Hon skämdes lite när hon sa fel under mötet.

No, it is not passive here.

Skämdes is the past tense of skämmas, which is a deponent verb. In Swedish, deponent verbs look like passive verbs because they end in -s, but they have an active meaning.

• skämmas = to feel ashamed / to be embarrassed
• hon skämdes = she felt embarrassed / she was ashamed

So in this sentence, hon skämdes lite means she felt a little embarrassed, not she was embarrassed by someone in a passive sense.

In this sentence, embarrassed is usually the best fit.

Skämmas can cover both:

• to be ashamed
• to feel embarrassed

The context decides which one sounds most natural. Because the sentence is about saying something wrong during a meeting, English would usually say:

• She felt a little embarrassed

If the context were more serious or moral, ashamed might fit better.

Because in a normal Swedish main clause, the finite verb usually comes early, often in second position. Adverbs like lite often come after that verb.

So:

• Hon skämdes lite
  = subject + finite verb + adverb

This is very natural Swedish word order.

Compare:

• Hon är lite trött = She is a little tired
• Hon skämdes lite = She felt a little embarrassed

Here lite softens the statement, like a little, a bit, or somewhat in English.

Because Swedish needs an explicit subject in the subordinate clause too.

The sentence has:

• a main clause: Hon skämdes lite
• a subordinate clause: när hon sa fel under mötet

In English, you also repeat the subject:

• She felt a little embarrassed when she said something wrong during the meeting.

You cannot normally leave out hon in Swedish here.

Säga fel is a very common Swedish expression. It means:

• to say something incorrectly
• to say the wrong thing
• to misspeak

So hon sa fel could mean:

• she used the wrong word
• she made a verbal mistake
• she accidentally said something incorrect

It does not necessarily mean she lied or said something morally wrong. It often just means a speaking mistake.

Examples:

• Jag sa fel namn. = I said the wrong name.
• Du sa fel. = You said it wrong / You were mistaken in what you said.

Both are forms of the past tense of säga (to say).

• sa
• sade

Both are correct, but sa is more common in everyday modern Swedish. It sounds natural in both speech and informal to neutral writing.

So:

• hon sa fel = very common
• hon sade fel = also correct, but a bit more formal or old-fashioned to some speakers

The infinitive is säga = to say.

Important forms:

• säga = to say
• säger = says / is saying
• sa or sade = said
• sagt = said (supine / past participle form in some uses)

So in this sentence:

• hon sa fel = she said something wrong / she misspoke

När means when and introduces a time clause.

So:

• när hon sa fel = when she said something wrong

This tells us when she felt embarrassed.

It is a very common subordinating conjunction in Swedish.

Examples:

• När jag kom hem, åt jag. = When I got home, I ate.
• Hon log när han kom. = She smiled when he arrived.

Yes. After när, you have a subordinate clause, and Swedish subordinate clauses use a different word order from main clauses in some situations.

In this sentence:

• när hon sa fel

This is normal subordinate clause order:

• conjunction + subject + verb

A useful thing to remember is that in subordinate clauses, sentence adverbs like inte usually come before the finite verb:

• Hon sa inte fel. = main clause
• ... när hon inte sa fel ... = subordinate clause

Your example does not contain inte, but it is still a good pattern to know.

Here under mötet means during the meeting.

The word under can mean different things depending on context:

• under bordet = under the table
• under mötet = during the meeting

So in this sentence it is about time, not physical position.

Because mötet is the definite form: the meeting.

• ett möte = a meeting
• mötet = the meeting

The sentence refers to a specific meeting, so Swedish uses the definite form:

• under mötet = during the meeting

If you said under ett möte, it would mean during a meeting, with a less specific sense.

Yes, but the meaning shifts slightly.

• under mötet = during the meeting
  
  • focuses on the time period
• på mötet = at the meeting
  
  • focuses more on the event or place

In your sentence, under mötet is especially natural because the embarrassment happened while the meeting was going on.

Compare:

• Hon sa fel på mötet. = She said something wrong at the meeting.
• Hon skämdes när hon sa fel under mötet. = She felt embarrassed when she said something wrong during the meeting.

Both can work, but under fits the time relationship very well.

Because Swedish does not use do-support the way English does.

English can say:

• She did say the wrong thing
• Did she say the wrong thing?

Swedish usually just changes word order or adds emphasis in other ways.

So:

• Hon sa fel. = She said something wrong.
• Sa hon fel? = Did she say something wrong?

There is no extra verb corresponding to English do/did in ordinary sentences like this.

Yes. The whole sentence is in the past.

Past forms:

• skämdes = felt embarrassed / was embarrassed
• sa = said

So the sequence is:

1. she said something wrong
2. she felt a little embarrassed when that happened

Swedish often uses the simple past in places where English also uses the simple past.

Yes. All of those can work depending on style.

• Hon skämdes lite
  can be:
  • She was a little embarrassed
  • She felt a bit embarrassed
  • She was somewhat embarrassed

In natural English, a little or a bit is usually best here.

Also, lite often makes the statement sound softer and less strong.

Yes, two things are especially natural and idiomatic:

1. skämmas lite
   A very normal way to say someone felt somewhat embarrassed.

2. säga fel
   A very common fixed expression for saying something incorrectly or misspeaking.

So even if the sentence is simple, it sounds very natural Swedish.