Breakdown of Vi har aldrig trott på nyheten.
vi
we
tro
to believe
ha
to have
aldrig
never
på
on / at / for (wait for) / in (believe in)
nyheten
the news
Questions & Answers about Vi har aldrig trott på nyheten.
How do we get the form trott from the verb tro?
Tro (to believe) belongs to Group 3, which consists of short verbs that end in a vowel other than -a. To form the supinum—the verb form used after har (have)—you add -tt to the stem. Therefore, tro becomes trott.
Why does aldrig go in the middle of the verbs har and trott?
In a standard Swedish main clause, sentence adverbs like aldrig (never) and inte (not) are placed immediately after the first, conjugated verb. Here, har is the first verb, so aldrig steps in right before the second verb, trott.
Why is there a på here? English just says "believed the news".
In Swedish, the phrasal verb tro på is used when you mean "believe in" something or "trust that something is true" (like a story, the news, or a person). If you use tro without på, it usually just means "to think" or "to guess", as in the phrase Jag tror det (I think so).
In English, "news" looks plural. Is nyheten singular or plural?
It is singular! The base word is en nyhet (a piece of news), and nyheten is the singular definite form meaning "the news story". Unlike English, Swedish treats news as countable. If you wanted to talk about a whole broadcast of news stories, you would use the plural definite form: nyheterna.
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