Questions & Answers about Policyn har uppdaterats, så personalen är nervös.
How is the passive voice formed in har uppdaterats?
This sentence uses the present perfect s-passive, which perfectly matches your current lesson! To form it, take the helper verb har, add the standard supine form of the verb uppdatera (which is uppdaterat), and then attach an -s to the end. That gives us har uppdaterats (has been updated).
Why does the definite form of policy become policyn instead of taking the usual -en ending?
Policy is an en-word borrowed from English. Because it ends in a vowel, adding the standard -en ending would create an awkward double-vowel sound. Instead, Swedish simply adds an -n to make it definite: policyn (the policy).
Since the staff consists of many people, why is the adjective nervös in the singular form instead of the plural nervösa?
Grammatically, personal (staff) is a singular collective en-word in Swedish, even though it describes a group of people. Because the noun is grammatically singular, the adjective describing it must also take the singular en-word form, which is nervös.
Why doesn't the word så cause the verb and subject to swap places in the second half of the sentence?