How do Scandinavian languages form yes-or-no questions?

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Scandinavian languages Distribution of the Germanic languages in Europe.

In Scandinavian languages, the formation of yes-or-no questions relies on a specific syntactic structure involving verb placement.

In standard declarative main clauses, the finite verb typically occupies the second position, usually preceded by the subject. However, in yes-or-no questions, the preverbal position is left empty, and the finite verb is moved to the front of the sentence. When the subject does not precede the verb in this structure, it follows it.1