Jag går hem kvart i sex.

Går is the present tense of gå. On its own, gå often means walk, but in the expression gå hem, it very often just means go home or leave for home.

So this sentence does not have to strongly emphasize that the person is walking. If you want to make walking extra clear, Swedish can also use promenerar hem.

Compare:

• Jag går hem. = I’m going home.
• Jag promenerar hem. = I’m walking home.
• Jag åker hem. = I’m going home by vehicle / traveling home.

Because hem already works by itself in Swedish when it means movement toward home.

Just like English says go home, not go to home, Swedish says:

• gå hem = go home
• komma hem = come home
• åka hem = go home / travel home

So till hem is not used here.

This is a very common question.

• hem = homeward, to home idea; it shows movement
• hemma = at home; it shows location

So:

• Jag går hem. = I’m going home.
• Jag är hemma. = I’m at home.

A good shortcut is:

• hem → movement
• hemma → position

It means quarter to six, so 5:45.

In Swedish time expressions:

• kvart över sex = quarter past six = 6:15
• halv sex = 5:30
• kvart i sex = quarter to six = 5:45

A very important thing for English speakers: halv sex is not 6:30. It is halfway to six, so 5:30.

Swedish often describes time by pointing toward the upcoming hour.

So kvart i sex literally looks a bit like quarter in/to six, meaning a quarter before six.

You do not need to translate it word for word. It is just the normal Swedish pattern for saying 5:45.

The main patterns to remember are:

• fem över sex = five past six
• tio i sex = ten to six
• kvart över sex = quarter past six
• kvart i sex = quarter to six

In ordinary Swedish, en kvart means a quarter or fifteen minutes.

But in clock-time expressions, Swedish normally drops the article and just says:

• kvart över sex
• kvart i sex

So in telling the time, kvart behaves like a fixed time word rather than a full noun phrase.

Swedish usually does not need a preposition like at before clock times.

So Swedish commonly says:

• Jag går hem kvart i sex.
• Vi ses sex.
• Hon kommer halv åtta.

English needs at in many of these cases, but Swedish often just uses the time expression directly.

You can sometimes add klockan for clarity:

• Jag går hem klockan kvart i sex.

But in everyday speech, leaving it out is very common.

Grammatically, it is present tense: går = go / am going.

But in Swedish, present tense is often used for:

• habits
• schedules
• near-future plans

So depending on context, this sentence can mean things like:

• I go home at 5:45.
• I’m going home at 5:45.

Swedish often relies on context instead of using a special future form.

Yes. The given sentence has a very natural everyday order:

• Jag går hem kvart i sex.

But you can move the time expression to the front for emphasis:

• Kvart i sex går jag hem.

When you do that, Swedish follows the verb-second rule, so the verb must still come in second position:

• Kvart i sex går jag hem. ✅
• Kvart i sex jag går hem. ❌

So the word order can change, but the verb placement matters.

Yes. That would also be a normal sentence, but it gives a slightly different idea.

• Jag går hem = I go home / leave for home; sometimes it can suggest going on foot, but not always strongly
• Jag åker hem = I go/travel home, often by car, bus, train, bike, etc.
• Jag promenerar hem = I walk home

So if transport matters, åker hem may be better. If you just mean I go home, går hem is completely natural.

A simple rough guide for an English speaker is:

yah gor hem kvart ee seks

A few helpful notes:

• Jag is often pronounced more like yah in everyday speech.
• går has a long vowel, roughly like gor.
• hem is short and clear.
• i sounds like ee.
• sex sounds like seks.

A more careful pronunciation can vary by region, but that rough version will help you recognize it in speech.