Why doesn't Swedish capitalise every major word?

Swedish, like most languages other than English, uses sentence case for titles. Only the first word and genuine proper nouns take a capital. So a film title reads Sagan om ringen, not Sagan Om Ringen, which would look wrong to a Swedish reader.

What counts as a proper noun in Swedish?

Personal names, place names, brand names, and titles of specific works keep their capital wherever they appear. Days of the week, months, and nationalities are written in lowercase in Swedish (måndag, januari, svensk), unlike in English.

How does the tool know which words to keep capitalised?

It always capitalises the first word, then lowercases the rest except for any proper nouns you list in the protect field. Matching is case-insensitive on whole words, so adding Stockholm protects every occurrence of that name in the title.

Will it ruin acronyms like SVT or EU?

Add them to the proper-nouns field to protect their exact casing. Without that, the tool lowercases mid-title words, so list any acronyms or all-caps brand names you want preserved, and they will keep their original form.

Is this the same as a sentence-case tool?

Functionally yes for Swedish, because Swedish title case is sentence case plus protected proper nouns. The difference is the proper-noun list, which keeps names capitalised that a plain sentence-case converter would wrongly lowercase mid-title.

Swedish Title Case — Gera Tools

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English capitalises most words in a title, but Swedish does not. In Swedish — as in most European languages — even book, film, and article titles are written in sentence case: only the first word and any proper nouns take a capital. This tool converts an English-style title to correct Swedish form.

How it works

The algorithm capitalises the first word and lowercases everything else, except words you mark as proper nouns:

word 1            → capitalise first letter
all other words   → lowercase
proper nouns      → keep original capital (matched case-insensitively)

Swedish also writes days, months, and nationalities in lowercase (måndag, januari, svensk), so those naturally stay lowercase unless you protect them.

Example and tips

The English-style Sagan Om Ringen becomes the correct Sagan om ringen. If your title contains the place name Stockholm or the broadcaster SVT, add them to the proper-nouns field so they keep their capitals — for example Resa Till Stockholm with Stockholm protected yields Resa till Stockholm. Acronyms and brand names must be listed explicitly, since the tool otherwise lowercases every non-initial word.