Word
På tisdagar brukar laget träna inomhus.
Meaning
On Tuesdays the team usually trains indoors.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of På tisdagar brukar laget träna inomhus.
på
on / at / for (wait for) / in (believe in)
träna
to exercise
tisdag
Tuesday
laget
the team
Questions & Answers about På tisdagar brukar laget träna inomhus.
Why do we use på tisdagar to express "on Tuesdays"?
To talk about a recurring habit on a specific day of the week, Swedish uses the preposition på followed by the plural, indefinite form of the day. Since "Tuesday" is en tisdag, the plural is tisdagar. Together, på tisdagar means "on Tuesdays" or "every Tuesday".
Why is the word order brukar laget and not laget brukar?
How does brukar translate to "usually"?
In English, "usually" is an adverb. But in Swedish, brukar is a verb that means "to usually do" or "to be in the habit of doing". Because it acts like a helper verb, it is followed by the main action verb in its infinitive (dictionary) form. That is why we have brukar ... träna (usually train).
What is the base form of laget?
The base form is ett lag (a team). Because it is an ett-word, it takes the -et ending to become the definite form ("the team"), which gives us laget.