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The basic word order of the Swedish clause is shown below. The second position in the table, called Finite, is filled by the tensed verb in main clauses, and by the subjunction in embedded clauses. In the table, main clauses and embedded clauses are paired to show the parallel word orders.

First Position	M i d d l e p a r t			F i n a l p a r t (Verb phrase)
	Finite	Subject	Sent.advl	Verb	Object	Advl
Vemwho	harhas		intenot	lästread	den här bokenthis book	änyet
(Jag vet)vemI know who	somthat		intenot	har lästhas read	den här bokenthis book	änyet
Den här bokenthis book	harhas	hanhe	faktisktactually	lästread
(Det är) min bokit is my book	somthat	hanhe	faktisktactually	har lästhas read

As the word order of the Final part indicates, Swedish is a language with verb-initial verb phrases. 

Sententical adverbials may occur clause initially, clause finally, or in the middle field:

First position	Finite	Subject	Sent. advl.	Verb	Object.	Content advl.
JohanJohan	harhas		troligenprobably	träffatmet	AnnaAnna
Troligenprobably	harhas	JohanJohan		träffatmet	AnnaAnna
JohanJohan	harhas			träffatmet	AnnaAnna	såvitt jag vetas far as I know

The main types of Swedish sentential adverbials are:

d. Negating adverbials deny the truth of the proposition: inte ’not’.

When more than one sentential adverbial occurs in the middle field, there is usually a strict order:
 

X	Modal particle	Conjunctional adverbial	Modal adverbial	Focalizing adverbial	Negating adverbial	Y
Anna harAnna has	juof course	emellertidhowever	sannoliktprobably		intenot	gjort detdone it
Han villhe wants	välwell	ändåstill	kanskemaybe	barajust	intenot	skrattalaugh

The most common sentence adverbs in written Swedish: inte ‘not’, också ‘also’, även ‘also’, bara ‘just, only’, kanske ‘maybe’, ju ‘you know, of course’, därför ‘therefore‘, emellertid ‘thus’, just ‘just, exactly’, endast ‘only’.

1.6. NEGATION

General

The order of elements in the Swedish verb phrase is given in the scheme below. Directly following the verb is the verbal particle, which forms a separable compound with the verb. If there is an indirect object, this follows next, preceding a position where we find the subjectpredicative complement, the direct object or the associate subject; see the last example below for a case with both an indirect object and an associate subject. The object predicative complementand the infinitive of the object with infinitive construction share a position, followed by a field for bound content adverbials (Han bor i Lund ‘he lives in Lund’) and prepositional objects (Han ser på henne ‘he is looking at her’). Finally there is a field for free content adverbials and postponed phrases. 
  
  
  
  
 

Verb	Particle	Ind. obj.	Direct object,etc.	Object predicativesetc.	Bound adverbials	Free advls,Postponed phrases
kastathrow	utout		en bolla ball			på planenin field.the
bör geshould give		honomhim	en boka book			på födelsedagenat his birthday
målapaint			husetthe house	röttred
hoppajump	uppup		en katta cat		på bordetat the table	framför hennein-front-of her
sesee			honomhim	kommacome
tatake	ifrånaway from	honomhim	körkortetdriver license.the			genastimmediatelyt
tilldelatsgiven		henneher	en belöninga reward			av konungenby the king