Jag vill dansa med min vän.

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Breakdown of Jag vill dansa med min vän.

• vilja: to want
• min: my
• med: with

Questions & Answers about Jag vill dansa med min vän.

Why is there no word for to before dansa?

Because vill is a modal verb, and in Swedish modal verbs are followed by the bare infinitive.

• Jag vill dansa = I want to dance
• not Jag vill att dansa

So even though English uses to dance, Swedish does not use att after vill.

Other common modal verbs work the same way:

• Jag kan dansa = I can dance
• Jag måste dansa = I must dance

What does each word do in the sentence?

Here is the sentence broken down:

• Jag = I
  subject pronoun

• vill = want
  present tense of vilja = to want

• dansa = dance / to dance
  infinitive

• med = with
  preposition

• min = my
  possessive determiner

• vän = friend
  noun

So the structure is:

Jag + vill + dansa + med min vän
I + want + to dance + with my friend

Why is it min vän and not mitt vän or mina vän?