Breakdown of Stormen kommer att börja ikväll.
att
to (before a verb)
börja
to start
komma
to come
ikväll
tonight
stormen
the storm
Questions & Answers about Stormen kommer att börja ikväll.
Why use kommer att börja instead of just the present tense börjar?
The phrase kommer att is used for future predictions, especially for things outside of our control like the weather. While you can sometimes use the present tense for future scheduled events in Swedish, kommer att makes it perfectly clear that this is a prediction about the storm.
Why is the verb börja used instead of börjar?
The phrase kommer att must always be followed by the infinitive (the dictionary form) of a verb. To get the infinitive here, we drop the present tense -r from börjar to make the bare infinitive börja.
How does stormen mean 'the storm'?
In Swedish, the definite article (the word 'the') is added to the end of the noun instead of being a separate word in front. Since storm is an en-word, we add the suffix -en to make it stormen.
Is ikväll always written as one word?
Yes, ikväll (tonight or this evening) is written as a single word. You will see this pattern with the letter i in other common future and present time words too, like idag (today) and imorgon (tomorrow).
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