Questions & Answers about Hon spenderar pengar på ett nytt projekt.
What tense is spenderar, and can it mean both “spends” and “is spending”?
Spenderar is present tense. Swedish present covers both simple and progressive meanings, so Hon spenderar pengar ... can mean either “She spends money ...” or “She is spending money ...”. If you want to stress “right now,” add an adverb like just nu: Hon spenderar just nu pengar ...
Why is the preposition på used here? Could it be i or för?
With money, Swedish says spendera pengar på [något] (spend money on something). Alternatives:
- investera i [något] (invest in something): Hon investerar i ett projekt.
- satsa på [något] (back/bet on something): Hon satsar på ett projekt.
- för means “for/for the sake of”: Vi samlar in pengar för ett projekt (we’re raising money for a project), not spending them on it.
Why ett nytt projekt and not en ny projekt?
Because projekt is a neuter noun (an “ett-word”), so it takes the article ett. The adjective agrees with the noun: in neuter singular indefinite, adjectives take -t, hence nytt.
- en-ord: en ny bil
- ett-ord: ett nytt projekt