Word
På hösten regnar det mycket i Sverige.
Meaning
In the autumn it rains a lot in Sweden.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of På hösten regnar det mycket i Sverige.
det
it (neuter)
mycket
much / very
i
in
på
on / at / for (wait for) / in (believe in)
Questions & Answers about På hösten regnar det mycket i Sverige.
Why do we say på hösten instead of i höst?
When you talk about a season in general or something that happens every year during that season, Swedish uses på plus the definite form of the season. If you said i höst, it would mean "this coming autumn" instead.
Why is it hösten (the autumn) and not just höst?
In English, we often just say "in autumn." But in Swedish, the rule for habitual time expressions is på + the definite form of the noun. So you must use hösten (the autumn), sommaren (the summer), and so on when talking about what happens in those seasons generally.
Why does the verb regnar come before the subject det?
This is the Swedish V2 (verb-second) rule! Because the sentence starts with the time phrase på hösten (which counts as the first block of information), the verb regnar must come exactly second. The subject det is pushed to the third spot.
Does det work the same way as "it" in English here?
Yes! Just like in English, Swedish uses a dummy subject for weather. We say det regnar (it rains) because the sentence grammatically needs a subject, even though no specific person or object is doing the raining.