour #14
Part 1 of a 2-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.
A Swedish A1 word list with complete noun, verb and adjective forms on every card, but corpus-sentence examples that are too hard for A1, so study it as a reference deck, not a beginner course.
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Verdict
The strength is the word-level data. Every note has an en/ett gender, verb principal parts, adjective forms (stor: stort, större, störst) and a recording, all on a clean card layout with an en/ett card for nouns. Most of the headwords are real high-frequency words, and the deck covers 98 of the top 100 Swedish words. The weakness is the example sentences, which are unadapted corpus lines. On the very first card, fel, you get "«Fel» dag , fel vecka , konstaterar hon" and 5 of its 5 words are new. Other examples include "Maten, och lunchen i synnerhet, slarvas det med i Nobelhusen" and "Andra språk blev eftersatta", which sits under annan and doesn't contain the headword at all. Only 2% to 5% of sentences in the first three tenths add one new word or fewer, and the new-word rate stays between 25% and 38% to the end. Ordering is also not a progression: the opening cards sit around frequency rank 440 to 1,700, while någon (rank 27) and annan (rank 29) arrive at cards 20 and 21. The "A1" label is generous, since the deck includes förändring, tillgång, marknad, undersökning and ställning. In the sample, 95 sentence words are rare for where they appear, among them obduktion, guvernant and katalysator. Errors also turn up in the sample: mor lists murarna as its definite plural, two (två) is glossed "two · wash", lägga has no past form, säker is typed as an adverb, and several translations are loose, such as "They buy to land in this way expands and gets a better income."
Use this deck if you already have a course or teacher, or already read some Swedish, and want a frequency-flavored list where you drill gender, plurals and verb forms with audio. It works better as a supplement than as your main path. Skip it if you are a true beginner expecting sentences you can read at i+1, a structured path through situations, or images. Count on 1,026 cards from 450 notes, and expect to correct a few entries as you go.
Worth it if
- Learners who already have a course or teacher and want to drill en/ett, plurals and verb principal parts as separate cards
- Upper-A2 or B1 learners who can handle hard corpus sentences and mainly want word forms and audio
- Anyone who wants a frequency-tagged word list with Swedish definitions next to English glosses
- Learners who like having every noun, verb and adjective card show its inflections consistently
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need example sentences they can mostly read (the first cards put 5 of 5 new words in a sentence)
- Learners who want a graded path from simple to complex material
- People who learn from images or scenes, since there are no images
- Anyone who wants the very commonest conversational words: tacka, vem, älska, gilla, tyvärr, pappa, okej and skicka are all missing
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26**📚 Svenska Sentences & Audio - Rasmus Ek Preply 🎧😊100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 42 Weakour #21
A 21-note Chapter 1 slice of a Rivstart-labeled Swedish deck with audio on every card, but its sentences are ungraded and contain errors, so it is not worth studying as a standalone course.
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Verdict
The deck does a few things well. Every note has audio for both the word and the sentence, and the English-to-Swedish prompt with the Swedish word, an example and a translation on the back is easy to follow. Some sentences are natural and useful, such as "Var ifrån kommer du?", "Vad har hänt?" and "Jag är bäst!". The weaknesses are more serious. The sentences do not build on one another: the card for "Han" uses "Han sprang milen på under 40 minuter", which brings in 5 of its 6 words for the first time, and "Hon åt fem bittar tårta" does the same. The measured share of sentences adding at most one new word is 0%. The cards also contain errors: "bittar" and "billen" look like misspellings of "bitar" and "bilen", "Var ifrån" should be one word, and "milen" is translated as "a mile" although a Swedish mil is 10 km. The English side has typos ("watter", "pices"), and Swedish common nouns are capitalized ("Bok", "Penna", "Vatten"). The only grammar aid is the line "komma, kom, kommit". The description promises A1-B2 coverage, but the file has 62 distinct words and teaches 5% of the 1,000 most common Swedish words.
