MacFolket

A Swedish–English dictionary for macOS, integrated into Dictionary.app and system-wide look-up.

Usage

• Force-click (deep press) a word on the trackpad
• Select a word and press ⌃⌘D (Control+Command+D)
• Open Dictionary.app and search directly

Installation

The dictionary can live in one of two places:

Location	Scope	Requires admin
~/Library/Dictionaries	Current user only	No
/Library/Dictionaries	All users on the Mac	Yes

Homebrew (recommended)

brew tap hashier/tap
brew install --cask macfolket

Installs to ~/Library/Dictionaries (current user). Updatable via brew upgrade.

Installer package

Download the latest .pkg from the Releases page and open it.

Note: The pkg installer places the dictionary in /Library/Dictionaries (system-wide, all users, requires root). If you only need it for yourself, use Homebrew or the manual zip instead.

If macOS blocks the installer because it's from an unidentified developer, right-click (or Ctrl-click) the .pkg file and choose Open from the context menu.

Manual (zip)

Download the .zip from the Releases page, unzip it, and copy the Svensk-English.dictionary bundle into either location above.

After installing

Open Dictionary.app → Settings (Cmd+,) and enable the Svensk-English dictionary.

Building from source

git clone https://github.com/hashier/MacFolket.git
cd MacFolket
make            # fetches dictionary data, converts, and builds
make install    # copies to ~/Library/Dictionaries

Other useful targets:

Target	Description
make pkg	Build a .pkg installer (requires Xcode CLI tools)
make zip	Build a .zip archive of the dictionary bundle
make release	Clean build, create pkg + zip, push a GitHub release, and update the Homebrew tap
make validate	Validate the XML against Apple's schema (requires jing)
make clean	Remove build artifacts
make pristine	Remove build artifacts and downloaded dictionary data

Caveats

• Only the first entry is displayed in pop-up mode instead of all (e.g. "boken" shows only "beech") but you will see all of them in dictionary.app.

Thanks to

Philipp Brauner who build an English <-> German dictionary which I have used now for a couple of years. His plugin gave me the idea to build an English <-> Swedish one. You can find his English <-> German one here.