Breakdown of Tretton pojkar och fjorton flickor leker i parken.
och
and
parken
the park
pojken
the boy
flickan
the girl
leka
to play (as children do)
i
in
tretton
thirteen
fjorton
fourteen
Questions & Answers about Tretton pojkar och fjorton flickor leker i parken.
Why is it leker here instead of spelar for "playing"?
In Swedish, leker is used for children's unstructured, imaginative play. If they were playing a sport, a board game, or a musical instrument, you would use spelar instead.
How do the plural words pojkar and flickor get their endings?
They follow common Swedish patterns! Flicka (girl) ends in -a, so it takes the -or ending to become flickor. Pojke (boy) ends in -e, so it drops the -e and adds -ar to become pojkar.
Why does the word for park have -en at the end?
Parken means "the park". Instead of putting a separate word for "the" in front of the noun like in English, Swedish attaches an ending to the word. Because park is an en-word (en park), you add -en to the end.
How do the teen numbers tretton and fjorton work?
Just like English adds "-teen", Swedish adds -ton for numbers from 13 to 19. Tre (three) becomes tretton, and fyra (four) changes slightly to become fjorton.
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