ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the forms of Swedish personal and reflexive pronouns. In recent years use of a gender-neutral pronoun hen has been advocated to replace han/hon in certain circumstances. Cultivated Swedish retains deand dem in writing, but the spelling dom is sometimes used for the third person plural pronuns in informal digital communication, personal letters and some contemporary prose. Swedish has no separate disjunctive form of the pronoun but uses the subject form of the personal pronoun. A reflexive pronoun is used when the object of a verb or preposition is also the subject of a sentence or clause. Swedish reflexive pronouns are identical to object pronouns for all but the third person. Possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives share the same form in Swedish. Relative pronouns introduce a subordinate (relative) clause, referring back to a correlative in the main clause. Interrogative pronouns introduce a direct or indirect question.