Use this as a small audio supplement if you already work through Rivstart Chapter 1 and can spot and correct the errors yourself. Skip it if you are a true beginner who will trust every spelling, or if you want a deck that carries you from A1 to B2. Those learners need graded sentences and checked content, and this sample does not provide them. It is a sample of 21 notes, so the rest of the deck may differ, but the description's claims are not supported by what is here.
Worth it if
- Rivstart students who want recorded Swedish for the Chapter 1 pronouns, question words and everyday nouns
- Learners who can edit cards and are comfortable correcting a spelling or translation they spot
- Listening practice on short sentences such as "Vad har hänt?" and "Var gick du efter lektionen?"
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who cannot tell a typo from correct Swedish
- Anyone expecting A1-B2 coverage: the file has 21 notes and 62 distinct words
- Learners who need a controlled build-up of vocabulary and grammar, since the example sentences bring in many unknown words at once
- People who want to learn from images, since no card has one
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27Snoogles' Swedish vocabulary100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 31 Poorour #33
A 2,266-note alphabetical Swedish word list with endings-only inflection cards, no audio, no images and almost no usable sentences; it works as a reference to mine, not as a course to study.
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Verdict
What it does well: it covers a lot of ground, with 725 of the 1,000 most common Swedish words and 1,200 of the top 2,000. Nouns, verbs and adjectives each carry their endings (adressat / -en / -er / -erna), and verbs and adjectives get extra conjugation and declension drills. What it does badly: the order is alphabetical, so your first 30 notes are adressat (recipient), aftonklänning (evening dress), akutmottagning (emergency room) and amortering (amortization), while ja, nej, okej and problem are never taught at all. Only 16% of notes have a sentence of four or more words. About half of those sentences sit in the last tenth, and they are lines from a verse about a cat and a girl named Susanna ('Katten sov så fet och from / med tassen under kinden'), which add several unfamiliar words each. In the sample there are also slips: 'handsfack' for 'glove box' (should be handskfack), 'hanske' for handske, 'ciklar' for cirklar, 'laffarna' for luffarna, and loose glosses such as 'bekämpning = resistance' and 'lucka = door, gap'. Rare words like anställningsavtal, flintskallig and hembiträde appear early, next to basics.
Use this if you are already past beginner level, read Swedish, and want a large pool of nouns, verbs and adjectives with their inflections to harvest from, and you are willing to check entries against a dictionary. If you are starting from zero, you will meet obscure vocabulary before the basics and get no listening practice. If you want to learn from sentences or hear the language, the deck gives you almost nothing to work with. The material would need curating before it works as a main study deck.
Worth it if
- Intermediate or advanced learners who want a large inventory of Swedish nouns, verbs and adjectives with their endings to prune and study selectively
- Learners drilling noun gender and plural patterns, since each noun card lists the definite and plural endings
- Readers who will check each entry in a dictionary and treat the deck as raw material rather than a trusted source
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners, who will meet 'recipient' and 'amortization' before ja, nej or okej
- Anyone who needs spoken Swedish or pronunciation, since there is no audio on any note
- Learners who want to build comprehension from sentences, since 84% of notes are single words or short phrases
- People who want a deck they can trust without checking, given the misspellings and loose glosses in the sample
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28Rivstart A1A2 Swedish & English w/ en/ett, word type & more100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 41 Weakour #22
Rivstart A1A2 is a 2,140-note glossary for the Rivstart textbook with useful en/ett and ending data, but it needs template repair before it works as a study deck and it is not worth studying on its own.
