Breakdown of Vi ska gå hem så fort mötet slutar.
Gå is to move on your own legs — to walk. It is not the all-purpose English to go. Jag går till skolan means you walk the whole way there.
When a vehicle takes you, Swedish switches verb: åka if you are being carried (Jag åker buss till jobbet) and köra if you are the one driving (Jag kör bilen själv). Both come later in this course.
Gå also means to leave (Kom ihåg att låsa dörren när du går), and with timetables, machines and abstract things it means to run or to turn out: Bussen går om två minuter, Tiden går fort, Om allt går bra.
Questions & Answers about Vi ska gå hem så fort mötet slutar.
Ska is used to express a future plan or intention. In Vi ska gå hem, it means we are going to go home or we will go home.
A very literal breakdown is:
- Vi = we
- ska = shall / are going to / will
- gå hem = go home
In everyday Swedish, ska is extremely common for talking about the future.
In Swedish, hem works a lot like home in English in expressions such as go home. You normally do not use a preposition before it here.
So:
- gå hem = go home
- not gå till hem
This is very similar to English, where we say go home, not go to home.