Breakdown of Vi vill veta vilket parti som har flest röster.
vi
we
ha
to have
veta
to know (facts, information)
vilja
to want to
vilket
which (ett) / what a (ett-word, exclamatory)
som
who / which / that (relative pronoun)
partiet
the party (political)
rösten
the vote
flest
most (countable)
Questions & Answers about Vi vill veta vilket parti som har flest röster.
Why do we use flest instead of mest here?
flest is the word for "most" when you are talking about things you can count, because it is the superlative form of många (many). Since röster (votes) are countable, we use flest. If we were talking about something uncountable, like power or water, we would use mest.
What is som doing in this sentence?
Here, som is a required grammar word for indirect questions. Because vilket parti (which party) is the subject of the second part of the sentence (it is the party doing the action of having the votes), Swedish requires you to add som right after it. A direct question would just be Vilket parti har flest röster? but when it is embedded inside another sentence, it becomes ...vilket parti som har flest röster.
Why is it vilket and not vilken?
The Swedish word for a political party is an ett-word: ett parti. The question word for "which" has to match the gender of the noun it belongs to, so it becomes vilket instead of the en-word form vilken.
Why isn't there an att before veta? Doesn't the English translation say "want to know"?
Yes, but in Swedish, vill is a modal verb. Modal verbs like vill (want to), kan (can), and måste (must) are followed directly by the infinitive form of the next verb. You never put att (to) between them, so it is simply vill veta.
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