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Verdict
The deck's strongest feature is its tie to the textbook. Chapter subdecks plus Kapitel and Sidan fields let you study each chapter's glossary alongside the book. Nouns carry en/ett and a plural ending set ("(-en, -ar, -arna)"), which is useful for Swedish. The weaknesses are structural. 97% of notes are single words or short phrases, with no example sentences and no audio or images. In the sample, the Forwards card puts Svenska, English and the en/ett tag all on the front, so nothing is left to recall. The Backwards card shows only Swedish on the front, and neither template ever displays the English field on the answer side, so it can't test meaning either. The sample also shows careless errors: "catastrophy", "water arerobics", "sig get married", "Moderna museet" tagged Ett with an ending set of "(-et, -er, -erna)", "singular" tagged adjektiv, and mobiltelefoni entered twice (#2135, #2136). Coverage of everyday Swedish is thin, at 60% of the top 1,000 words and 44% of the top 2,000. Common words such as ju, även, innan, vem, eftersom and försöka are never taught, while later chapters add nitroglycerin, systemkamera, trumset and påslakan.
Use it if you are working through Rivstart A1+A2 and want the book's word lists in Anki, and you are willing to fix the templates first. It works as a chapter-by-chapter glossary to pair with the textbook's own texts and exercises. Skip it if you are studying without the book, want a frequency-driven path to the common words, or need example sentences, audio, or grammar taught in context. In those cases the rewriting needed is too large, and a sentence-based or frequency-ordered deck is a better choice.
Worth it if
- Students taking a course that uses Rivstart A1+A2, who want a chapter-by-chapter glossary keyed to Kapitel and Sidan
- Learners who want en/ett and plural endings attached to each noun from the start
- Beginners who can supply their own sentences and listening from the textbook and its recordings
- Learners comfortable editing card templates once before they start
Not for you if
- Self-studiers without the textbook, since the chapter order and many entries only make sense against the book
- Learners who want sentence context, since the sample is almost all bare words (67 of 2,124 notes have 4 or more words)
- Anyone who wants to reach the most common Swedish words efficiently, given 60% coverage of the top 1,000 and 50% of late-deck new words ranked past 5,000 or unlisted
- Learners who need audio or images in the deck itself
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29Swedish text audio cards - zGPT_2025_01_25_EN_SW100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 38 Poorour #25
A GPT-generated Swedish sentence deck of rare words with real errors in the Swedish answers; not worth studying as it stands.
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Verdict
The deck's one strong point is that every card is a full sentence with audio, and after the first third most sentences add only one new word (60% overall, 86% by the last tenth). The problems are in the content. The opening cards teach 'brasved', 'timrade', 'jordskalv' and 'barren' before basics: the file shows only 51% of the top 1,000 Swedish words taught, and 'också', 'ja', 'nej', 'kanske', 'därför' and 'eftersom' never appear. The Swedish itself is unreliable. In the sample, #9 has 'en vacker pärlhalsband' (wrong gender), #123 has 'en gröna barr' (agreement), #157 has 'Hatten är tagna av', #641 has 'Min vägg är nästan helt kala', #867 has 'Min tröja är blött', and #727 has 'Tekniker anmälda ett fel'. #14 mistranslates the idiom 'hugga till'. #666 and #441 hold chatbot text ('I'm sorry, I could not find any examples...') instead of a sentence. Many English fronts are stilted, such as 'It's enough with me', and a stray ')' ends nearly every front. The author's own description admits some sentences are inaccurate, and the sample confirms it. You would be memorizing some wrong Swedish.
The deck might suit an advanced learner who already reads Swedish well enough to spot bad grammar and can delete the broken cards as they appear. It does not suit a B1 learner, anyone who cannot tell a good sentence from a flawed one, or anyone who wants a frequency-based path to core vocabulary. The stated B1-C1 level is generous, because the early cards are a hard-word list, not a B1 build. Use it, if at all, as a source of rare-word ideas, not as a course.
Worth it if
- Advanced Swedish readers who can spot errors and will suspend bad cards as they go
- Learners who want to mine literary or low-frequency vocabulary such as 'brasved', 'jordskalv' and 'lägereld' and already know the core words
- People who want a pile of Swedish sentences with audio to adapt or reuse
Not for you if
- Beginners and early intermediate learners who still need the top 1,000 words and have no way to check the Swedish
- Anyone who needs grammatically reliable models, since agreement and word-order errors appear throughout the sample
- Learners who want a structured progression through grammar or a coherent topic path
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30Rivstart A1+A2 with sound100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 46 Weakour #13
A 3,052-note Rivstart word list with audio on every card and almost no sentences; it works as a companion to the textbook, not as a standalone Swedish course.
