Breakdown of Flickan har sexton nya tröjor.
flickan
the girl
ha
to have
tröjan
the sweater
ny
new
sexton
sixteen
Questions & Answers about Flickan har sexton nya tröjor.
Why is it flickan and not just flicka?
Flicka means girl or a girl. In Swedish, to say the girl, you attach the word the to the end of the noun instead of using a separate word. For an en word ending in a vowel, you just add -n. So flicka becomes flickan (the girl).
Why does the word for new, nya, end in an a here?
Adjectives in Swedish change depending on the word they describe. Because there are multiple sweaters (tröjor is plural), you must use the plural form of the adjective. To make an adjective plural, you generally add an -a. The base word ny (new) becomes nya.
How do we form the plural word tröjor?
The singular word for a sweater is en tröja. For most en words that end in -a, you make them plural by dropping the final -a and adding -or. That gives us tröjor for sweaters.
Does the verb har change depending on who is doing the action?
No, it does not. A great thing about Swedish is that verbs do not change based on the subject (who is doing the action). Whether it is I have (jag har), they have (de har), or the girl has (flickan har), the verb stays exactly the same in the present tense.
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