Breakdown of Vad ska ni göra i helgen?
ni
you (plural, subject)
vad
what
i
in
göra
to do, to make
ska
will
helgen
the weekend
Questions & Answers about Vad ska ni göra i helgen?
Why is it "ska göra" instead of "ska att göra"?
In Swedish, when you use ska (are going to / will) to talk about the future, the second verb must be in its basic dictionary form (the bare infinitive). You never use att (to) between them. So it is simply ska göra (are going to do), which works a lot like "will do" in English!
The translation just says "you". Why does the Swedish sentence use "ni" instead of "du"?
English uses "you" for both one person and multiple people, but Swedish makes a strict distinction. Du is singular (you, one person) and ni is plural (you, two or more people). Since this sentence uses ni, the speaker is asking what a group of people is going to do.
"I helgen" means "this weekend", but doesn't "helgen" literally mean "the weekend"?
Yes, it does! Helgen is the definite form of helg (weekend). In Swedish, the fixed phrase i helgen is used to mean "this weekend" or "this coming weekend". You don't literally translate the English word "this"; instead, you use i plus the definite form of the noun.
Why are the two verbs "ska" and "göra" separated by the subject "ni"?
This happens because of the Swedish verb-second rule. In a question that starts with a question word like vad (what), the first verb—in this case, the helper verb ska—must be in the second position. The subject (ni) steps in right after it, pushing the main verb (göra) further back in the sentence.
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