Breakdown of Kvinnan har en vit väska och en blå tröja.
en
a, an (common)
och
and
kvinnan
the woman
väskan
the bag
ha
to have
tröjan
the sweater
vit
white
blå
blue
Questions & Answers about Kvinnan har en vit väska och en blå tröja.
How would I ask 'Which bag?' or 'Which sweater?' using the grammar from this lesson?
Because both väska (bag) and tröja (sweater) are en words, you use the question word vilken. You would ask Vilken väska? or Vilken tröja?. If they were ett words, you would need to use vilket instead.
Why do the adjectives vit and blå not have any extra endings here?
In Swedish, adjectives must match the gender of the noun they describe. Since väska and tröja are both singular en words, the adjectives stay in their basic form. If they were describing ett words, they would take a -t ending to become vitt and blått.
I learned that 'woman' is en kvinna. Why is it spelled kvinnan here?
Swedish usually doesn't use a separate word for 'the'. Instead, the article attaches to the end of the noun. For an en word that already ends in a vowel, like kvinna, you just add an -n to the end to make it kvinnan (the woman).
If the woman had multiple white bags, how would the words change?
If it were plural, you would use vita väskor. The adjective vit gets an -a ending for all plural nouns, and väska changes to its plural form, väskor.
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