Breakdown of Ingen städade köket igår.
städa
to clean
igår
yesterday
ingen
no, none (en-word)
köket
the kitchen
Questions & Answers about Ingen städade köket igår.
Why do we use ingen here instead of inget or inga?
In this sentence, ingen stands alone as a pronoun meaning nobody or no one. When used this way to refer to people in general, it is always ingen. You would only use inget or inga on their own if you were referring back to specific objects (meaning none).
If I moved igår to the beginning of the sentence, what would happen?
You would have to swap the subject and the verb to follow the V2 rule, which says the verb must be in the second position. If you start with the time word igår, the verb städade has to come immediately after it, followed by the subject ingen: Igår städade ingen köket.
Why is it köket and not just kök?
The sentence specifies the kitchen, so you need the definite form. Because kitchen is an ett-word (ett kök), you add -et to the end of the noun to make it definite (köket).
What tells us that städade is in the past tense?
The -ade ending is your clue. The dictionary form of the verb is städa (to clean). It belongs to Group 1, the most common verb group in Swedish, which always forms the past tense by adding -de to the end.
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