 As with many Germanic languages , new words can be formed by compounding , e.g. nouns like <unk> ( " nail polish remover " ) or verbs like <unk> ( " to film in secret " ) . Similar to German or Dutch , very long , and quite impractical , examples like <unk> ( " 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 <unk> of nouns by the adding of the suffix -a , as in bil ( " car " ) and <unk> ( " travel ( recreationally ) by car " ) . The opposite , making nouns of verbs , is also possible , as in <unk> ( " way of thinking ; concept " ) from <unk> ( " to think " ) . 