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Verdict
The deck does a few things well. Every note has a sound file, the two templates are clean (Swedish to English and English to Swedish), and the Chapter and Page fields show where each word comes from. Inflection endings such as '-en, -er, -erna' and 'kan, kunde, kunnat' give you gender and verb patterns on many nouns and verbs. It covers 95 of the 100 most common Swedish words. The weaknesses are larger. 98% of notes are single words or short phrases, with no example sentences, so you never see a word used in context. The order follows the textbook loosely: in the sample, Chapter 4, 16 and 17 words sit side by side, and the last chapters hold words like 'brännbollsturnering' and 'systemkamera'. Only 69% of the top 1,000 words are taught, and 'ju', 'även', 'innan' and 'igår' are missing. The sample also shows errors: 'councelor', 'moquito', and 'kortattat' for 'kortfattat'. 'academic' glosses 'studievägledare', which is a study counselor, and 'balans' appears at the very end of the deck although it is a Chapter 1 word.
Use this if you own or are following Rivstart and want a recall and pronunciation drill that matches its vocabulary lists. It also suits you if you already have a source of sentences and grammar and need word-level review with audio. Do not use it as your main route into Swedish, or if you have no textbook. Without sentences or explanations you would memorize isolated words with no sense of grammar or usage. Treat the glosses and inflection fields as things to check, not as authoritative.
Worth it if
- Learners working through Rivstart A1+A2 who want vocabulary review tied to chapter and page
- Learners who want audio on every Swedish word for pronunciation practice (check a few clips yourself first)
- Learners who already get grammar and sentences elsewhere and need a word-level drill
- Learners who want noun gender and verb pattern hints beside each word
Not for you if
- Beginners who want a standalone course with no textbook
- Learners who need example sentences or dialogues to see words in use
- Learners who want a frequency-ordered core vocabulary, since 31% of the top 1,000 words are missing
- Anyone who wants a grammar sequence or explanations; the deck has neither
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31Rivstart B1+B2 (ordkort)100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 33 Poorour #31
A machine-translated, bare-word vocabulary list for the Rivstart B1+B2 textbook that is only worth studying as a companion to the book, and even then with checking.
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Verdict
The deck's one real strength is its tie to the textbook. Every note carries a chapter number and a Kapitel tag, so you can work through it in step with Rivstart, and the B1-B2 words are mostly sensible ones like "en anledning", "ett ansvar" and "gradvis". Beyond that it is thin. All 1,129 measured notes are single words or short phrases, with no sentences, no audio and no images, and within each chapter the words run alphabetically rather than from easier to harder. The glosses are Google Translate output with no context, and the sample shows it. "en handel" is glossed "a Commerce", "snattar" is glossed "shoplifters" (a plural noun for a verb form), and "(en) hälsa" is glossed "(a health". "alldeles" becomes "Right", "en egenskap" becomes "a skill", and "nödvädning" becomes "emergency weeding", which looks like a garbled headword. "tröttnar" appears twice, in chapters 2 and 5, both glossed "tired". The deck is also not a general frequency list. It teaches only 22% of the 1,000 most common Swedish words, which is expected for a B1-B2 supplement, but rare items such as "flintskallig" and "oärlig" sit early in the deck.
Use it if you own Rivstart B1+B2, already read the chapters, and want a quick chapter-by-chapter recognition drill that you are willing to correct as you go. Do not use it as your main resource, and do not use it if you do not have the book. Without the chapter texts you are memorizing isolated words that have no example, no grammar note and no pronunciation, and some of the English glosses will mislead you.
