Questions & Answers about Var sätter han sig?
Why does the sentence use sig here?
The verb sätter on its own usually means "put" or "set". To say "sit down" in Swedish, you use the reflexive verb sätter sig, which literally translates to "sets himself".
Can I just use the verb sitter instead of sätter sig?
Not quite! Sitter describes the state of already being seated (like "he is sitting"). Sätter sig describes the physical action of sitting down.
What if the sentence was "Where do I sit down?" instead of "he"?
You would change the subject pronoun and its matching reflexive pronoun. It would become Var sätter jag mig? (Where do I set myself?). The word sig is only used for third-person subjects like han (he), hon (she), den/det (it), or de (they).
Where does the reflexive pronoun go in a question like this?
Swedish uses the verb-second rule. After the question word Var, the verb sätter comes in the second position. The subject han follows the verb, and the reflexive pronoun sig tags along right after the subject.
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