Questions & Answers about Väskan är mycket tung.
How would I ask "Where is the bag?" using the question words from this lesson?
You put the question word first, followed by the verb, and then the subject. To ask "Where is the bag?", you say Var är väskan?. Notice how the verb är always comes right after the question word!
I thought mycket meant "much". Why does it mean "very" here?
You are right that mycket usually means "much" or "a lot". However, when you put it directly in front of an adjective like tung (heavy), it is used to mean "very". So mycket tung means "very heavy". Another common Swedish word for "very" is väldigt.
Why is the word for "the bag" väskan instead of just väska?
Väska is the basic word for "a bag". In Swedish, you do not use a separate word for "the". Instead, you add an ending to the noun. Because väska is an "en" word, we add an -n to the end to make it väskan (the bag).
Why does the adjective tung not have an ending here?
Adjectives in Swedish change to match the noun they describe. Because väskan is an "en" word and it is singular (just one bag), the adjective stays in its basic form, tung. If we were describing an "ett" word, we would add a "t" to make it tungt.