De har inte ens skickat beviset.

A word-by-word breakdown is:

• De = they
• har = have
• inte = not
• ens = even
• skickat = sent
• beviset = the proof / the evidence

So the sentence structure is basically:

• De → subject
• har skickat → verb phrase (have sent)
• inte ens → not even
• beviset → object

Natural English: They haven’t even sent the proof.

Because har skickat is the present perfect, like English have sent.

• De skickade beviset = They sent the proof
• De har skickat beviset = They have sent the proof

In your sentence, the speaker is focusing on the fact that up to now, this still hasn’t happened:

• De har inte ens skickat beviset = They haven’t even sent the proof

So this is not just about a finished past event. It points to a situation that is still relevant now.

Skickat is the supine form of the verb skicka.

In Swedish, after har in the present perfect, you use the supine, not the infinitive and not the ordinary past tense.

For skicka:

• infinitive: skicka = to send
• present: skickar = send / sends
• past: skickade = sent
• supine: skickat = used after har
• past participle: skickad/skickat/skickade = sent as an adjective

So in De har skickat, skickat is the correct form because it follows har.

This is normal Swedish word order in a main clause with an auxiliary verb.

The basic pattern is:

subject + auxiliary + inte + main verb

So:

• De = subject
• har = auxiliary
• inte = negation
• skickat = main verb

Then ens is added after inte to make inte ens = not even.

That gives:

De har inte ens skickat beviset.

Compare:

• De har skickat beviset. = They have sent the proof.
• De har inte skickat beviset. = They have not sent the proof.
• De har inte ens skickat beviset. = They have not even sent the proof.

In this sentence, ens works together with inte.

• inte ens = not even

This is a very common fixed combination in Swedish.

Examples:

• Jag såg honom inte ens. = I didn’t even see him.
• Hon ringde inte ens. = She didn’t even call.

Used by itself, ens often appears in negative or question-like contexts, not usually as a simple positive even.

So for English not even, Swedish normally uses inte ens.

Not normally. The natural expression is inte ens, not ens inte.

So the standard form is:

• De har inte ens skickat beviset.

If you switch them, it sounds wrong or at least very unnatural in ordinary Swedish.

For a learner, it is best to treat inte ens as a unit meaning not even.

Beviset is the definite form of bevis.

• ett bevis = a proof / a piece of evidence
• beviset = the proof / the evidence

In Swedish, definiteness is often shown by adding an ending to the noun:

• en bok → boken
• ett hus → huset
• ett bevis → beviset

You use det beviset only when you specifically mean that proof or when you have extra description and double definiteness is needed in certain structures.

So here, plain beviset simply means the proof.

It can mean several related things depending on context:

• proof
• evidence
• sometimes certificate or documentary proof

So beviset could be:

• the proof
• the evidence
• the document proving it

The exact English word depends on the situation. If the meaning has already been given to the learner, that probably tells you which sense is intended here.

Skicka is a general verb meaning to send.

It can be used for:

• email
• text messages
• files
• letters
• documents
• physical objects

So skickat beviset just means sent the proof/evidence, without specifying how.

If Swedish wants to be more specific, it can add more information, for example:

• skickat mejlet = sent the email
• skickat brevet = sent the letter
• skickat in beviset = submitted the proof/evidence

Here it is de because it is the subject of the sentence.

• De har inte ens skickat beviset. = They haven’t even sent the proof.
• Jag såg dem. = I saw them.

So:

• de = they
• dem = them

In spoken Swedish, many speakers pronounce both like dom, but in standard writing the distinction is usually:

• subject → de
• object → dem

Since they are doing the action in this sentence, de is correct.

Swedish makes yes/no questions by putting the verb before the subject.

Statement:

• De har inte ens skickat beviset.

Question:

• Har de inte ens skickat beviset? = Haven’t they even sent the proof?

Notice that har moves to the front, but inte ens stays together.

Not exactly. In this sentence, yes:

• inte ens = not even

But English even is broader than Swedish ens.

For example, English can say:

• Even John understood it.

In Swedish, that would more naturally be:

• Till och med Johan förstod det.

So a useful rule is:

• not even → often inte ens
• even in positive statements → often till och med

That is why ens is right here, but it is not the universal translation of English even.

A very useful pattern is:

subject + har + inte ens + supine + object

For example:

• Jag har inte ens börjat. = I haven’t even started.
• Hon har inte ens sett filmen. = She hasn’t even seen the movie.
• De har inte ens skickat beviset. = They haven’t even sent the proof.

If you remember inte ens = not even and har + supine = have + past participle, this sentence becomes much easier to understand and build yourself.