Word
Pojken kastar stenen i den djupa floden.
Meaning
The boy throws the stone into the deep river.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Pojken kastar stenen i den djupa floden.
kasta
to throw
pojken
the boy
i
in
den
the (with en-words)
Questions & Answers about Pojken kastar stenen i den djupa floden.
Why does the phrase for "the deep river" use both den and the -en ending on floden?
This is a rule called double definiteness. When you add an adjective to a definite noun in Swedish, you have to add a separate word for "the" (den for en-words) before the adjective, AND you keep the definite ending on the noun itself. So it literally looks like "the deep river-the".
Why is there an -a at the end of djupa?
When an adjective describes a definite noun (a noun that means "the something"), the adjective almost always gets an -a at the end. The base word for "deep" is djup, but it becomes djupa here because it is paired with den and floden.
If den djupa floden uses den for "the", why doesn't "the stone" use it too (like den stenen)?
You only use the separate word den (or det) when there is an adjective describing the noun. Because there is no adjective describing the stone in this sentence, "the stone" is simply made by adding the definite ending directly to the noun: stenen.
I learned that i means "in". Why is it translated as "into" here?