Word
Vi äter bananer på morgonen.
Meaning
We eat bananas in the morning.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Vi äter bananer på morgonen.
vi
we
äta
to eat
på
on / at / for (wait for) / in (believe in)
morgonen
the morning
Questions & Answers about Vi äter bananer på morgonen.
How do we know to add -er to make banan plural?
Banan is an en-word where the stress falls on the final syllable (ba-NAN). Nouns with this pattern usually belong to Group 3, which means they form their plural by adding -er.
Why does the sentence use på for "in"? Shouldn't it be i?
Prepositions rarely translate exactly between English and Swedish! For parts of the day, Swedish uses på. You will always see på morgonen for "in the morning", so it is best to learn it as a fixed phrase.
Why is morgonen in the definite form here?
Just like in English where we say "in the morning", Swedish uses the definite form of the noun for this phrase. Since morgon is an en-word, it takes the -en ending to become morgonen.
How does adding -er change the pronunciation of bananer?
The stress in the singular word banan is on the last syllable (ba-NAN). When you add the -er ending, the stress stays on that same "a", making it sound like ba-NA-ner.