Learn Swedish: Vi leker ofta utomhus på lördagar. - We often play outdoors on Saturdays.

In Swedish, when you want to express that something happens regularly on a certain day of the week, you use the preposition på followed by the plural form of the day. So, på lördagar means 'on Saturdays' or 'every Saturday'. If it were just one specific Saturday, you would use a different form, like på lördag for 'this coming Saturday' or i lördags for 'last Saturday'.

Why is 'play' translated as leker here instead of spelar?

Swedish has different words for 'play'. Leker is used for imaginative play or children playing around, which fits perfectly with playing outdoors. Spelar is used when you are playing a structured game with rules, a sport, or a musical instrument (like spelar fotboll or spelar piano).

Why is the word ofta (often) placed after the verb leker?

In a standard Swedish main clause, the verb must be the second piece of information (this is called the V2 rule). Here, the subject Vi is in position 1, so the verb leker must take position 2. Adverbs like ofta that describe how often something happens usually come right after the verb in this standard word order.

How does the word utomhus (outdoors) break down?