Breakdown of De dansade vilt när han spelade falskt.
han
he
de
they
spela
to play
dansa
to dance
när
when
vild
wild
falsk
false
Questions & Answers about De dansade vilt när han spelade falskt.
Both vilt and falskt end in -t. How do we know they are adverbs and not neuter adjectives?
They are adverbs because they describe how an action is done (dancing and playing), rather than describing a noun. In Swedish, most adverbs are formed by adding -t to the adjective, which makes them look exactly the same as the neuter form of the adjective.
Why is it spelled vilt instead of vildt if the adjective is vild?
To make an adverb, you usually add -t to the adjective. However, Swedish spelling rules do not allow the consonant combination -dt. So, when an adjective ends in -d like vild (wild), the -d is dropped and replaced with a -t, making the adverb vilt (wildly).
The word falskt comes from falsk (false). Why does it translate to "out of tune" here?
In Swedish, playing or singing falskt literally means playing "falsely", which is the standard idiom for playing out of tune. It is formed by adding -t to the adjective falsk to describe how the person played the music.
Both dansade and spelade end in -de. What does this ending mean?
The -de suffix is the standard past tense ending for the most common group of regular verbs in Swedish. It tells us the actions happened in the past. In the present tense, these verbs would just end in -ar: dansar (dance) and spelar (play).
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