Word
Matavfallet ligger i komposten.
Meaning
The food scraps are in the compost.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Matavfallet ligger i komposten.
i
in
ligga
to lie
matavfallet
the food scraps
komposten
the compost
Questions & Answers about Matavfallet ligger i komposten.
Why does matavfallet end in -et?
Because Swedish usually puts the at the end of the noun instead of using a separate word in front.
- matavfall = food waste
- matavfallet = the food waste
The ending -et is used because matavfall is a neuter noun: ett matavfall.
A useful thing to know is that the last part of a compound decides the gender. Here, the last part is avfall, and avfall is a neuter noun, so the whole compound is neuter too.
What does matavfall literally mean?
It is a compound noun:
- mat = food
- avfall = waste
So matavfall literally means food waste.
This is very common in Swedish: instead of using several separate words, Swedish often builds one long compound noun.
Why is ligger used instead of är?