ABSTRACT
Modern Swedish has only one form of the verb for all persons, singular and plural, in each of the various tenses. Plural forms fell out of use in spoken Swedish centuries ago and were finally renounced in written Swedish in the 1950s. Swedish has no continuous form of the verb but, like English, employs auxiliary verbs to help form the perfect, pluperfect and future tenses. There are four principal types or conjugations of Swedish verbs. Conjugations I, II and III are weak conjugations, forming the past tense by the addition of an ending. All their forms can be built up simply on the basis of their infinitive/present forms. Conjugation IV is strong, forming its past tense by changing the stem vowel.
