Breakdown of Jag gissar att det är drygt tusen besökare här.
jag
I
vara
to be
här
here
att
that
besökaren
the visitor
det
there (dummy subject)
tusen
thousand
gissa
to guess
drygt
just over
Questions & Answers about Jag gissar att det är drygt tusen besökare här.
What does drygt mean in this context, and what is its opposite?
Drygt is used to estimate quantities and means "a little more than" or "just over." It modifies the number tusen here. The opposite word, which you are also learning in this lesson, is knappt, meaning "just under" or "barely."
Why does the sentence use det är instead of det finns for "there are"?
While det finns is the standard way to express existence ("there is/are"), det är is very commonly used when talking about how many people are present at an event or a temporary situation. Both are correct here, but det är feels very natural when looking at a crowd and guessing its size.
The word tusen means a thousand, but why doesn't besökare have a plural ending?
Swedish nouns that end in -are and refer to people, like besökare (visitor) or lärare (teacher), do not change form in the indefinite plural. Therefore, en besökare is "a visitor" and tusen besökare is "a thousand visitors."
If I wanted to add inte (not) to the second part of the sentence, where would it go?
Because att det är... introduces a subordinate clause, it follows a specific word order rule where sentence adverbs like inte come before the verb. You would say: Jag gissar att det inte är drygt tusen besökare här.
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