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Min bror är polis och han är galen i sport.
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My brother is a police officer and he is crazy about sports.
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Questions & Answers about Min bror är polis och han är galen i sport.
Why is it just sport without an article?
This is a perfect example of using the zero article. When you talk about an uncountable concept or a general category like sports, you don't use an article. Just like saying you drink coffee (dricker kaffe), you say you are crazy about sports in general using the base word sport.
English says "sports" in the plural. Why does Swedish use the singular sport here?
In English, "sports" is often plural when talking about the general activity. In Swedish, sport is treated as a singular mass noun when referring to the general concept. You would only use the plural sporter if you were talking about specific types of sports, like "three different sports".
Why is there no article before polis? Shouldn't it translate to "is a police officer"?
Swedish almost always drops the article (en or ett) when stating someone's profession, nationality, or beliefs after the verb är. So "is a police officer" becomes simply är polis.
Why do we use the preposition i after galen?
Prepositions rarely translate directly between languages. To say you are "crazy about" or "mad about" something, the fixed expression in Swedish is galen i (literally "crazy in").