Word
Det där huset är varken centralt eller tyst.
Meaning
That house is neither central nor quiet.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Det där huset är varken centralt eller tyst.
vara
to be
huset
the house
eller
or
det där
that (ett)
Questions & Answers about Det där huset är varken centralt eller tyst.
Do I need to use inte when using varken ... eller in a sentence like this?
No. varken ... eller means 'neither ... nor', so the negative meaning is already built into these words. Adding inte would be redundant.
Why is it Det där huset (literally 'that there the house') instead of just Det där hus?
In Swedish, pointing words like det där (that) or den här (this) must be followed by the definite ('the') form of the noun. So 'that house' is always det där huset.
Why do we use centralt instead of just central?
Adjectives have to match the noun they describe. Because hus is an ett-word, the adjective central takes a -t at the end to become centralt.
If hus is an ett-word, why doesn't tyst get an extra -t at the end?
Because tyst (quiet) already ends in a -t, it doesn't get another one. Adjectives that naturally end in a single or double -t usually stay exactly the same when describing ett-words.