Word
Vi kan vandra tills mörkret kommer.
Meaning
We can hike until the darkness comes.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Vi kan vandra tills mörkret kommer.
vi
we
kunna
to be able to, can
komma
to come
vandra
to hike
Questions & Answers about Vi kan vandra tills mörkret kommer.
Can I just use till instead of tills here?
No, because they have different grammatical jobs! till is a preposition used before a noun (like "to the cabin"). tills is a subordinating conjunction used before a full clause—meaning a phrase that has its own subject and verb. Since mörkret kommer (the darkness comes) is a full clause, you must use tills.
How does tills affect the word order in the second half of the sentence?
tills introduces a subordinate (dependent) clause: tills mörkret kommer. In Swedish subordinate clauses, the subject (mörkret) comes directly after the conjunction, followed by the verb (kommer). If you wanted to add a small "sentence adverb" like säkert (surely) or inte (not), remember the golden rule for subordinate clauses: the adverb goes before the verb (tills mörkret säkert kommer).
Why is the spelling mörkret instead of "mörkeret"?
The base word is ett mörker (a darkness). To make it definite ("the darkness"), you add -et. However, when an ett word ends in -el, -er, or -en, it usually drops its final e before adding the definite ending to make it easier to say. So, mörker + et becomes mörkret.