 As with many Germanic languages , new words can be formed by compounding , e.g. nouns like nagellackborttagningsmedel ( " nail polish remover " ) or verbs like smygfilma ( " to film in secret " ) . Similar to German or Dutch , very long , and quite impractical , examples like produktionsstyrningssystemsprogramvaruuppdatering ( " production controller system software update " ) are possible , but it is seldom this ungainly , at least in spoken Swedish and outside of technical writing . Compound nouns take their gender from the head , which in Swedish is always the last morpheme . New words can also be coined by derivation from other established words , such as the verbification of nouns by the adding of the suffix -a , as in bil ( " car " ) and bila ( " travel ( recreationally ) by car " ) . The opposite , making nouns of verbs , is also possible , as in tänk ( " way of thinking ; concept " ) from tänka ( " to think " ) . 
