# Swedish Translation Services

> Swedish translation services for documents from Sweden and Finland, by native human translators. Certified for USCIS, with notarization included.

https://roxotranslations.com/swedish-translation/

Roxo Translations offers Swedish translation services for documents from Sweden, from Finland and from the Swedish communities abroad, to and from English, Italian, Russian and Arabic. Every translation is done by a human translator, native in the target language, and reviewed by a second one, never by machine translation.

Send a photo or scan of the document, see the price and the deadline instantly, and receive the translation as a PDF. For the United States it comes certified and accepted by USCIS, with the signed statement and notarization included.

- Swedish from Sweden and Finland, in both directions
- Certified for USCIS, with notarization included
- Instant online quote and fast delivery

## Where Swedish is spoken and where your translation is accepted

Swedish is the main language of Sweden, one of the two national languages of Finland, together with Finnish, and the only official language of the Åland Islands. It has been an official language of the European Union since 1995, and it has more than 10 million speakers. Between the middle of the 19th century and the early 20th century, more than a million Swedes emigrated to the United States, many of them to Minnesota and Illinois, and their descendants still look for Swedish family records. The destination decides the type of translation.

| Where | What you need |
|---|---|
| United States: USCIS, courts, universities and employers | [Certified translation](https://roxotranslations.com/certified-translation/) into English, with the signed statement of accuracy and notarization included |
| Brazil: notary offices, universities and public agencies | [Sworn translation](https://roxotranslations.com/pt/traducao-juramentada/) into Portuguese, signed by a public sworn translator and valid nationwide. For Swedish, we confirm before quoting whether it goes through English |
| Sweden, Finland and other countries | Ask the receiving authority which format it accepts: we tell you the options before quoting, including the [Hague apostille](https://roxotranslations.com/apostille/) when it applies |
| Swedish and Finnish consulates, citizenship and immigration processes | The translation into the language the authority asks for, with the apostille on the original when it is required |

## Swedish language pairs we translate

These are the language pairs with Swedish that we translate today, in both directions.

- [Swedish to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [Swedish to English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Swedish to Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Swedish to Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)
- [Arabic to Swedish](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [English to Swedish](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Italian to Swedish](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Russian to Swedish](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)

Need a pair that is not on the list? Talk to us: we answer within one hour, 7 days a week.

## Swedish translation services for Sweden and Finland

Swedish is close to Norwegian and Danish, and speakers of the three often understand each other, but documents from Sweden and from Finland follow their own formats and their own official terms. A good translation follows the Swedish of the original, keeps every letter of the names and reads naturally to whoever receives it.

- Letters: Swedish uses the Latin alphabet with three more letters, å, ä and ö, which come after z. American documents often drop the marks, so Åström becomes Astrom and Björk becomes Bjork. The translation keeps every name exactly as in the original, so tell us the form used in your US documents when you order.
- Sweden and Finland: the Swedish of Finland (finlandssvenska) has some words of its own, so a health center is a hälsocentral in Finland and a vårdcentral in Sweden, and the upper secondary school exam is the studentexamen in Finland and the gymnasieexamen in Sweden. Many documents from Finland come in Finnish and Swedish side by side; if yours is only in Finnish, tell us when you order and we confirm the options before quoting.
- Names: many surnames end in -son, such as Andersson and Johansson, a trace of the old patronymics, which became fixed family names after a law of 1901. In the United States many families shortened them to Anderson or Johnson. The translation never adapts a name: it keeps the spelling of the original, and differences between your documents are something to point out when you order.
- Dates and numbers: official documents often write dates in year, month and day order, so 2026-10-03 is October 3, 2026, and the months are lowercase, as in 3 oktober 2026. Decimals use a comma and thousands a space, so 1 500,00 is one thousand five hundred. In both countries the personal identity number begins with the date of birth.
- Documents from Sweden and Finland: the extract from the population register (personbevis), issued by the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket), the marriage certificate (vigselbevis), the degree certificate (examensbevis) and, from Finland, the extract from the population register (ämbetsbetyg in Swedish, virkatodistus in Finnish). The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.

## The history of the Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language, descended from Old Norse, the language of Scandinavia in the Viking Age. Its oldest records are runic inscriptions carved in stone, and the Rök runestone, raised in Östergötland around the year 800, carries the longest known runic inscription.

In the Middle Ages Swedish began to be written in the Latin alphabet, and one of its oldest texts is the Westrogothic Law (Västgötalagen), from the 13th century. The New Testament came out in Swedish in 1526, and in 1541 the Gustav Vasa Bible, the first complete Bible in the language, became a model for the written standard. Finland was part of the Swedish realm until 1809, which is why Swedish is still a national language there. King Gustav III founded the Swedish Academy in 1786, and its spelling dictionary (SAOL) has been published since 1874.

A spelling reform in 1906 simplified the writing, so hvad became vad. The Church of Sweden kept the population records until 1991, when the tax authorities took them over, so older family documents are often parish records. Since 2009 a language law has made Swedish the main language of Sweden, and today it has more than 10 million speakers, in Sweden, in Finland and in the communities abroad.

## We also translate other languages

- [Bulgarian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/bulgarian-translation/)
- Lithuanian translation
- Danish translation
- Slovak translation
- Latvian translation