Jag pratar med tjejen om mobilabonnemanget.

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Breakdown of Jag pratar med tjejen om mobilabonnemanget.

• prata: to talk
• med: with
• om: about

Questions & Answers about Jag pratar med tjejen om mobilabonnemanget.

Why is there no separate word for the in tjejen and mobilabonnemanget?

In Swedish, the definite article is usually attached to the end of the noun instead of being a separate word.

• tjej = girl

• tjejen = the girl

• mobilabonnemang = mobile subscription / phone plan
• mobilabonnemanget = the mobile subscription / the phone plan

So Swedish often says the-girl and the-subscription as one word.

Why is it tjejen with -en, but mobilabonnemanget with -et?

That depends on the grammatical gender of the noun.

Swedish nouns are mainly divided into two genders:

• en-words
• ett-words

tjej is an en-word, so the definite singular ending is -en:

• en tjej
• tjejen

mobilabonnemang is an ett-word, so the definite singular ending is -et:

• ett mobilabonnemang
• mobilabonnemanget

This is a very common pattern in Swedish.