Jag fyller hinken i badrummet, och sedan skurar jag golvet.

Because hinken is the definite form of hink.

• en hink = a bucket
• hinken = the bucket

In Swedish, definiteness is usually shown by adding an ending to the noun rather than putting a separate word like the in front.

Here:

• Jag fyller hinken = I fill the bucket

If you said Jag fyller en hink, it would mean I fill a bucket, which is less specific.

For the same reason: golvet is the definite form.

• ett golv = a floor
• golvet = the floor

So:

• jag skurar golvet = I scrub the floor

Swedish often uses the definite form where English uses the.

It depends on the noun’s gender.

Swedish nouns are mainly of two common genders:

• en-words
• ett-words

Examples from this sentence:

• en hink → hinken
• ett badrum → badrummet
• ett golv → golvet

So the pattern is often:

• en-word → add -en
• ett-word → add -et

This is why you get:

• hinken
• badrummet
• golvet

Fyller is the present tense of fylla, which means to fill.

So:

• jag fyller = I fill / I am filling

In this sentence, Jag fyller hinken means I fill the bucket.

Swedish present tense often covers both:

• I fill
• I am filling

depending on context.

Because Swedish, like English, can leave that understood from context.

• Jag fyller hinken = I fill the bucket

If needed, you could make it more explicit:

• Jag fyller hinken med vatten = I fill the bucket with water

But if the situation is obvious, Swedish often leaves that unsaid.

In normal reading, i badrummet most naturally tells you where the action happens:

• Jag fyller hinken i badrummet = I fill the bucket in the bathroom

So it usually modifies the verb phrase, not the noun by itself.

If you really wanted to stress that it is the bucket in the bathroom, Swedish would often make that clearer in another way, for example with extra context.

This is a very important Swedish word-order rule: verb-second (V2) in main clauses.

In a Swedish main clause, the finite verb normally comes in the second position.

Basic order:

• Jag skurar golvet
  subject + verb + object

But if you move another element to the front, the verb still stays second:

• Sedan skurar jag golvet
  time word + verb + subject + object

So after sedan comes skurar, and then jag.

That is why:

• och sedan skurar jag golvet is correct

not:

• och sedan jag skurar golvet

The latter would sound like the beginning of a subordinate clause, not a normal main clause.

No. Och means and, but it does not cancel the normal main-clause word order.

The second part is still a main clause:

• sedan skurar jag golvet

So even after och, Swedish still follows the V2 rule:

• och sedan skurar jag golvet

You can think of it as:

1. Jag fyller hinken i badrummet
2. Sedan skurar jag golvet

joined together by och.

Yes. Both are common.

• sedan = more neutral / slightly more formal
• sen = common in everyday speech and informal writing

So both of these work:

• ... och sedan skurar jag golvet
• ... och sen skurar jag golvet

Both mean and then I scrub the floor.

Skura is more specific than English clean.

It means something like:

• scrub
• scour
• clean by scrubbing

So:

• skura golvet = scrub the floor

If you just wanted to say clean the floor, Swedish might use a different verb depending on the method, such as:

• städa = clean/tidy up in general
• torka golvet = wipe the floor
• moppa golvet = mop the floor
• skura golvet = scrub the floor

So skura suggests a stronger, more physical cleaning action.

Because each main clause normally needs its own subject in Swedish.

So:

• Jag fyller hinken i badrummet, och sedan skurar jag golvet.

has two main clauses:

1. Jag fyller hinken i badrummet
2. sedan skurar jag golvet

In Swedish, you usually keep the subject in the second clause too. Leaving out jag here would sound incomplete or unnatural.

Not always. In modern Swedish, a comma before och is often optional, especially in a short sentence like this.

So both of these may be seen:

• Jag fyller hinken i badrummet, och sedan skurar jag golvet.
• Jag fyller hinken i badrummet och sedan skurar jag golvet.

The comma can help readability, especially when the sentence has two clear parts, but it is not strictly required in many everyday contexts.

It could be either, depending on context.

Swedish present tense can be used for:

• a habitual action: I fill the bucket in the bathroom, and then I scrub the floor
• an action happening now: I’m filling the bucket in the bathroom, and then I’m scrubbing the floor
• a step-by-step description: like giving instructions or narrating what someone does

So the form fyller / skurar does not by itself force only one interpretation. Context decides.