På min profil vill jag bara visa bilder som jag själv tycker om.

På min profil means on my profile.

Swedish often uses på for things like pages, profiles, websites, and surfaces where something appears. So:

• på min profil = on my profile
• på Facebook
• på sidan = on the page

If you said just min profil, that would mean my profile, but it would not express the idea of something being shown on it.

This is because Swedish has V2 word order in main clauses. That means the finite verb usually comes in the second position.

The sentence begins with På min profil, so that takes the first position. The verb must then come next:

• På min profil vill jag ...

Compare:

• Jag vill bara visa bilder ...
• På min profil vill jag bara visa bilder ...

Both are correct. When you move something to the front, Swedish usually inverts the subject and verb:

• Jag vill
• På min profil vill jag

This is very common and important in Swedish.

After vill, Swedish normally uses the infinitive without att.

So:

• jag vill visa = I want to show
• not jag vill att visa

This is similar to English want to show, but Swedish does not use a separate word corresponding to to here.

Other common verbs that also take the infinitive without att include:

• kan = can
• ska = will / shall / going to
• måste = must
• får = may / get to

For example:

• Jag kan visa.
• Jag ska visa.
• Jag måste visa.

Bara means only or just.

In this sentence:

• vill jag bara visa bilder ...

it means something like I only want to show pictures...

The placement of bara affects what it emphasizes. Here it naturally modifies the action visa bilder.

So the sentence suggests:

• I don’t want to show everything,
• I just want to show pictures that I myself like.

Swedish word order with bara can vary, but this position is very natural.

Compare:

• Jag vill bara visa bilder ... = I only want to show pictures...
• Jag bara vill visa bilder ... = less natural here
• Bara jag vill visa bilder ... = means something else

Bilder means pictures in a general sense.

• bilder = pictures
• bilderna = the pictures

In this sentence, the speaker is talking about pictures generally, not a specific known set of pictures. So bilder is the natural choice.

Compare:

• Jag vill visa bilder som jag själv tycker om.
  = I want to show pictures that I myself like.

• Jag vill visa bilderna som jag själv tycker om.
  = I want to show the pictures that I myself like.
  This sounds more like a specific group of pictures already known in the context.

Som here means that, which, or who in a relative clause.

It connects bilder with the extra information about them:

• bilder som jag själv tycker om
• pictures that I myself like

So som introduces a clause describing bilder.

A few more examples:

• mannen som bor där = the man who lives there
• boken som jag läser = the book that I am reading
• filmer som hon gillar = films that she likes

In everyday Swedish, som is extremely common in relative clauses.

Yes, jag alone would be grammatically enough:

• ... bilder som jag tycker om

But själv adds emphasis. It means something like:

• I myself
• personally
• myself

So:

• bilder som jag själv tycker om

means that the speaker is emphasizing their own personal taste.

It can suggest:

• not what others like,
• not what is popular,
• but what I personally like.

This is a very natural use of själv.

Here själv is an emphatic word, not a reflexive pronoun.

It strengthens the subject:

• jag själv = I myself
• du själv = you yourself
• hon själv = she herself

In this sentence, it does not mean alone. It means personally / myself.

Compare these different uses:

• Jag gjorde det själv. = I did it myself.
• Jag bor själv. = I live alone.

So the meaning of själv depends on context.

Because tycka om is the expression that means to like.

• tycka om någon/något = to like someone/something

But tycka by itself usually means to think, to have an opinion, or to find.

Compare:

• Jag tycker om den här låten. = I like this song.
• Jag tycker att den här låten är bra. = I think this song is good.

So in your sentence:

• bilder som jag själv tycker om

means pictures that I myself like.

Because tycka om is a verb plus particle/preposition-like element, and Swedish often places that final element later in the clause.

In this sentence:

• som jag själv tycker om

the object is understood through som, and om stays at the end.

This is similar to English in some cases:

• the person I was talking to
• the song I was thinking about

You can think of tycka om as a unit meaning like, even though the parts can appear separated in a clause.

Yes, absolutely.

You could say:

• På min profil vill jag bara visa bilder som jag själv gillar.

This also means On my profile, I only want to show pictures that I myself like.

The difference is mainly one of style and nuance:

• gilla = very common, everyday, straightforward
• tycka om = also common, sometimes a little softer or more personal

In many contexts they are interchangeable.

It is there because of how the relative clause is built:

• som jag själv tycker om

The relative word som stands for the object, so the sentence does not repeat it after the verb. As a result, om ends up at the end.

You can compare it with a full sentence:

• Jag tycker om bilderna. = I like the pictures.

Now turn that into a relative clause:

• bilder som jag tycker om = pictures that I like

So the object position is represented by som, and om remains at the end.

Yes. A very neutral version would be:

• Jag vill bara visa bilder som jag själv tycker om på min profil.

This is also correct.

The original sentence:

• På min profil vill jag bara visa bilder som jag själv tycker om.

puts På min profil first for emphasis or topic. It sounds like:

• As for my profile...
• On my profile...

So the difference is mostly about focus, not basic meaning.

It is an en-word:

• en profil
• profilen

That is why you get:

• min profil

not mitt profil

Some examples:

• en profil
• min profil
• profilen är fin = the profile is nice

Both are in the present tense:

• vill = want
• tycker = like / think

Swedish often uses the present tense in cases where English may also use the present tense:

• Jag vill visa ... = I want to show ...
• jag tycker om ... = I like ...

The sentence expresses a current desire and a general preference, so present tense is the natural choice.

It can suggest both, depending on context.

In a social media or profile context, visa bilder can naturally mean:

• show pictures
• display pictures
• have pictures visible

If you wanted to be more specific about uploading or posting, Swedish might also use verbs like:

• lägga upp bilder = upload/post pictures
• publicera bilder = publish pictures

But in your sentence, visa bilder works well because the focus is on what is visible on the profile, not necessarily on the act of uploading.