Swedish pronoun· top 100 most common

vem

who/vɛmː/

Meaning

who

In Swedish: vilken person

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What does vem mean?

vem in a sentence

  • jag såg vem som kom
    I saw who came
  • Vem är hon?
    Who is she?
  • Vems bok är detta?
    anybody, anyone you like
  • Vem är du?
    Who are you?
  • Vem frågade du?
    Whom did you ask?

Questions

What does vem mean in English?

vem means “who”.

Where the course teaches it

Origin

From Old Norse hveim, dative of hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz.

Nearby common words

vem is number 86 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

  • 82mitt my, in the middle (at or around the middle, spatially or more abstractly), (often) right
  • 83nåt syncopic form of något (“something, anything”)
  • 84mycket very much, greatly
  • 85går goes, walks, goes, runs
  • 87hej hello, hallo!
  • 88kanske perhaps, maybe
  • 89ge give
  • 90lite little, some; a small amount
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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Recording: Wikimedia Commons. Browse the dictionary