Word
De svettas mycket i studion.
Meaning
They sweat a lot in the studio.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
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Questions & Answers about De svettas mycket i studion.
Why does svettas end in an -s? Does that make it a passive verb?
No, it is not passive! Svettas is a deponent verb. These are special verbs that always end in -s but have a normal, active meaning. So here, de svettas simply means "they sweat" or "they are sweating", not that something is being done to them.
How do I know if svettas is in the present tense or the infinitive?
For many deponent verbs, the infinitive (to sweat) and the present tense (sweat/are sweating) are exactly the same word: svettas. You can tell it is in the present tense here because it is the main active verb placed right after the subject De.
Why is "the studio" written as studion?
The base word is en studio. When an en-word already ends in a vowel (like the -o in studio), you usually just add an -n to the end to make it the definite form ("the studio").
As a quick reminder, how should I pronounce De in this sentence?
Even though it is spelled De, it is almost always pronounced as dom in everyday spoken Swedish.