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Learn Hardcore Swedish: Våra gäster kommer snart. - Our guests are coming soon.

Hardcore Swedish
/Lesson 8
/Våra gäster kommer snart.

Våra gäster kommer snart.

Word

Våra gäster kommer snart.

Meaning

Our guests are coming soon.

Part of speech

sentence

Pronunciation

Course

Hardcore Swedish

Lesson

Breakdown of Våra gäster kommer snart.

Questions & Answers about Våra gäster kommer snart.

Why is it våra and not vår or vårt?

Swedish possessive determiners agree with the noun they modify:

vår
- singular common-gender (en-word): vår gäst (our guest)
vårt
- singular neuter (ett-word): vårt hus (our house)
våra
- any plural noun: våra gäster, våra hus

Because gäster is plural, you must use våra.

Why is it gäster and not gästerna? Can I say våra gästerna?

With possessives (min/din/hans/hennes/vår/er/deras), Swedish uses the indefinite form of the noun. So it’s våra gäster, not våra gästerna.

Correct: Våra gäster kommer snart.
Incorrect: Våra gästerna kommer snart.
If you want “the guests” without a possessive: Gästerna kommer snart.

How is gäst inflected?

Singular indefinite: en gäst
Singular definite: gästen
Plural indefinite: gäster
Plural definite: gästerna
Note the plural adds -er and the noun has a vowel alternation (gäst → gäster).

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Where does snart go, and is the word order here normal?

Yes. In a main clause with a subject first, the finite verb is in second position and time adverbs like snart typically follow the verb:

Våra gäster kommer snart.
If you front the time adverb, Swedish is verb-second (V2), so you invert:
Snart kommer våra gäster.
Don’t say: “Våra gäster snart kommer.”

Can I use ska or kommer att to talk about the future instead?

Yes, but nuances differ:

Våra gäster kommer snart. Natural and most common for arrivals.
Våra gäster ska snart komma. More about plan/arrangement or intention.
Våra gäster kommer att komma snart. Grammatical but clunky here; use it mainly for neutral predictions with other verbs.
You can also use a more formal arrival verb: Våra gäster anländer snart. (formal). For schedules (trains, flights): ankommer is common.

Do Swedish verbs change for person or number?

No. Verbs don’t agree with the subject. Present tense of komma is kommer for all persons and numbers:

Jag/Han/Vi/De kommer.

Do I need hit to make it clear they are coming here?

Not strictly. komma usually implies movement toward the speaker or understood place. To be explicit:

Våra gäster kommer snart hit. (coming here)
Våra gäster kommer snart hem. (coming home)
Våra gäster kommer snart till hotellet. (coming to the hotel)
Placing: both kommer snart hit and kommer hit snart occur; kommer snart hit is very natural.

How do I negate this?

Not soon: Våra gäster kommer inte snart. (They won’t arrive soon.)
Not coming (at all): Våra gäster kommer inte.
In main clauses, place inte after the finite verb. If you front an adverbial, keep V2: Snart kommer våra gäster inte sounds odd; prefer the versions above.

How do you pronounce it?

Approximate Standard Swedish:

Våra: [ˈvoːra] (å = long “o” sound)
gäster: [ˈjɛstɛr] (g before ä is the “y”/j-sound)
kommer: [ˈkɔmːɛr] (short o like British “lot”; double m = long m)
snart: [snɑːʈ] (rt becomes a retroflex t)
A rough English-friendly guide: “VOH-ra YEST-er KOM-mer snaart.”

What if I add an adjective, like “our nice guests”?

Keep the noun in the (morphological) indefinite after a possessive:

Våra trevliga gäster kommer snart.
Without a possessive but with definiteness, Swedish uses “double definiteness”:
De trevliga gästerna kommer snart.

Are colloquial forms like våran or vårat okay?

They’re common in informal speech in many regions, but standard written Swedish prefers vår/vårt/våra. In writing (and in careful speech), use the standard forms.

What are alternatives to snart, and do they differ?

strax: very soon/shortly (often minutes) — Våra gäster kommer strax.
om en stund: in a little while.
snarast: as soon as possible/at the earliest opportunity (more formal or urgent).
snart nog: soon enough (stylistic).

What are the key forms of komma, and how do I say this in past or perfect?

Infinitive: komma
Present: kommer
Preterite: kom
Supine: kommit
Examples:
Past: Våra gäster kom nyss. (Our guests arrived just now.)
Perfect: Våra gäster har kommit. (Our guests have arrived.)

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