Kan du uttala det här ordet långsamt?

In Swedish, yes-no questions usually begin with the finite verb. Here, the finite verb is kan.

So the normal statement order would be:

• Du kan uttala det här ordet långsamt.

To make it a question, Swedish moves the verb first:

• Kan du uttala det här ordet långsamt?

This verb-first pattern is very common in Swedish questions.

It can mean both, but in this sentence it is most naturally understood as a request.

Literally, Kan du means can you. But just like in English, Swedish often uses can you to ask someone to do something:

• Kan du hjälpa mig? = Can you help me?
• Kan du säga det igen? = Can you say it again?

So here, the speaker is not really testing whether the person has the ability to pronounce the word. They are politely asking them to do it.

Because kan is a modal verb, and modal verbs in Swedish are followed by the infinitive without att.

So:

• kan uttala = can pronounce
• not kan uttalar
• not kan att uttala

This is the same pattern you see with other modal verbs:

• Jag vill läsa. = I want to read.
• Hon måste gå. = She must go.
• Vi ska äta. = We are going to eat.

So uttala is the infinitive form, and that is exactly what Swedish needs after kan.

Because ord is a neuter noun in Swedish.

Swedish nouns have two grammatical genders:

• en words, also called common gender
• ett words, also called neuter

The noun ord is an ett word:

• ett ord = a word

So when you say this word, you use the neuter demonstrative:

• det här ordet

Compare:

• den här boken = this book, because bok is an en word
• det här ordet = this word, because ord is an ett word

Because in Swedish, after den här, det här, and de här, the noun is usually in the definite form.

So Swedish says:

• det här ordet = this word

not normally:

• det här ord

This is a very important pattern:

• den här bilen = this car
• det här huset = this house
• de här böckerna = these books

The noun ordet is made from:

• ord = word
• -et = the definite ending for this neuter noun

So ordet means the word, and Swedish uses that definite form in this kind of phrase.

Literally, här means here. But in the pattern den här or det här, it works together with den/det to mean this.

So:

• det här ordet = this word
• det där ordet = that word

You can think of it as a Swedish way of building demonstratives:

• det här = this
• det där = that

This is very common in spoken and everyday Swedish.

Yes. Detta ord is also correct and means the same thing.

The difference is mostly style:

• det här ordet is more common in everyday spoken Swedish
• detta ord is more formal, written, or bookish

There is also a grammar difference:

• det här ordet uses a definite noun
• detta ord uses an indefinite noun

So both are correct, but det här ordet sounds more natural in ordinary conversation.

Because långsamt is an adverb here, not an adjective.

• långsam = slow, describing a noun
• långsamt = slowly, describing how something is done

In this sentence, it describes the action uttala:

• uttala långsamt = pronounce slowly

Swedish often forms this kind of adverb using the -t form of the adjective:

• snabb → snabbt = quickly
• tydlig → tydligt = clearly
• långsam → långsamt = slowly

So långsamt is the correct form because it tells us how the pronunciation should be done.

Not completely, but the position in this sentence is the most natural and neutral one.

• Kan du uttala det här ordet långsamt?

This sounds very normal.

You might also hear:

• Kan du långsamt uttala det här ordet?

That is possible, but it puts a bit more emphasis on slowly and may sound less neutral.

So for a learner, the safest version is the original one with långsamt at the end.

A careful learner-friendly pronunciation might be broken up like this:

• Kan du
• uttala
• det här ordet
• långsamt

Some useful points:

• uttala has the main stress on ta
• det is often reduced in speech, so det här may sound close to de här
• ordet has stress on the first syllable
• långsamt has stress on lång

A rough English-friendly approximation could be:

• kahn du u-TAH-la de hair OOR-det LONG-samt

But that is only approximate. The vowels are not exactly like English vowels, especially in du, ordet, and långsamt.

If you want to sound more natural, one very useful detail is this:

• det här is often pronounced more smoothly and quickly than the spelling suggests

So in real speech, the whole sentence may sound more connected and less word-by-word than an English speaker expects.