 It was during the 20th century that a common , standardized national language became available to all Swedes . The orthography was finally stabilized , and was almost completely uniform , with the exception of some minor deviations , by the time of the spelling reform of 1906 . With the exception of plural forms of verbs and a slightly different syntax , particularly in the written language , the language was the same as the Swedish of today . The plural verb forms appeared decreasingly in formal writing into the 1950s , when their use was removed from all official recommendations . 
