Questions & Answers about Jag ska träffa Sara i eftermiddag.
What does ska mean here?
Here ska is used to talk about a planned future action. In this sentence, Jag ska träffa Sara i eftermiddag means that meeting Sara is something the speaker intends or expects to do later today.
A useful way to think of it is:
- ska + infinitive = am going to / will / am supposed to
So Jag ska träffa Sara is very close to I’m going to meet Sara.
Why is the verb träffa in its basic form?
Because träffa comes after ska, which is a modal-type helper verb. After ska, the main verb stays in the infinitive, which is the dictionary form.
So:
- ska träffa = am going to meet
- not ska träffar
This is similar to English, where we say will meet, not will meets.
Why is there no att before träffa?
After ska, Swedish normally does not use att.
So you say:
- Jag ska träffa Sara
- not Jag ska att träffa Sara
This is the same pattern you get with several common helper verbs in Swedish.