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Deras nya hemsida är faktiskt mycket märklig.

Deras nya hemsida är faktiskt mycket märklig.
Their new website is actually very strange.
From Lesson 144:Adjective agreement after possessives (min gamla...)·Swedish

Questions & Answers about Deras nya hemsida är faktiskt mycket märklig.

Why do we use the -a ending on nya but keep hemsida in its basic form?
This is a strict Swedish rule! After a possessive word like deras (their), you must use the definite form of the adjective (which usually ends in -a, like nya). However, the noun that follows it must stay in its indefinite form (just hemsida, not hemsidan).
Since nya gets an -a ending, why doesn't märklig?
Nya gets the -a because it is directly attached to the possessive deras. Märklig (strange) comes after the verb är (is) and is just describing the noun normally. Because en hemsida is a singular en-word, märklig stays in its basic, indefinite form.
Is faktiskt related to the English word "factual"?
They come from the same root, but in Swedish, faktiskt is a very common word that means "actually" or "in fact", rather than "factual".
Does deras change depending on the noun, like min and din do?
No! Unlike words for "my" (min/mitt/mina) or "your" (din/ditt/dina), the word deras (their) is a fixed word. It stays exactly the same regardless of whether the noun is an en-word, an ett-word, or plural.

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