Breakdown of Mannens läkare jobbar på sjukhuset.
jobba
to work
mannen
the man
på
on / at / for (wait for) / in (believe in)
sjukhuset
the hospital
Questions & Answers about Mannens läkare jobbar på sjukhuset.
Why is there no apostrophe in Mannens?
Unlike English ("the man's"), Swedish doesn't use an apostrophe to show possession. You just add an -s directly to the end of the word. Here, we take the definite noun mannen (the man) and add -s to get mannens (the man's).
Why is it just läkare instead of the definite form läkaren?
In Swedish, whenever you use a possessive word ending in -s (like Mannens), the noun that comes right after it must be in the indefinite form. Even though we are talking about a specific doctor, we use läkare (doctor) instead of läkaren (the doctor).
På usually means "on", so why is it translated as "at" here?
Prepositions rarely translate one-to-one between languages. In Swedish, på is the standard preposition used when someone works at a workplace, institution, or business, such as på sjukhuset (at the hospital) or på en restaurang (at a restaurant).
How is the word sjukhuset formed?