A European Informational Website
learn more
In linguistic typology, subject-verb-object (SVO), is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third. Languages may be classified according to the dominant sequence of these elements. The SVO and Subject Object Verb orders are by far the two most common, accounting for more than 75% of the world's languages which have a preferred order.[1] English[2], Arabic, Finnish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Khmer, the Romance languages, Russian, Bulgarian, Kiswahili, Hausa, Yoruba, Quiche, Guaraní, Javanese, Malay, Portuguese, Rotuman and Indonesian are examples of languages that can follow an SVO pattern. All the Scandinavian languages follow this order also but change to VSO when asking a question.