Questions & Answers about Vi köper femton röda blommor.
Why does the sentence use köper for "are buying" instead of translating the word "are"?
Swedish doesn't have a separate "are doing" form like English does. The present tense verb köper translates to both "buy" and "are buying" depending on what makes sense in English.
Why is "red" written as röda here instead of just röd?
Adjectives in Swedish change their ending depending on the noun they describe. Because we are talking about multiple flowers (blommor is plural), we add an -a to the base word röd to get the plural form röda.
How do we get the plural word blommor from the singular word for flower?
The singular word for a flower is en blomma. When an en word ends in -a, you usually make it plural by dropping that -a and adding -or. This turns blomma into blommor.
Is femton (fifteen) made of two smaller words?
Yes! Just like in English where "fifteen" comes from five and ten, the Swedish word femton combines fem (five) and -ton (a suffix used for the teen numbers).
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