Hon säger att hon kan ringa när som helst, men jag svarar inte under mötet.

Att introduces a subordinate clause and usually corresponds to English that.

• Hon säger att hon kan ringa = She says that she can call
• After verbs like säga (say), tro (think), veta (know), and hoppas (hope), Swedish often uses att before the next clause.

In everyday speech, att is sometimes left out:

• Hon säger hon kan ringa

That is common in speech and informal writing, but keeping att is very normal and often clearer for learners.

Because kan is a modal verb, and modal verbs in Swedish are followed by the infinitive form of the main verb.

So:

• kan ringa = can call
• not kan ringer

This is similar to English:

• can call
• not can calls

Other common Swedish modal patterns work the same way:

• vill ringa = wants to call
• måste ringa = must call
• ska ringa = will/is going to call

After modal verbs like kan, Swedish normally uses the bare infinitive, without att.

So you say:

• hon kan ringa
• jag vill gå
• vi måste arbeta

not:

• hon kan att ringa

This is very similar to English, where you also say can call, not can to call.

När som helst is a fixed expression meaning any time, whenever, or at any time.

It is better to learn it as a chunk rather than translate it literally word for word.

The pattern question word + som helst is common in Swedish:

• vem som helst = anyone
• vad som helst = anything
• var som helst = anywhere
• när som helst = anytime

So som helst adds the sense of any or -ever.

Because this is a main clause, and Swedish main clauses usually follow the V2 rule: the finite verb comes early in the clause, and sentence adverbs like inte usually come after it.

So:

• jag svarar inte
• hon kan inte komma

This is different from subordinate clauses, where inte usually comes before the finite verb:

• att jag inte svarar
• att hon inte kan komma

So this sentence is a good example of a very important Swedish word-order rule.

In Swedish, svara can stand on its own and still make perfect sense, especially when the context is phone calls or messages.

So:

• Jag svarar inte naturally means I’m not answering or I’m not picking up

The object is understood from context.

You can also be more explicit in other sentences:

• Jag svarar inte i telefon under mötet = I don’t answer the phone during the meeting
• Hon svarar inte på mejl direkt = She doesn’t answer emails right away

So in your sentence, leaving the object out is completely natural.

Under mötet means during the meeting, so it focuses on the time period.

That is the best choice here because the sentence is about when the person does not answer.

Compare:

• under mötet = during the meeting
• på mötet = at the meeting
• i mötet = in the meeting

På mötet is often about being present at the event.
Under mötet emphasizes what happens during that stretch of time.

So jag svarar inte under mötet is the most natural way to say I don’t answer during the meeting.

Because Swedish usually puts the definite article at the end of the noun as a suffix.

Here:

• ett möte = a meeting
• mötet = the meeting

The noun möte is a neuter noun, so the definite ending is -t, giving mötet.

This is one of the biggest differences from English. Instead of a separate word like the, Swedish often attaches definiteness directly to the noun.

Not always. In modern Swedish, commas are often used a bit less strictly than in English.

In a sentence like this, the comma before men is common because it separates two full clauses:

• Hon säger att hon kan ringa när som helst, men jag svarar inte under mötet.

You may also see it without a comma in some contexts, especially in less formal writing. But using the comma here is clear and natural.

In this sentence, the subordinate clause after att has normal Swedish subordinate-clause order:

• att hon kan ringa

The subject hon comes before the finite verb kan.

The really important thing to know is this: in subordinate clauses, words like inte and other sentence adverbs usually come before the finite verb. For example:

• att hon inte kan ringa

So while att itself does not force inversion, it does introduce a subordinate clause, and subordinate clauses follow different word-order rules from main clauses.

In careful Standard Swedish, jag is often pronounced something like yahg or yaag, but in everyday speech the final g is often weakened or almost disappears.

So learners may hear forms closer to:

• jag
• ja
• ya

That is normal in spoken Swedish.

The spelling stays jag, but the pronunciation can vary depending on region and speaking style. This often surprises English speakers, because the written and spoken forms do not always line up neatly.