Word
Regissören gör en serie som är spännande.
Meaning
The director is making a series that is exciting.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Regissören gör en serie som är spännande.
vara
to be
en
a, an (common)
göra
to do, to make
serien
the series
Questions & Answers about Regissören gör en serie som är spännande.
Why do we use som here, and can we leave it out?
som is a relative pronoun meaning 'that' or 'which'. Here it acts as the subject of the second part of the sentence (som är spännande). Just like in English, when 'that' is the subject of the relative clause, you cannot drop it.
Does the adjective spännande change if we describe an ett-word or a plural noun instead of en serie?
No, it stays exactly the same! Words ending in -ande or -ende are verb forms acting as adjectives (like '-ing' words in English). In Swedish, these words never change form to match the noun's gender or number.
Is serie singular or plural here?
It is singular, meaning 'a series' or 'a show'. Even though it looks a bit like a plural word, the actual plural form is serier. You can also tell it is singular here because it has the singular article en in front of it.
The English translation says 'is making'. How would you translate 'The director makes a series'?
It would be exactly the same: Regissören gör en serie. Swedish does not have a separate 'is doing' tense. The simple present tense verb gör covers both 'makes' and 'is making'.