Word
Processen har utvecklats för att hjälpa personalen.
Meaning
The process has been developed to help the staff.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Processen har utvecklats för att hjälpa personalen.
hjälpa
to help
ha
to have
att
to
för
for, to
Questions & Answers about Processen har utvecklats för att hjälpa personalen.
How exactly is the passive form har utvecklats built here?
The present perfect passive is formed by taking har plus the supinum form of the verb (the form you normally use after har) and adding an -s. The active supinum of utveckla (to develop) is utvecklat, so adding the passive -s gives us har utvecklats (has been developed).
Could I use har blivit instead to make this passive?
Why is it för att hjälpa and not just att hjälpa?
In Swedish, when the English "to" means "in order to" (showing the purpose or goal of an action), you must use för att. If you only used att hjälpa, it wouldn't properly express the reason why the process was developed.
Is personalen treated as singular or plural here?
Personalen is a grammatically singular word (an en-word in its definite form: en personal becomes personalen), even though it refers to a group of people. It works just like the English collective noun "the staff".