Swedish Tone in Paradigms

The Swedish language has two different types of tones. They are known as the acute accent and the grave accent, or simply as tone 1 and tone 2. These tones can even vary in a single paradigm.  Here are examples with the number for the corresponding tone:

katt (1) (cat) katten (1) (the cat) katter (2) (cats) katterna (2) (the cats)

hund (1) dog hunden (1) (the dog) hundar (2) (dogs) hundarna (2) (the dogs)

komma (2) (to come) kommer (1) (come/comes) kom (1) came kommit (2) come

skriva (2) (to write) skriver (1) (write/writes) skrev (1) wrote skrivit (2) written

One of the distinctive features of Swedish is the use of two different tones in words. It shares this feature with Norwegian. The tones can create a lexical contrast as in stegen (the steps) with tone 1 and stegen (the ladder) with tone 2. These tones often vary in paradigms.