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23 Jan 2025 2:00 pm
Exactly..*Huey » 23 Jan 2025, 2:56 pm » wrote: ↑ Swedish and German are two languages that both belong to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language tree. This means that they are related. It doesn't necessarily mean, however, that they're mutually intelligible. English, too, is a Germanic language after all.To be more precise, German is a West-Germanic language. So are English and Dutch, whereas Swedish, along with other Scandinavian languages fall into the North Germanic category. You'd think that this meant that German had more in common with English, but due to the historical evolution of the two languages (and Latin, Greek and French influences on English), English and German aren't that close.German has a lot in common with Swedish in terms of vocabulary.
https://autolingual.com/swedish-vs-german/
This means that they are related. It doesn't necessarily mean, however, that they're mutually intelligible. English, too, is a Germanic language after all.
those would be "cognates", but they don't abound..German has a lot in common with Swedish in terms of vocabulary.