Breakdown of Myntet från skatten blev antagligen undersökt i laboratoriet.
i
in
från
from
bli
to become
myntet
the coin
laboratoriet
the laboratory
antagligen
probably (presumably)
skatten
the treasure
undersöka
to examine
Questions & Answers about Myntet från skatten blev antagligen undersökt i laboratoriet.
Why is it undersökt instead of having a special ett-word ending to match myntet?
The subject is myntet, which is an ett-word, so the past participle must take the ett-word form. For most verbs, this means ending in -t. Since the verb undersöka takes a -t in its base past participle form (because its stem ends in a hard consonant, k), the en-word and ett-word forms are actually identical: undersökt. If the subject were plural, it would become undersökta.
Could I use the s-passive (undersöktes) instead of blev undersökt here?
Why is antagligen placed right in the middle of the verbs blev and undersökt?
In a main clause, sentence adverbs like antagligen (probably), inte (not), or alltid (always) go immediately after the first, conjugated verb. Here, blev is that first verb, so the adverb jumps in right after it, pushing the past participle undersökt further back in the sentence.
Why does the word for laboratory look like laboratoriet instead of laboratoriumet?
The sentence says it happened in the laboratory, so we need the definite form. Laboratorium is an ett-word that ends in -um. To make these specific loanwords definite, you drop the -um and add -et, which gives us laboratoriet.
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