A natural breakdown is:
So the structure is:
the requirement is greater than the deduction
It is a very normal Swedish comparison sentence: [noun] + är + [comparative adjective] + än + [noun]
The ending -et is the definite singular ending for many neuter nouns in Swedish.
So:
and
In Swedish, the definite article is usually attached to the end of the noun rather than written as a separate word like English the.
Compare:
Here, both nouns are neuter, so the definite form ends in -et.
You mainly have to learn the gender of each noun as part of the vocabulary:
Swedish nouns are divided into two genders in modern standard Swedish:
Because these are ett nouns, their definite singular forms are:
Unfortunately, there is not always a perfect rule that lets you guess the gender. The safest habit is to memorize new nouns together with their article:
Because the sentence is making a comparison: greater than something.
The adjective stor means big / large.
Its comparative form is större, meaning bigger / greater / larger.
The forms are:
So:
This is like English big → bigger, except Swedish uses the irregular comparative större.
Because stor is irregular in the comparative.
Many Swedish adjectives do form the comparative with -are, for example:
But stor does not follow that regular pattern. Instead:
So större is simply the correct comparative form that must be learned.
Än means than in comparisons.
So:
Examples:
In your sentence, än connects the two things being compared:
Because the sentence is talking about specific things: the requirement and the deduction, not just any requirement or any deduction.
Swedish often uses the definite form in the same situations where English uses the:
If you wanted an indefinite meaning, you would normally use the indefinite forms:
But that sounds more general and less natural in many contexts unless you are making a very abstract statement.
So the definite forms suggest that both items are known from the context.
No, the comparative form större does not change for gender or number in this kind of use.
Compare:
In all of these, större stays the same.
This is useful for learners, because once you know the comparative form, you can usually use it without worrying about agreement.
Yes. This is very standard Swedish sentence order:
Subject + verb + complement
So:
This is one of the most basic and common Swedish patterns.
Swedish is a V2 language, which means the finite verb is usually in the second position in main clauses. In this sentence, the subject comes first, so the verb naturally comes second:
That is exactly what you would expect.
Yes. That would mean:
The deduction is smaller than the requirement.
It expresses the same basic comparison from the opposite point of view.
Compare:
Both are grammatically correct. The choice depends on which thing you want to focus on first.
Yes. Krav often means requirement, demand, or sometimes claim, depending on the context.
For example:
So Kravet är större än avdraget could sound slightly different depending on the wider context. Grammatically, though, the sentence works the same way.
A rough pronunciation guide is:
KRAH-vet air STUR-reh en AHV-drah-get
A few useful points:
If you are learning pronunciation, it helps to listen carefully to native audio, because Swedish vowel quality is very important.
Usually, Swedish expresses the by attaching the definite ending to the noun, as in:
But when there is an adjective before the noun, Swedish normally uses double definiteness:
Here you get both:
So in your sentence, there is no adjective directly before kravet or avdraget, so the simple forms kravet and avdraget are enough.