Jag har tid hos tandläkaren den elfte juni, men min syster går dit först i augusti.

In Swedish, ha tid hos någon is a very common way to say to have an appointment with someone.

• jag har tid = literally I have time, but in this kind of context it means I have an appointment
• hos tandläkaren = with the dentist / at the dentist’s

So Jag har tid hos tandläkaren is an idiomatic Swedish expression for having a scheduled visit.

You may also hear:

• Jag har en tid hos tandläkaren
  This is also correct and may sound a bit more explicit, as if you are stressing that you have a specific appointment booked.

Hos is used when you are at someone’s place, with a professional, or in someone’s care.

So:

• hos tandläkaren = at the dentist’s / with the dentist
• hos läkaren = at the doctor’s
• hos frisören = at the hairdresser’s

If you said till tandläkaren, that would focus more on movement to the dentist, not the appointment itself.

Compare:

• Jag ska till tandläkaren. = I’m going to the dentist.
• Jag har tid hos tandläkaren. = I have an appointment with the dentist.

Swedish makes compound nouns very freely, much more than English does.

• tand = tooth
• läkare = doctor
• tandläkare = dentist

Then tandläkaren is the definite form:

• en tandläkare = a dentist
• tandläkaren = the dentist

This is very normal in Swedish. English often writes these as separate words, but Swedish usually joins them into one word.

The ending -en marks the definite form, so:

• tandläkare = dentist
• tandläkaren = the dentist

After hos, Swedish often uses the definite form for professions when you mean the person in their professional role:

• hos läkaren = at the doctor’s
• hos tandläkaren = at the dentist’s
• hos frisören = at the hairdresser’s

Even though English often says at the dentist, Swedish grammar is doing its own thing here: the definite form is the normal choice.

Swedish dates often use den + ordinal number + month.

• den elfte juni = the eleventh of June / June 11th

Here:

• den = date marker, roughly like the
• elfte = eleventh
• juni = June

A few useful examples:

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

In writing, Swedish often uses numerals:

• 11 juni

But when speaking, den elfte juni is very natural.

Swedish uses i with months, seasons, and many longer time periods.

So:

• i augusti = in August
• i juni = in June
• i sommar = this summer / in the summer
• i vinter = in the winter / this winter

This is just the normal preposition Swedish uses here. English speakers often want to map prepositions directly, but it is better to learn them as fixed patterns.

Here först does not really mean first in the simple counting sense. In this sentence, it means something more like:

• not until
• only
• as late as

So min syster går dit först i augusti means that her sister’s visit happens only in August, later than the speaker’s appointment in June.

This is a very common use of först in Swedish.

Compare:

• Jag kommer först på fredag. = I won’t come until Friday.
• Hon vaknade först klockan tio. = She didn’t wake up until ten.

So in this sentence, först emphasizes the later timing.

Literally, går dit means goes there, and går can often translate as goes in a general sense, not strictly walks.

In everyday Swedish, gå is often used where English would just say go, especially when the exact form of transport is not important.

• går dit = goes there
• dit = there / to there, referring back to the dentist

If you wanted to stress travel by vehicle, Swedish might use åker dit instead. But går dit is perfectly natural when the important thing is simply that she is going there.

Dit means there in the sense of to that place. It points back to a place already mentioned or understood from context.

In this sentence, dit refers to hos tandläkaren — in other words, to the dentist.

A useful distinction:

• där = there (location, being there)
• dit = there / to there (movement toward there)

Compare:

• Hon är där. = She is there.
• Hon går dit. = She goes there.

In Swedish, possessives like min, din, hans, hennes, and vår usually replace the article.

So:

• min syster = my sister
• min bok = my book
• hennes bil = her car

You do not add en or den in front in normal usage.

So min syster is exactly what you would expect in Swedish.

No—after men, Swedish keeps normal main-clause word order.

So:

• Jag har tid hos tandläkaren den elfte juni
• men min syster går dit först i augusti

Both parts are main clauses. In Swedish main clauses, the verb comes early in the sentence, following the usual V2 pattern.

Here that gives you:

• min syster går dit först i augusti
• subject: min syster
• verb: går

Because men is a coordinating conjunction, it does not trigger subordinate-clause word order.

Compare with a subordinate clause:

• ... eftersom min syster går dit först i augusti
  Here the structure is different because eftersom introduces a subordinate clause.

No. In standard Swedish, month names are not capitalized unless they begin a sentence.

So:

• juni
• augusti
• december

This is different from English, where months are always capitalized.

So the sentence is correctly written as:

• den elfte juni
• i augusti