Vi ska gå på konsert den sjunde april.

Ska is used here to talk about a future plan: vi ska gå = we are going to go / we will go.

• Vi går på konsert would usually sound more like we go to concerts or we’re going to a concert depending on context, but it is less clearly marked as a plan.
• Vi ska gå på konsert clearly tells you this is something planned for the future.

So ska often works a lot like going to or will in English.

In this sentence, gå på konsert means go to a concert / attend a concert.

The verb gå normally means go or walk, but together with på it often has a broader meaning depending on the context.

Here:

• gå på konsert = go to a concert
• gå på bio = go to the cinema
• gå på fest = go to a party

So you should learn gå på as a common expression for attending events.

Swedish often uses på with events and activities where English uses to.

Compare:

• gå på konsert = go to a concert
• gå på bio = go to the cinema
• gå på möte = go to a meeting

So even though English says to, Swedish frequently says på in this kind of expression. It is just the normal preposition here.

In Swedish, after expressions like gå på, the noun often appears without an article when you mean the activity in a general way.

So:

• gå på konsert = go to a concert
• gå på bio = go to the cinema
• gå i skolan = go to school

If you wanted to emphasize a specific concert, you could say:

• gå på en konsert = go to a concert

But in many everyday cases, Swedish naturally leaves the article out after this kind of expression.

This is a very common thing that feels strange to English speakers. Swedish sometimes uses a bare noun where English would use a or the.

After some verbs and fixed expressions, the noun can appear without an article:

• gå på konsert
• spela gitarr
• köra bil

Even though English needs an article, Swedish does not always use one. So konsert here does not sound incomplete to a Swedish speaker.

It literally means the seventh April, but in natural English we say the seventh of April or just April seventh.

Breakdown:

• den = the
• sjunde = seventh
• april = April

This is a standard Swedish way of saying dates.

In Swedish, dates are often said with den + ordinal number:

• den första maj = the first of May
• den tjugofjärde december = the twenty-fourth of December
• den sjunde april = the seventh of April

So den is a normal part of how dates are formed.

In some contexts, especially in notes, headlines, or very casual style, you may also see the date written without den, but den sjunde april is the standard full form in speech and normal writing.

Sju means seven, while sjunde means seventh.

Dates in Swedish use ordinal numbers, not cardinal numbers.

Compare:

• sju = seven
• sjunde = seventh

So for dates:

• den sjunde april = the seventh of April

This is similar to English, where we say the seventh of April, not the seven of April.

Putting the time expression at the end is very natural in Swedish:

• Vi ska gå på konsert den sjunde april.

But Swedish is flexible, and you can also move the date to the front:

• Den sjunde april ska vi gå på konsert.

That version puts more focus on the date. Both are correct. The original sentence just has a neutral, natural word order.

This is because Swedish has V2 word order, which means the finite verb usually comes in the second position in a main clause.

Compare:

• Vi ska gå på konsert den sjunde april.
• Den sjunde april ska vi gå på konsert.

In the second sentence, Den sjunde april takes the first position, so the verb ska must come second, and vi moves after it.

This is one of the most important word-order rules in Swedish.

No. Ska can mean different things depending on context:

• future plan: Vi ska gå på konsert = We’re going to go to a concert
• intention: Jag ska läsa = I’m going to read
• obligation in some contexts: Du ska göra det = You must / you should do it

So ska is not always exactly the same as will. In this sentence, it most naturally expresses a future plan.

The written sentence is already completely natural. In speech, though, people may pronounce parts of it more casually.

For example:

• ska may sound a bit shortened in fast speech
• sjunde may be pronounced a little more smoothly depending on dialect

But the sentence itself:

• Vi ska gå på konsert den sjunde april.

is perfectly normal everyday Swedish. A speaker would not usually need to change the wording.