Worth it if
- Learners working through Rivstart B1+B2 who want a chapter-by-chapter word list to review alongside the book
- Intermediate learners who can already read Swedish and can spot a bad gloss when they see one
- People who are happy to edit cards as they study, using the chapter tags to keep the work in manageable chunks
Not for you if
- Anyone without the Rivstart textbook, since the chapter label is the only context the cards offer
- Learners who want example sentences, grammar explanations or listening practice
- Beginners, who need the most common function words and verbs; the sample shows none of the top 100 words being taught in an organized way
- Learners who need reliable English glosses, since the translations were not checked by a person
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32Swedish irregular verbs100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 44 Weakour #17
A 152-card drill of Swedish strong and irregular verb forms copied from a Wikibooks list: worth studying selectively for the first half as form practice, but not as a vocabulary or sentence deck.
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Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
Each card gives an English gloss and asks for four forms in a fixed table (infinitive, present, preterite, supinum), framed by 'jag ___ nu', 'jag ___ igår' and 'jag har ___ idag'. The forms in the sample look right, including awkward ones like 'gett/givit', 'begravde/begrov' and 'växte/vax', and later cards add the subjunctive preterite and past participle on the back. Against that, there are no sentences, audio or images. The order follows the source list rather than usefulness: 'komma' is card 19 and 'vilja' card 66, while 'riva' and 'vrida' sit near the opening. The second half is mostly rare or dated verbs such as 'tryta', 'gnida', 'kväda' and 'förtälja', whose own gloss says 'archaic'. From about note 75 on, only 7-20% of each tenth's new words are in the top 1,000 of the frequency list. Two usability problems come with the template: the answer cells are styled white, which likely vanishes on Anki's light theme, and the front shows only the English, so you have to produce the Swedish verb itself from a gloss like 'run out, become completely used up'.
Use it if you already read basic Swedish, know how regular verbs work, and want to memorize irregular principal parts, mainly from the first 70 or so cards, after repairing the template. Skip it if you are a beginner who needs core vocabulary, if you want sentences or listening practice, or if you want a deck you can finish without suspending a third of it.
Worth it if
- Learners with basic Swedish who want to memorize the principal parts of common irregular verbs such as 'gå', 'se', 'ta', 'ge', 'göra', 'komma', 'sova' and 'vilja'.
- Anyone who wants to see vowel-change patterns side by side: the opening runs group binda/dricka/sitta/springa/vinna and skina/skriva/stiga/vrida.
- Readers of formal or older Swedish, who get the subjunctive preterite and past participle on the back of the later cards (e.g. 'stulen', 'bruten').
- Learners who pair it with a sentence-based deck or graded reading and use this one only for verb forms.
Not for you if
- Beginners who need core vocabulary: in the measurement it teaches 54 of the top 1,000 words and 77 of the top 2,000, and 'är', 'kan' and 'skola' appear among the common words it never uses.
- Anyone who wants to hear Swedish: no card carries audio.
- Learners who want to see how verbs are used in sentences; the only context is the tense frame 'jag ___ igår'.
- Anyone who plans to study every card in order; roughly the last third is rare or archaic verbs like 'kväda', 'ljuta' and 'förtälja'.
- Anyone who will use it without checking the card styling first, because the answers are likely invisible on a light background.
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33svensk - 050% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 58 Mixedour #5
Number 5 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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This deck trains one thing: the Swedish alphabet and how Swedish spelling maps to sound. The analyzer scores a deck as a full language-learning resource, so it loses points on vocabulary, sentences and grammar, which it was never built to teach. Its report is here for anyone who wants that one focused drill.
1Swedish Phonology100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 45 Weaknot ranked
Pronunciation: the swedish alphabet and phonology.
