Vinnaren får en bonuspoäng.

Because -en is the Swedish definite article suffix for many en-words.

• vinnare = winner
• vinnaren = the winner

Unlike English, Swedish usually puts the at the end of the noun instead of using a separate word.

So:

• en vinnare = a winner
• vinnaren = the winner

In Swedish, the definite article is often attached to the noun itself.

So English:

• the winner

becomes Swedish:

• vinnaren

You do not normally say a separate word equivalent to the here. The ending already does that job.

Here, får means gets or receives.

It is the present tense of få.

• få = to get / to receive
• får = get(s) / receive(s)

So:

• Vinnaren får en bonuspoäng = The winner gets a bonus point

A useful thing to know: får can also mean may / is allowed to in other contexts, but in this sentence the meaning is clearly gets.

Because the sentence means a bonus point, not the bonus point.

• en bonuspoäng = a bonus point
• bonuspoängen = the bonus point

The sentence is introducing one bonus point in an indefinite way, so Swedish uses en.

Yes. Swedish very often forms compound nouns by writing them as one word.

So:

• bonus
  • poäng → bonuspoäng

This is very normal in Swedish. English sometimes writes similar expressions as two words, but Swedish usually prefers one compound word.

It follows a very basic Swedish sentence pattern:

• Vinnaren = subject
• får = verb
• en bonuspoäng = object

So the structure is:

Subject + Verb + Object

That is the same basic order English uses in a simple sentence like:

The winner gets a bonus point.

Because poäng is an en-word in Swedish.

In Swedish, nouns belong mainly to two genders/common categories:

• en-words
• ett-words

Since poäng is an en-word, compounds built on it are also treated that way, so you say:

• en poäng
• en bonuspoäng

not:

• ett bonuspoäng

The base form is vinnare.

That means winner.

Then Swedish adds the definite ending:

• vinnare = winner
• vinnaren = the winner

So if you are learning vocabulary, the dictionary form you would usually look up is vinnare.

Får is pronounced roughly like for, but with a Swedish å sound.

A few helpful points:

• å is usually a long vowel here
• it does not sound like the a in cat
• it is closer to the vowel in British English more or law, though not exactly the same

Also, får is a very common Swedish word, so it is worth getting used to hearing and saying it.

A rough guide is:

BOH-nus-po-ENG

A couple of details:

• bonus sounds fairly similar to English bonus
• poäng has two vowel sounds in sequence
• the ä in poäng sounds somewhat like the e in bed, though exact Swedish pronunciation is a bit different

The stress is usually strongest on the first part of the compound, especially bo- in bonuspoäng.

Yes. This is a very common learner question, because får has more than one meaning.

Depending on context, får can mean:

• gets / receives
• may / is allowed to
• sometimes, in the right context, something like has to live with / ends up with

But in Vinnaren får en bonuspoäng, the natural meaning is clearly:

• The winner gets a bonus point

Yes, but it would mean something a little different.

• Vinnaren får en bonuspoäng = The winner gets a bonus point
  → one point

• Vinnaren får bonuspoäng = The winner gets bonus points / receives bonus credit
  → more general, less focused on one specific point

So en is important if you want to make it clear that it is one bonus point.

For the subject:

• vinnaren = the winner
• vinnarna = the winners

For the object, Swedish often uses poäng in a form that looks the same in singular and plural, so context matters:

• en bonuspoäng = a bonus point
• bonuspoäng = bonus points in an indefinite plural sense

For example:

• Vinnarna får bonuspoäng = The winners get bonus points

Yes. It is completely natural and straightforward.

It sounds like something you might see in:

• a game
• a contest
• a classroom activity
• competition rules

It is a simple, standard sentence that uses very normal Swedish grammar.