Does Swedish put articles in front of names too?
No not at all, like all Nordic languages suffixes are used. Some examples:

Stol= yepp, Стул (chair for those not aware of this meaning, pronounced the same)

Adding the article in singular:

Stolen= the chair

And in plural

Stolarna= the chairs.


Pojke, Pojken, Pojkarna. = Boy, the boy, the boys.

Or

Tak, taket, taken. = roof, the roof, the rooves
(on the rooftops - p