Questions & Answers about Har vi ost och ägg?
How would I answer this by saying 'We have no cheese and no eggs' using the words from this lesson?
You need to choose the right negative determiner based on the noun. Cheese (en ost) gets the en-word form, which is ingen. Eggs (ägg) is plural here, so it gets the plural form, inga. The sentence becomes: Vi har ingen ost och inga ägg.
Wait, doesn't ägg just mean 'egg' (singular)?
It can mean both! Ägg is an ett-word that ends in a consonant (ett ägg). In Swedish, ett-words ending in a consonant do not change in their indefinite plural form. So ett ägg means 'an egg', but flera ägg means 'several eggs'.
Why is there no Swedish word for 'Do' at the beginning of the question?
Swedish does not use a 'do' helper verb to form questions. Instead, you just swap the subject and the verb. The statement Vi har (We have) simply becomes Har vi (Have we) to turn it into a yes/no question.
Why aren't we using any articles before the food words?
Just like in English, you don't need articles when talking about uncountable mass nouns (like ost, meaning cheese in general) or indefinite plurals (like ägg, meaning eggs in general).
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