Breakdown of Belöningen gömdes i parken där hunden skäller.
hunden
the dog
parken
the park
i
in
där
where (relative)
gömma
to hide
skälla
bark
belöningen
the reward
Questions & Answers about Belöningen gömdes i parken där hunden skäller.
What does the -s at the end of gömdes do here?
In a lesson about relative words like vars (whose) and som (that), why use där here?
Där (where) works as a relative adverb pointing back to a place (parken). Just as vars links to an owner, där links to a location. Swedish prefers där over clunky alternatives like i vilken (in which).
Is it normal to mix the past tense gömdes and the present tense skäller in the same sentence?
Yes, it is perfectly fine because they describe different timeframes. The action of hiding the reward happened in the past, but the dog is barking right now in the present.
The infinitive is gömma (to hide) with two m's. Why does gömdes only have one?
Swedish usually drops one consonant from a double consonant when adding a suffix that starts with another consonant. So gömma drops an m before adding the past tense ending -de to become gömde (and then the passive gömdes).
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