This essay aims to give an overview of the function and incorporation of English into the Swedish language in the present day. To do this I have compiled previous studies from the last few years about the presence of English in Sweden, code switching between the languages and the purpose it serves as well as loanwords and their formal integration into Swedish structures and written conventions. It also includes an empirical study exploring the Swedish orthographical adaptation of loans with English origin and the usage frequency of the foreign versus the adapted form of the same words in informal writing on the internet. The words chosen for the study have a Swedish orthographically adapted form on Språkrådets “new-word-lists” between 1986 and 2020, and the search itself was done using Språkbankens Korps large social media based corpus. The majority of the words included in the study were more frequently used with the foreign spelling of the word stem even when they were used with Swedish suffixes, showing that English is often incorporated and accepted into Swedish morphosyntax.  Overall English can be concluded to play a significant role in the Swedish speaking community and is in practice more like a second language than a foreign one. In multiple language domains it is used parallel to Swedish and code switching is quite common among young people and in less formal or structured settings. It is mostly used as a stylistic tool and an act of identity creation, but also as a linguistic resource for complementing Swedish. Loanwords are often morphologically adapted but still used together with word stems with English spelling, showing that English language features can be accepted and quite frequently used inside a Swedish grammatical frame.

<p>Ett av målen i skolans läroplan är att eleverna utvecklar en kommunikativ och social kompetens. Enligt kursplanen för engelska B kurs, skall eleverna bland annat ha utvecklat en förmåga att kunna anpassa språket beroende på den situation eleven befinner sig i. Det indefinita pronomenet man är vanligt förekommande i det svenska språket. Att översätta detta ord fordrar en förståelse av situation såväl som av register. Undersökningen går ut på att ta reda på hur eleverna hanterar översättningen av man och om de vet när situationen fordrar formellt eller informellt språk. Resultatet visar att de kan hantera översättningen i de flesta avseenden även om de inte fått mycket undervisning om problemet. Valet av you som motsvarighet till man är dock övervägande och eftersom detta val signalerar informalitet kan kommunikationen påverkas.</p> / <p>One of the goals of the Swedish national curriculum is that students develop a communicative and social competence. According to the English B-level syllabus, the students should among other things develop their ability to adjust language use to the situation. The indefinite pronoun man is a frequent occurrence in the Swedish language. Translating this word requires an understanding of situation as well as register. The study examines how the students handle the translation of man and if they know when the situation requires formal or informal language. The result shows that they can handle the translation in most cases even though they have not been given much instruction on the problem. However, the choice of you as a correspondence to man is predominant, and since this choice signals informality communication might be affected.</p>

Ett av målen i skolans läroplan är att eleverna utvecklar en kommunikativ och social kompetens. Enligt kursplanen för engelska B kurs, skall eleverna bland annat ha utvecklat en förmåga att kunna anpassa språket beroende på den situation eleven befinner sig i. Det indefinita pronomenet man är vanligt förekommande i det svenska språket. Att översätta detta ord fordrar en förståelse av situation såväl som av register. Undersökningen går ut på att ta reda på hur eleverna hanterar översättningen av man och om de vet när situationen fordrar formellt eller informellt språk. Resultatet visar att de kan hantera översättningen i de flesta avseenden även om de inte fått mycket undervisning om problemet. Valet av you som motsvarighet till man är dock övervägande och eftersom detta val signalerar informalitet kan kommunikationen påverkas. / One of the goals of the Swedish national curriculum is that students develop a communicative and social competence. According to the English B-level syllabus, the students should among other things develop their ability to adjust language use to the situation. The indefinite pronoun man is a frequent occurrence in the Swedish language. Translating this word requires an understanding of situation as well as register. The study examines how the students handle the translation of man and if they know when the situation requires formal or informal language. The result shows that they can handle the translation in most cases even though they have not been given much instruction on the problem. However, the choice of you as a correspondence to man is predominant, and since this choice signals informality communication might be affected.