Nästa vecka ska varje elev presentera sig själv för gruppen.

Swedish often puts a time expression first when setting the scene, just like English can do with Next week.

When something other than the subject comes first in a main clause, Swedish still keeps the finite verb in second position. That is why the sentence is:

Nästa vecka ska varje elev ...

and not:

Nästa vecka varje elev ska ...

This is a very important Swedish word-order rule, often called V2 word order.

Because of that same V2 rule.

In a main clause, the finite verb must come second. Here, Nästa vecka takes the first position, so ska must come second, and the subject varje elev comes after it.

So the structure is:

• Nästa vecka = first position
• ska = second position, finite verb
• varje elev = subject

If the sentence started with the subject instead, it would be:

Varje elev ska presentera sig själv för gruppen nästa vecka.

That is also correct.

Here ska means something like will / is going to / is supposed to.

It is the present tense of ska from skola, and it is commonly used to talk about:

• future actions
• plans
• expectations
• obligations, depending on context

In this sentence, it most naturally means that next week each student will or is expected to introduce themselves.

Yes, often you could.

For example:

Nästa vecka kommer varje elev att presentera sig själv för gruppen.

That also means Next week each student will introduce themselves to the group.

A rough difference is:

• ska often sounds a bit more like a plan, schedule, instruction, or expectation
• kommer att is a more neutral future marker

In a school/classroom context, ska sounds very natural.

Because varje means each, and after varje, Swedish normally uses a singular noun.

So:

• varje elev = each student
• not varje elever

Even though the meaning refers to many people one by one, the grammar is singular.

Both are possible, but they are slightly different in emphasis.

• presentera sig = introduce oneself / introduce oneself to others
• presentera sig själv = introduce oneself, with extra emphasis on oneself

In many situations, sig alone is enough:

Varje elev ska presentera sig för gruppen.

Adding själv makes it more explicit and can sound a bit more emphatic or complete.

Sig is the reflexive pronoun used when the object refers back to the subject.

So in this sentence, each student is presenting themself, not someone else.

Compare:

• Eleven presenterar sig. = The student introduces themself.
• Eleven presenterar honom. = The student introduces him.
• Eleven presenterar henne. = The student introduces her.

A useful thing to remember is that sig does not change for gender. It is used for he/she/they when the meaning is reflexive in the third person.

Själv means self or oneself.

In sig själv, it strengthens the reflexive meaning:

• sig = oneself
• sig själv = oneself, with added emphasis

It is similar to the difference between:

• He introduced himself
• He introduced himself personally / himself, not someone else

In many everyday contexts, sig by itself is enough, but sig själv is perfectly correct.

With presentera sig, Swedish usually uses för when you mean in front of or to an audience/group.

So:

presentera sig för gruppen = introduce oneself to the group

Using till here would sound unnatural in standard Swedish.

Think of för in this case as matching the idea of presenting yourself before / to a group.

Gruppen is the definite form, meaning the group.

So:

• en grupp = a group
• gruppen = the group

In this sentence, it refers to a specific group already understood from the context, such as the class group.

Yes. Swedish allows different word orders depending on what you want to emphasize, but the V2 rule still applies in main clauses.

For example:

Varje elev ska presentera sig själv för gruppen nästa vecka.
This starts with the subject and sounds very neutral.

För gruppen ska varje elev presentera sig själv nästa vecka.
This is grammatically possible, but much less natural unless you want special emphasis on för gruppen.

The original sentence is very natural because it starts with the time phrase.

The tricky part is the sj sound, which is one of the classic difficult Swedish sounds for English speakers.

In själv, the beginning is not like English s or sh exactly. The sound varies somewhat by region, but it is usually a kind of soft, breathy sh-like sound.

Very roughly, you can think of själv as sounding something like:

hyelv / shelv
—but that is only an approximation.

Also:

• ä is like a short open vowel, somewhat like the vowel in English bed, but not identical
• the lv cluster at the end should be pronounced clearly

If you want, I can also break the whole sentence down word by word for pronunciation.