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### Reporting Commands and Requests

When you want to report what someone told or asked another person to do, you use an indirect command. This is very common in environments like physical therapy or personal training, where professionals give instructions.

The structure for an indirect command in Swedish is straightforward:
**Reporting Verb** + **Object** + **att** + **Infinitive**

The object is the person receiving the instruction. A common reporting verb is **säga åt** (to tell someone to do something).

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### Stronger and Softer Requests

Depending on the context, you might need to urge, advise, or simply ask a client to perform a movement. The grammar structure remains exactly the same, but you will use different reporting verbs:

- **uppmana**: to urge
- **råda**: to advise
- **be**: to ask (for a favor or action)

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### Questions and Different Tenses

This structure stays consistent even when you ask a question or change the tense of the reporting verb. The action being requested always remains in the **att** + infinitive form.

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### Negative Indirect Commands

If you need to instruct someone *not* to do something, you will use the negation word **inte**. In an infinitive phrase, **inte** goes immediately after **att** and before the infinitive verb.

**Structure:**
Reporting Verb + Object + **att** + **inte** + **Infinitive**

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Indirect commands and requests (att)

adjective

adverb

conjunction

determiner

interjection

noun

numeral

particle

preposition

pronoun

sentence

verb

The definite ending (barnet, hunden)

Indefinite articles and -ar verbs (en, ett)

Basic word order

Singular adjectives (stor, stort)

Plural adjectives (-a)

Sentence negation (inte)

Yes/No questions

Basic question words (vad, vem, var)

Regular Group 2 verbs (-er)

Short verbs and irregulars (har, gör)

The infinitive marker (att)

Modal verbs (kan, vill, måste, får)

Future intention (ska)

Time adverbs (imorgon, igår)

Word order inversion

Adverbs of frequency (ibland, aldrig)

Everyday things (dörren, stolen, tåget)

Definite suffix spelling changes

Plural nouns Group 1 and 2 (-or, -ar)

Plural nouns Group 3 (-er, -r)

Neuter indefinite plurals

Definite plural suffixes (-na, -a, -en)

Object pronouns (mig, dig, oss)

Reflexive pronouns (sig)

Expanded question words (när, varför)

Which and what (vilken, vilket, vilka)

Coordinating conjunctions (men, eller, för)

Prepositions of place (i, på, till, från)

Quantifiers (mycket, många)

Indefinite pronouns (någon, något, några)

First and second person possessives (min, din, vår, er)

Third person possessives (hans, hennes, dess, deras)

Reflexive possessives (sin, sitt, sina)

The genitive (-s)

Adjectives before singular nouns

Adjectives before plural nouns (-a)

Double definiteness (den, det, de)

Demonstratives (den här, det här, de här)

The imperative mood

Past tense of vara and ha (var, hade)

Possessives for names (-s)

Definite plural adjectives (de ... -a)

Genitive case for names (-s)

Numbers 1 to 10 (en, två, tre...)

Numbers 11 to 20 (elva till tjugo)

Counting by tens to 100 (trettio, fyrtio...)

Days of the week (måndag, tisdag...)

Months of the year (januari, februari...)

Ordinal numbers 1st to 10th (första, andra...)

Greetings and politeness (hej, tack, förlåt)

Particle verbs of direction (gå ut, komma in)

Simple past: Group 1 (-ade)

Simple past: Group 2a (-de)

Simple past: Group 2b (-te)

Simple past: Group 3 (-dde)

Simple past: Group 4

Present perfect: Groups 1 and 2 (har)

Present perfect: Groups 3 and 4

Past perfect (hade)

Future predictions (kommer att)

Future with present tense

The adjective small (liten, litet, små)

Demonstratives of distance (den där, det där, de där)

Negative pronouns (ingen, inget, inga)

Universal pronouns (all, allt, alla)

The generic pronoun (man, en)

Possessive generic pronoun (ens)

Reciprocal pronoun (varandra)

Qualitative pronouns (sådan, sådant, sådana)

Habitual time expressions (på)

Specific past time expressions (i)

Past time expressions (för ... sedan)

Future time expressions (om)

Location and motion adverbs (här/hit, där/dit)

Consequences (så)

Correlative conjunctions (både ... och)

Either and neither (antingen ... eller, varken ... eller)

Verbs of opinion and belief (tycker, tror, tänker)

Subordinate clauses (att, om)

Time clauses (när, innan, medan)

Clauses of cause (eftersom, därför att)

Negation in subordinate clauses (inte)

V2 word order inversion

Relative clauses as subjects (som)

Relative clauses as objects (som)

Relative clauses for places (där)

Adverbs from adjectives (-t)

Adjective comparative and superlative (-are, -ast)

Question	Answer
the trainer	tränaren
to tell (to do)	säga åt
The trainer told me to rest.	Tränaren sa åt mig att vila.
to urge	uppmana
the client	klienten
to stretch	sträcka
I urge the client to stretch the arms.	Jag uppmanar klienten att sträcka armarna.
to advise	råda
to bend	böja
the joint	leden
The doctor advised him to bend the joint without rushing.	Läkaren rådde honom att böja leden utan att stressa.
to repeat	repetera
The trainer asks you to repeat the movement.	Tränaren ber dig att repetera rörelsen.
Has the trainer told you to relax?	Har tränaren sagt åt dig att slappna av?
the muscle	muskeln
She urged the client to see the muscle work in the mirror.	Hon uppmanade klienten att se muskeln arbeta i spegeln.
I was just going to advise him to repeat the exercise.	Jag skulle just råda honom att repetera övningen.
They asked us to bend and stretch the joint.	De bad oss att böja och sträcka leden.
Did you advise the client to rest the muscle?	Rådde du klienten att vila muskeln?
The nurse told me not to stretch the muscle.	Sjuksköterskan sa åt mig att inte sträcka muskeln.