Gitarrsolot kommer efter refrängen.

Because Swedish usually writes compounds as a single word.

So English guitar solo becomes Swedish gitarrsolo:

• gitarr = guitar
• solo = solo

When one noun describes another, Swedish normally combines them:

• sommarjobb = summer job
• fotbollsmatch = football match
• gitarrsolo = guitar solo

This is very common, and writing it as two words would usually look wrong in Swedish.

The -t is the definite ending, meaning the.

The base noun is:

• ett gitarrsolo = a guitar solo

Since gitarrsolo is an ett-word (a neuter noun), its definite singular form is:

• gitarrsolot = the guitar solo

So Swedish often puts the at the end of the noun instead of using a separate word.

A useful pattern:

• ett solo → solot
• ett äpple → äpplet
• ett hus → huset

Because refräng is an en-word (a common-gender noun), not an ett-word.

Its forms are:

• en refräng = a chorus
• refrängen = the chorus

So the definite singular ending depends on the noun’s gender:

• en-word → usually -en
• ett-word → usually -et or -t

Here you have:

• gitarrsolot because gitarrsolo is an ett-word
• refrängen because refräng is an en-word

Because Swedish often expresses definiteness by adding an ending to the noun.

Instead of a separate article like English the, Swedish commonly uses a suffix:

• solot = the solo
• refrängen = the chorus

So in this sentence, both nouns are already definite.

However, if there is an adjective, Swedish often uses both a separate definite word and the ending:

• det långa gitarrsolot = the long guitar solo

That is called double definiteness, and it is very common in Swedish.

Yes, kommer literally means comes, but here it is used in the sense of comes after or follows in sequence.

In Swedish, komma efter can describe order, not just physical movement.

So this sentence is talking about the order of parts in a song:

• one part comes after another

This is very natural Swedish. In this context, kommer efter is better than trying to translate too literally with something like is after.

You might be understood, but Gitarrsolot kommer efter refrängen sounds more natural when talking about sequence in a song.

Why?

• kommer efter suggests that one section follows another in time/order
• är efter sounds more like location or placement and is less idiomatic here

So for the structure of a song, kommer efter is the better choice.

The word order is very straightforward:

• Gitarrsolot = subject
• kommer = verb
• efter refrängen = prepositional phrase

So the pattern is:

subject + verb + other information

That is normal Swedish main-clause word order.

A very useful thing to know: Swedish is a verb-second language. If you move something else to the front, the verb still stays in second position:

• Efter refrängen kommer gitarrsolot.

That is also correct, and it means the same thing with a different emphasis.

Because the sentence refers to a specific chorus in the song, so Swedish uses the definite form.

• efter refrängen = after the chorus

If you said efter en refräng, that would mean after a chorus, which sounds more general or less specific.

Bare singular count nouns like refräng usually do not stand alone in Swedish the way they sometimes can in English.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

• gitarrsolot ≈ yi-TARR-so-loht
• refrängen ≈ reh-FRENG-en

A few helpful notes:

• In gitarr, the g sounds like English y because it comes before i
• The stress in gitarrsolot is mainly on -tarr-
• ä in refrängen is somewhat like the e in bed
• The ng sound in refräng is like the ng in English song

These are only rough English approximations, but they are a useful start.

Yes, kommer is the present tense of komma.

Here, the present tense is used to describe a general fact about the song’s structure:

• the guitar solo comes after the chorus

This is normal in both Swedish and English. You are not really talking about something happening right now; you are stating how the song is arranged.

So present tense works well for:

• descriptions
• general facts
• instructions
• sequences in music, stories, or plans