World languages make use of numerous syntactic types. The most frequently occurring word order, also represented in Swedish and Polish, is the SVO structure (subject, verb, object). In all languages, however, there are certain possibilities for modifying the sentence pattern depending on the sender’s communicative intention. In Swedish, in which the word order performs a grammatical function, the available options are less numerous than in Polish, where the existence of the inflectional system allows for a considerable freedom of the sentence word order. In this paper we will present the most frequent language strategies used in Swedish in order to express the theme-rheme semantic value of utterances. Swedish examples will be juxtaposed with their Polish translations.