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This list is inspired by @arabskaya-devushka‘s new year Arabic vocabulary post

Swedish new year is pretty similar to new year in other places but we do have some traditions. One is watching the skit “Grevinnan och betjänten” (link has Swedish subtitles). Another one is a live broadcasting from Skansen (a big outdoors museum about Sweden in Stockholm) with the most important part being when someone recites the poem “Nyårsklockan” right before midnight. This is a tradition since 1895 (but it obviously wasn’t televised back then, it was on the radio between 1934–1955 and has been televised since 1977). Other than these two we party, shoot fireworks and drink champagne. 

gott nytt år – happy new year

alkoholen – alcohol 
champagnen – champagne
december – December

festen/partyt – party
freden – peace
fyrverkeriet – firework
januari – January
kyssen – kiss
kärleken – love
lyckan/glädjen – happiness

löftet – resolution
midnatten – midnight
målet – goals
ny – new 
nytt år – new year 
nyåret – new year (as in a shortened form of new year’s eve)
nyårsaftonen – new year’s eve
nyårsfesten/nyårsfirandet – new year’s celebration
nyårslöftet – new year’s resolution
planen – plan
tolvslaget – when the clock strikes twelve
önskningen – wish 

bestämma – to decide
dansa – to dance
hoppas – to hope
fira – to celebrate
planera – to plan
önska – to wish

Vad gjorde du på nyår? – What did you do on new year?
Har du några nyårslöften? – Do you have any new year’s resolutions?
Champagnen tog slut långt innan tolvslaget. – The champagne was gone long before the clock struck twelve. 

Other new year vocab posts: Arabic, Japanese, Finnish, Maltese, Norwegian, French, Turkish and English-French-Spanish (I’m sure there are more but these were the ones I found)