Hon dribblade länge med bollen.

Hon means she. It is the third-person singular subject pronoun.

In this sentence, Hon is the subject: the person doing the action.

Dribblade is the past tense of dribbla.

A useful mini-pattern is:

• att dribbla = to dribble
• dribblar = dribbles / is dribbling
• dribblade = dribbled
• dribblat = dribbled (supine, used with har)

So Hon dribblade ... means that the action happened in the past.

Yes. Dribbla is basically the Swedish version of the English sports verb dribble.

Swedish often takes loanwords and gives them Swedish verb endings. Here, the infinitive ends in -a, which is very common for Swedish verbs:

• dribble → dribbla

So it feels familiar to an English speaker, but it behaves like a normal Swedish verb.

Because länge is the word Swedish usually uses for for a long time or a long time when talking about duration.

Compare:

• en lång match = a long match
• Hon väntade länge = She waited a long time
• Hon dribblade länge = She dribbled for a long time

So:

• lång is usually an adjective: long
• länge is the usual adverb for duration: for a long time

Because Swedish often expresses duration more directly than English.

In English, you often say:

• for a long time

In Swedish, you can often just say:

• länge

So:

• Hon dribblade länge
  literally looks like She dribbled long,
  but naturally means She dribbled for a long time.

This is very common in Swedish.

Med bollen means with the ball.

In Swedish, dribbla med bollen is a very natural way to describe the action of dribbling while controlling the ball. English often prefers dribble the ball, but Swedish commonly uses med in this kind of expression.

So even if it looks slightly different from the most natural English phrasing, it is normal Swedish.

Because bollen is the definite form of boll:

• en boll = a ball
• bollen = the ball

In a sports context, the ball is usually already understood as a specific ball, so Swedish naturally uses the definite form.

Also, boll is an en-word, so the singular definite ending is -en:

• boll → bollen

The sentence has a very normal Swedish main-clause order:

• Hon = subject
• dribblade = finite verb
• länge = adverbial of duration
• med bollen = prepositional phrase

So the pattern is basically:

subject + verb + other information

This is a standard, neutral way to build a Swedish sentence.

Yes, to some extent. Swedish word order is somewhat flexible, especially with adverbials and prepositional phrases.

For example, you may also hear:

• Hon dribblade med bollen länge.

That is also understandable and natural.

But in a main clause, Swedish normally keeps the finite verb in second position if something else is placed first. For example:

• Länge dribblade hon med bollen.

That is possible, but more marked or stylistically special than the original sentence.

So Hon dribblade länge med bollen is a very safe, neutral version.

It can match either, depending on context.

Swedish does not have a separate everyday tense that works exactly like the English progressive was dribbling. The simple past dribblade can cover both ideas:

• She dribbled for a long time
• She was dribbling for a long time

The word länge already suggests duration, so in English a progressive translation may sometimes sound natural, even though Swedish just uses the simple past.

Yes, but it means something a little different.

• Hon dribblade länge med bollen = simple past, a finished past event
• Hon har dribblat länge med bollen = present perfect, with a link to the present situation

So the original sentence sounds like part of a past narrative, while har dribblat would suggest something more connected to now or to a present result.