Introduction to vowels

The Swedish alphabet has 9 letters to indicate vowels: A, E, I, O, U, Y, Å, Ä, Ö
As told in the introduction, the letters Ü and É are rarely used.
É indicates a stressed E at the end of a word.

The letters are divided into back and front vowels, in Swedish called "Mjuka och hårda vokaler" (Soft and hard vowels).

The soft or front vowels are:
E, I, Y, Ä, Ö

The hard or back vowels are:
A, O, U, Å


Many of the letters have two or more sounds. Sometimes one sound can be written with several letters.
The vowels usually have different sounds depending on the length.
The letter E is the only letter to have an entirely different sound when unstressed.

That's all for now. In the next lesson we're gonna talk about the sounds.