Questions & Answers about Är du galen i musik?
Why is there no article before musik here?
In Swedish, mass nouns (uncountable nouns like musik, kaffe, or vatten) take the zero article when you are making a general statement. Just like in English, you say "crazy about music" and not "the music". If you were talking about a specific song playing right now, you would use the definite form instead: musiken.
Why do we use i (in) instead of a word for "about"?
Prepositions rarely translate word-for-word between languages. In Swedish, the fixed expression for being "crazy about" or "madly in love with" something or someone is galen i. Using a word like om (about) here would sound unnatural to a native speaker.
How would this sentence change if I were asking a group of people?
You would need to change the pronoun to the plural ni (you all) and update the adjective galen to its plural form, galna. The sentence would become: Är ni galna i musik?
Can galen i also mean being angry at someone?
No, galen i specifically means being very enthusiastic about or infatuated with something. If you want to say you are "mad at" or angry with someone, you would use the phrase arg på.
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