Typen är absolut rätt.

Typen is the definite singular form of typ.

Depending on context, typ can mean:

• type / kind
• guy / dude in informal speech
• sometimes typeface or similar technical meanings

So typen can mean the type, the kind, or informally the guy.

In this sentence, the most natural reading is often the type/kind is absolutely right or the type is exactly right. If you mean the guy is absolutely right, Swedish more often says typen har absolut rätt.

Because Swedish usually adds the definite article to the end of the noun.

• en typ = a type / a guy
• typen = the type / the guy

This is very common with en-words:

• en bil → bilen
• en bok → boken
• en typ → typen

So the -en ending here means the.

Är is the present tense of vara, which means to be.

So:

• är = is / are

In this sentence:

• Typen är ... = The type is ...

It is just the normal present-tense linking verb connecting the subject typen with the description absolut rätt.

In Swedish, many adverbs have the same form as the neuter adjective form. So absolut can mean:

• absolute
• absolutely

Here it functions like an adverb and strengthens rätt:

• absolut rätt = absolutely right
• also in some contexts exactly right or completely correct

This is normal Swedish usage.

Because rätt is being used after är, in a predicative position.

Compare:

• den rätta typen = the right type
  Here the adjective comes before the noun, so it takes the definite form rätta.

• typen är rätt = the type is right / correct
  Here the adjective comes after är, so it stays rätt.

So this is a useful contrast:

• den rätta typen
• typen är rätt

The first is attributive, the second is predicative.

No. Here rätt means right in the sense of:

• correct
• appropriate
• the right one
• exactly suitable

It does not mean the direction opposite left in this sentence.

So absolut rätt means something like:

• absolutely right
• completely correct
• exactly right

It is possible, but it is not the most idiomatic way to say that about a person.

If you mean someone is correct in an argument or discussion, Swedish usually says:

• Han har rätt = He is right
• Typen har absolut rätt = The guy is absolutely right

Using är rätt with a person more easily sounds like:

• is the right one
• is appropriate
• is correct for the situation

So if typen means the guy, many native speakers would prefer har rätt rather than är rätt.

Because Swedish main clauses normally follow the verb-second rule.

That means the finite verb comes in the second position:

• Typen = first element
• är = second element

Then the adverb and complement come after that:

• Typen är absolut rätt

A learner may want to put the adverb before the verb, but that is not the normal pattern here.

Natural order:

• Typen är absolut rätt

Not normal here:

• Typen absolut är rätt

Yes.

• Typen är rätt = The type is right / correct
• Typen är absolut rätt = The type is absolutely right

So absolut just adds emphasis. It makes the statement stronger.

A simple approximate pronunciation is:

TY-pehn air ab-so-LOOT rett

A few notes:

• y in typen is not like English y. It is a front rounded vowel that English does not really have.
• är has a vowel somewhat like air in many English accents, though not exactly the same.
• rätt has a short vowel and a strong tt sound.

If you want a more Swedish-like rhythm, the main stress is usually on:

• TY- in typen
• -lut in absolut
• rätt is also clearly stressed at the end