Breakdown of Vi bär ut de tunga sopsäckarna nu.
vi
we
tung
heavy
nu
now
de
the (plural, before adjective)
bära ut
to carry out
sopsäcken
the trash bag
Questions & Answers about Vi bär ut de tunga sopsäckarna nu.
In the phrase bär ut, which word gets the spoken stress?
In Swedish particle verbs, the stress always falls on the particle (the short preposition or adverb), not the main verb. So you should emphasize ut rather than bär.
Can I separate bär and ut like in English: "vi bär de tunga sopsäckarna ut"?
No. Unlike English, where you can say "carry the bags out," Swedish keeps the verb and its particle together when there is an object. The particle ut must come right after the verb bär and before the object de tunga sopsäckarna.
Why are there so many definite endings in de tunga sopsäckarna?
This is the Swedish "double definite" rule. When a definite noun has an adjective, you need the freestanding article de (the), the adjective ending -a for tunga (heavy), and the definite plural ending -rna on the noun sopsäckarna (the trash bags).
If I want to emphasize nu (now) by putting it at the start of the sentence, what happens to bär ut?
Because of the V2 rule (verb is always the second idea), the verb must swap places with the subject. It becomes: Nu bär vi ut de tunga sopsäckarna. The particle ut stays right next to the verb bär.
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