Breakdown of Jag köpte chokladen som han är galen i.
jag
I
vara
to be
han
he
köpa
to buy
som
who / which / that (relative pronoun)
galen i
crazy about
chokladen
the chocolate
Questions & Answers about Jag köpte chokladen som han är galen i.
Why is it chokladen here instead of just choklad? Isn't chocolate a mass noun?
Yes, chocolate is a mass noun. If you were making a general statement like 'I love chocolate', you would use the zero article: jag älskar choklad. But here, you bought a specific chocolate, namely the one he is crazy about. Because it is specific, you must use the definite form chokladen.
Why do we use i at the end of the sentence instead of a literal word for 'about'?
The Swedish expression for being 'crazy about' something is att vara galen i (literally 'to be crazy in'). Just like in English, it is perfectly normal in Swedish to leave the preposition at the very end of a relative clause like this.
Can I drop som in this sentence just like we drop 'that' in English?
Yes, you can! Because som acts as the object of the relative clause rather than the subject (the subject is han), it is optional. Saying Jag köpte chokladen han är galen i is completely correct and very natural in spoken Swedish.
What would happen to the word galen if the sentence was 'they are crazy about'?
Because galen is an adjective describing the subject, it has to agree with it. If the subject were plural, such as de (they), you would need to change the adjective to its plural form: de är galna i.
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