Breakdown of Jag respekterar din åsikt.
jag
I
din
your (singular; din/ditt/dina)
respektera
to respect
åsikten
the opinion
Questions & Answers about Jag respekterar din åsikt.
Since this lesson is about tycker and tror, how does the noun åsikt fit in?
Åsikt means "opinion" or "point of view." It is the noun you use when talking about an opinion as a thing. When you want to express your actual opinion, you use the verb tycker (for example, jag tycker att... which means "I am of the opinion that..."). But to say "I respect your opinion" or "I have an opinion," you use the noun en åsikt.
Why do we use din instead of ditt here?
Possessive words like "your" have to match the gender of the noun they describe. Because the word for opinion is an en-word (en åsikt), you must use the en-word form din. If the noun were an ett-word, like ett hus (a house), you would use ditt instead (ditt hus).
Does the ending -sikt in åsikt mean anything on its own?
Yes! The word sikt translates to "sight" or "visibility" and is related to the verb att se (to see). So en åsikt is literally your "view" on something. You will also spot this ending in other useful words like en utsikt (a view/scenery) and en insikt (an insight).
Respekterar sounds almost exactly like the English word. Are there many verbs like this?
Yes, Swedish has many "loan words" from Latin, French, and English that end in -era in their infinitive form and -erar in the present tense. They are very regular and belong to Verb Group 1. Other examples you might recognize are studerar (study), parkerar (park), and diskuterar (discuss).
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