A narrow Swedish phonology and spelling drill with audio on most cards, worth studying only as a supplement to a course, not as a way to learn the language.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The deck follows a sensible sound syllabus: letter names, vowels, stress and the two tones, sj/tj sounds, loan-word spellings, then consonant doubling and capitalization. The audio-driven cards are its strongest part. The grave/acute pairs such as anden 'the duck' versus anden 'the spirit', and stegen 'the ladder' versus stegen 'steps', train something a textbook can't, and 'Spell the following.' cards make you write what you hear. The weaknesses are structural. There are only 2 sentences of 4+ words among 210 measured notes. Words are picked to show a sound contrast, not to be useful: föl 'foal', håv 'net' and bus 'mischief' appear while är, och, att and jag never do. The sample also has sloppy spots, such as the känna cards, where känt is glossed 'sensed', kände 'known' and känns 'he is known'.
Use it if you are at A1, working alongside a Swedish class or textbook, and want an ear and spelling drill. Skip it if you expect vocabulary, sentences or grammar, because the deck covers about 10% of the top 1,000 Swedish words and gives you nothing to read or say. Play several audio cards yourself before committing, since the measurements only show that audio is present, not how good it sounds.
Worth it if
- A1 learners taking a Swedish class who want extra drill on letter names, long and short vowels, and the acute/grave tone pairs
- Learners who need to link spelling to sound, such as ck for [kk], sj/tj/sch/ch spellings, and why 'ost' or 'kål' are spelled as they are
- Beginners who want the Swedish alphabet with audio, including å, ä and ö
- Anyone who wants a short, reference-style list of Swedish spelling rules, such as capitalization and n-doubling, to quiz themselves on
Not for you if
- Anyone hoping to build a working vocabulary: only about 10% of the top 1,000 words are taught, and the most frequent function words are missing
- Learners who want sentences, dialogue or reading practice, since the sample is almost all single words and short rule questions
- Self-teachers who need a standalone course, because the deck assumes a teacher or textbook supplies the context
- Learners who want grammar practice, since the few grammar-adjacent items are orthographic rules
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How we picked and scored the decks
We searched AnkiWeb for “swedish” on November 11, 2026 and went down the results in the order AnkiWeb lists them. A deck made the list if an English speaker can learn Swedish with it. That includes decks written entirely in Swedish, which suit advanced learners and are marked Swedish only. It rules out decks for speakers of other languages and decks that teach English. The first 30 that qualified are on this page. When a deck comes in parts, we analyzed and ranked every part on its own score, since a series split by level (A1, A2, B1) can be strong where a learner past part 1 would start. Each part's card shows how the other parts scored. Decks that train a single skill, like pronunciation or numbers, are analyzed in their own section and not ranked.
Each deck was scored once with Anki Deck Analyzer 1.9.1 (claude-sonnet-5-5, effort high, the same settings for every deck), from the file as downloaded, with the deck's AnkiWeb description passed along. The analyzer measures what can be counted (the progression curve, vocabulary against a frequency list, audio and image coverage) and has Claude read a fixed sample of about 90 notes for the rest. The score is out of 100: the five fundamentals carry 80% of it, the four nice-to-haves 20%.
11 decks we skipped, and why
- Rivstart A1+2 und B1+2: Swedish-German: for German speakers
- Hepokatin abipaketti: Ruotsi (Omia poimintoja): for Finnish speakers (Finnish matriculation exam)
- Swedish driver license (English): not a language deck: Swedish driving-license theory
- Swedish Counties (Svenska län): not a language deck: geography (Swedish counties)
- Schwedisch - Babbel Anfängerkurs: for German speakers (Babbel course, German-Swedish)
- Spanska. Komplett med bilder, ljudfiler och minnesregler.: teaches Spanish to Swedish speakers
- Sentences containing 1000 most common swedish words: for German speakers: German-Swedish sentences
- Meningar på ukrainska från svenka: teaches Ukrainian to Swedish speakers
- Svenskt teckenspråk (Swedish Sign Language): teaches Swedish Sign Language, a different language from spoken Swedish
- Swedish-Russian, Russian-Swedish: for Russian speakers: Swedish-Russian
- Swedish vocabularies for German speaking persons: for German speakers
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