Questions & Answers about Den här parken var vacker.
Wait, doesn't var mean "where"? How do I tell the difference?
Context! It is true that var is the question word "where" (as in Var är du? - Where are you?). But here, var is the simple past tense of är (is), meaning "was". Because "Where here the park beautiful" makes no grammatical sense, we know it has to be the verb "was".
Why does the sentence use the definite form parken (the park) after den här (this)?
In Swedish, when you use den här (this) or den där (that), the noun that follows must always be in its definite (the) form. So you are literally saying "this here the park" (den här parken). It is a very common beginner mistake to say den här park, but the definite ending is required!
If den här means "this", why are there two words?
Literally, den is a pronoun used for en-words, and här means "here". Swedish puts them together as den här to mean "this". If the noun were an ett-word, you would use det här instead.
Why is the adjective vacker (beautiful) and not vackert?
Adjectives describe the noun, so they have to match its gender. Because park is an en-word (en park), we use the base form of the adjective, vacker. If we were describing an ett-word, like a house (ett hus), we would add a 't' and say vackert.
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