Polisanmälan görs på polisstationen.

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Breakdown of Polisanmälan görs på polisstationen.

• göra: to make
• polisanmälan: the police report
• polisstationen: the police station

Questions & Answers about Polisanmälan görs på polisstationen.

Why is polisanmälan written as one word?

Because Swedish usually writes compound nouns as a single word. Here, polis + anmälan becomes polisanmälan.

This is very normal in Swedish. English often uses two words where Swedish uses one: police report → polisanmälan train station → tågstation

So for a Swedish learner, it is good to expect lots of one-word compounds.

What form is görs?

Görs is the present passive form of göra.

• gör = does / makes
• görs = is done / is made

So grammatically, Polisanmälan görs ... means something like The police report is made/filed ...

In natural English, is filed may sound better than the very literal is done.

Why is polisanmälan at the beginning of the sentence?

Because this sentence is passive.

In an active sentence, you might say: Man gör en polisanmälan på polisstationen. = You/one/people make/file a police report at the police station.

When Swedish changes that into the passive, the thing affected by the action becomes the grammatical subject: Polisanmälan görs på polisstationen.

So even though polisanmälan feels like the object in English, in this Swedish sentence it functions as the subject.