Questions & Answers about Vi drejar och dekorerar vasen tillsammans.
What does drejar mean here? Is it just make?
Not exactly. Drejar comes from dreja, which is specifically to throw/shape clay on a potter’s wheel.
So in this sentence, Vi drejar och dekorerar vasen tillsammans has a pottery-related sense:
- drejar = shape it on the wheel
- dekorerar = decorate it
A more general verb like gör would just mean make, but drejar is much more specific.
Why is it vasen and not en vas?
Vasen is the definite singular form of vas.
- en vas = a vase
- vasen = the vase
In Swedish, definiteness is often added as an ending:
- en bok → boken
- en stol → stolen
- en vas → vasen
So vasen means that the speaker is talking about a specific vase, not just any vase.
Why are both verbs in the form drejar and dekorerar?