Vi hejar allihop på laget.

Heja på means to cheer for, to support, or to root for someone or something.

In this sentence, Vi hejar allihop på laget, it means that we are all cheering for the team.

A useful thing to notice is that heja på works as a unit:

• heja på laget = cheer for the team
• heja på Sverige = cheer for Sweden

So even though på by itself often means on, here it is part of the expression.

Because the Swedish expression is heja på någon/något.

English says:

• cheer for the team

Swedish says:

• heja på laget

So the preposition is just different from English. You cannot usually drop på here if you mean support/root for.

Compare:

• Jag hejar på dig. = I’m rooting for you.
• Vi hejar på vårt lag. = We’re cheering for our team.

Allihop means all of us, all together, or simply everyone depending on context.

In this sentence, Vi hejar allihop på laget, it emphasizes that we all are cheering for the team.

It is a common spoken and informal-feeling word. Very natural in everyday Swedish.

You can think of it as adding emphasis:

• Vi hejar på laget. = We cheer for the team.
• Vi hejar allihop på laget. = We all cheer for the team.

Both can work, but they are used a little differently.

• Vi hejar alla på laget.
• Vi hejar allihop på laget.

Both mean roughly We all cheer for the team.

However:

• alla is the more basic word for all
• allihop often sounds a bit more conversational and emphatic, like every single one of us

So allihop adds a friendly, natural spoken tone.

In Swedish main clauses, the finite verb usually comes in the second position. This is the famous V2 word order rule.

Here:

• Vi = subject
• hejar = finite verb

After that, you can add things like allihop and then the rest:

• Vi hejar allihop på laget.

This word order is very natural.

You may also see:

• Vi allihop hejar på laget.

That is also possible, but Vi hejar allihop på laget is a very common pattern.

Yes. The infinitive is heja, and hejar is the present tense.

Examples:

• att heja = to cheer
• jag hejar = I cheer / I am cheering
• vi hejar = we cheer / we are cheering

Like many Swedish verbs, the same present form is used for all persons:

• jag hejar
• du hejar
• han/hon hejar
• vi hejar
• ni hejar
• de hejar

Laget is the definite form, meaning the team.

Swedish often adds the definite article as an ending:

• ett lag = a team
• laget = the team

So:

• på laget = for the team

This is different from English, where the is a separate word.

Yes. In actual sentences, other words can come between the verb and på.

That is exactly what happens here:

• Vi hejar allihop på laget.

The core expression is still heja på.

You can also say:

• Vi hejar verkligen på laget. = We really cheer for the team.
• Hon hejar alltid på dem. = She always roots for them.

So you should learn heja på as a phrase, even though the two parts are not always next to each other.

It can mean either one, depending on context.

Swedish present tense often covers both:

• a general habit
• something happening now

So Vi hejar allihop på laget could mean:

• We all support the team
• We’re all cheering for the team

The situation around the sentence tells you which meaning is intended.

Allihop is pronounced roughly like AH-lee-hop.

It is historically made up of parts related to all and together/every one of them, but as a learner, it is best to treat allihop as a fixed everyday word meaning all of us / everyone / all of them, depending on context.

Examples:

• Kom allihop! = Come on, everyone!
• Vi var där allihop. = We were all there.

Yes, possibly, but laget is usually the more natural Swedish word for team in many sports contexts.

• lag = team
• team also exists in Swedish, but it is used in somewhat different contexts too, such as work teams, specialist teams, or sometimes sports depending on style

So in a sentence about cheering in sports, på laget sounds very natural.

Not in this sentence.

Because the verb phrase is heja på, the meaning is cheer for/support.

So:

• Vi hejar ... på laget = We cheer for the team

If you wanted to say on the team, that would depend on a different structure, for example:

• Han spelar i laget. = He plays on the team.

So here, på laget should not be understood literally as on the team.