Breakdown of Vilken byggnad har all konst?
ha
to have
vilken
which (en) / what a (en-word, exclamatory)
all
all (singular en-words)
konsten
the art
Questions & Answers about Vilken byggnad har all konst?
Why is it all konst and not allt or alla?
konst (art) is an en-word. When saying 'all' of an uncountable or singular en-word, you must use the en-word form all. You would use allt for ett-words and alla for plurals.
The English translation says 'all the art'. Why doesn't the Swedish sentence use the definite form konsten?
In Swedish, when you put all, allt, or alla directly in front of a noun to mean 'all the' or 'all of', the noun usually stays in its indefinite (base) form. So 'all the art' translates simply to all konst.
Why is it vilken byggnad instead of vilket byggnad?
The word for 'which' has to match the gender of the noun it describes. Because byggnad (building) is an en-word, we use vilken. If it were an ett-word like hus (house), it would be vilket hus.
Why does the verb har come after the subject here, instead of at the beginning of the question?
Questions that start with a question phrase like Vilken byggnad still follow the 'verb second' (V2) rule. The entire phrase Vilken byggnad takes up the first position in the sentence, so the verb har must come right after it in the second position.