War and crisis is a consistent theme in this year's new word list.

The British dictionary Collins named "permacrisis" as the word of the year and "permakris" - 

"a series of crises with no end point in sight, state of permanent crisis"

also appears in the Swedish new word list.

Even words like Putin prize, energy war, energy poverty, food poverty, hunger stone and kamikaze drones point to a difficult year.

- If you think that last year's and the year before last's lists were quite depressing, this one is if possible even more depressing, says Ola Karlsson, language conservator at the Institute for Languages ​​and Folklore, who produces the new word list.

To come up with the words, you look at which words have either appeared for the first time, or have become much more common over the past year.

The Institute for Language and Folklore mainly looks at media texts and about a third of the new words usually find their way into the Swedish dictionaries eventually, while some disappear quite quickly, according to Ola Karlsson. 

Fills a semantic gap

He says that you look for a balance between the words that describe the present and those that can conceivably last.

A word that Ola Karlsson believes will have a long-lasting hold has already been found in Norwegian and Danish, but has now found its way into the Swedish language.

- Above all, we want to reward words that fill a late semantic gap, which people think are needed, but which may not have existed before.

One such word is "anticipatory grief" - feeling sad that a loved one will die.

I think it will be easier to talk about that grief when there is an established word for it, he says.

See more in the clip.

All new words can be found in the fact box and in Spåtidningen.