Mötet är den fjärde november.

Because mötet is the definite form of möte.

• ett möte = a meeting
• mötet = the meeting

Swedish often adds the definite ending directly to the noun instead of using a separate word like the.

So:

• Möte = meeting
• Mötet = the meeting

Är is the present tense of vara = to be.

In this sentence, Swedish uses är to give the date of a scheduled event:

• Mötet är den fjärde november. = The meeting is on the fourth of November.

This is a normal way to say when something takes place. English often uses is on, but Swedish usually just uses är here.

Den is commonly used before a date written as an ordinal.

So:

• den fjärde november = the fourth of November

In Swedish dates, den + ordinal number is very common:

• den första maj = the first of May
• den tjugofemte december = the twenty-fifth of December

It does not work exactly like English the, but in dates it often translates that way.

Because fjärde is an ordinal number, while fyra is a cardinal number.

• fyra = four
• fjärde = fourth

Dates in Swedish normally use ordinals:

• den fjärde november = the fourth of November
• den tionde april = the tenth of April

So fyra november would not be the normal standard way to say this date in a full sentence like this.

In dates, the usual form is the ordinal in the common-gender form used after den:

• den första
• den andra
• den tredje
• den fjärde

So den fjärde november is the expected standard form.

You do not say:

• den fjärdt november
• den fjärden november

Those are not correct here.

Because Swedish often does not use a preposition in this kind of date expression.

English says:

• The meeting is on the fourth of November.

Swedish simply says:

• Mötet är den fjärde november.

So the idea of on is understood without needing a separate word.

In Swedish, months are not normally capitalized unless they begin a sentence.

So Swedish writes:

• november
• december
• april

This is different from English, where month names are capitalized.

Yes. Very often, Swedish writes dates with a numeral:

• Mötet är den 4 november.

That means the same thing as:

• Mötet är den fjärde november.

Both are correct. The numeral version is very common in everyday writing.

No. This is very standard Swedish word order:

• Mötet = subject
• är = verb
• den fjärde november = date expression

So the sentence structure is straightforward:

subject + verb + date

A rough guide for an English speaker is:

MÖ-tet air den FYAIR-de no-VEM-ber

A few helpful notes:

• ö is not an English sound; it is somewhat like the vowel in French deux or German schön
• tj / kj / fj-type sounds in Swedish can be tricky; in fjärde, the beginning is softer than a normal English f
• Stress usually falls like this:
  • MÖtet
  • FJÄRde
  • noVEMber

If you want to sound more natural, it is especially useful to practice mötet and fjärde separately first.