Min resväska är tung, men jag har glömt var jag lade passet.

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Why is the adjective tung not tunga?
In Swedish, adjectives agree with the noun’s gender, number and definiteness. Here resväska is an en-word (common gender) in the indefinite singular, and it’s used predicatively (after the verb är). Predicative adjectives for en-words singular take no ending, so you say tung, not tunga. If you used it attributively before a definite noun you’d get den tunga resväskan, and in plural tunga resväskor.
Why isn’t there an article before resväska?
Swedish omits the indefinite article when a possessive pronoun is present. You can say en resväska (“a suitcase”), but once you add min (“my”), you drop en and simply say min resväska.
Why is resväska written as one word instead of two?
Swedish frequently forms compound nouns by joining two (or more) words into one. Resväska comes from resa (journey/travel) + väska (bag), so the rule is simply to glue them together: resväska.
What’s the difference between var and vart?
Both can translate as “where” in English, but var refers to location (“in/at which place?”) while vart asks about direction (“to which place?”). Since you’re forgetting the location of the passport, you use var.
Why doesn’t the clause var jag lade passet invert the word order like a question?
In Swedish subordinate clauses introduced by words like var, när, hur etc., you use normal subject–verb order (SVO), not inversion. In a direct question you’d say Var lade jag passet?, but in this embedded clause you keep jag lade.
Why is the past tense lade used instead of la?
Both la and lade are past tense forms of lägga (“to put/place”), but lade is the standard written form in contemporary Swedish. La is more colloquial and regional, so textbooks and most speakers prefer lade.
Why is har glömt (present perfect) used instead of glömde (simple past)?
Swedish uses the perfect tense to stress the present relevance of a past action—here, you have forgotten something and still don’t remember. Jag har glömt var jag lade passet emphasizes that the forgetting has an effect right now. Jag glömde var jag lade passet would simply state the event “I forgot it” without highlighting its current consequences.
Why is passet in the definite form?
You’re talking about a specific passport (the one belonging to you), so you use the definite form passet (“the passport”). If it were any passport, you’d say ett pass, but here it’s “my suitcase is heavy, but I’ve forgotten where I put the passport” — a known, definite object.