Breakdown of Hon bryr sig om sina vänner.
vännen
the friend
sin
his/her/its/their own (en-word)
bry sig om
to care about
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Questions & Answers about Hon bryr sig om sina vänner.
Why is the word sig in this sentence?
In Swedish, 'to care about' is a reflexive verb phrase: att bry sig om. You can think of it as saying she 'cares herself about' something. Because the subject is hon (she), the reflexive pronoun must be sig. If the sentence were 'I care', it would be jag bryr mig om.
Why does it say sina vänner instead of hennes vänner for 'her friends'?
This is a very important Swedish rule! You use sina (a reflexive possessive pronoun) because the friends belong to the subject of the sentence, which is hon. If you wrote Hon bryr sig om hennes vänner, it would mean she cares about some other woman's friends, not her own.
Why does sina end with an 'a'?
Possessive words must change to match the noun they own. Because vänner (friends) is a plural word, we use the plural form sina. If she cared about just one friend (an en-word), it would be sin vän.
What role does om play here?
It belongs directly to the fixed verb phrase att bry sig om. While the word om by itself can mean 'if', 'around', or 'in' depending on the context, here it pairs with the verb to mean 'about'.