Word
Arbetsbelastningen verkar realistisk.
Meaning
The workload seems realistic.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Arbetsbelastningen verkar realistisk.
verka
to seem
arbetsbelastningen
the workload
realistisk
realistic
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Questions & Answers about Arbetsbelastningen verkar realistisk.
What does arbetsbelastningen mean, and how is that long word built?
Arbetsbelastningen means the workload.
It is a compound noun:
- arbete = work
- belastning = load, burden, strain
- arbets- = a compound form meaning work-
- -en = the definite ending, meaning the
So:
- arbetsbelastning = workload
- arbetsbelastningen = the workload
A very common feature of Swedish is that long nouns are built by joining smaller words together.
Why is there no separate word for the?
In Swedish, the is usually added to the end of the noun as a suffix.
So instead of saying something like the workload, Swedish says:
- arbetsbelastning = workload
- arbetsbelastningen = the workload
That final -en is doing the job of English the.
Why does the word have an -s- in the middle: arbetsbelastning?