Breakdown of Vi gjorde ärendet för att hjälpa föreningen.
vi
we
hjälpa
to help
göra
to do, to make
att
to
för
for, to
ärendet
the errand
föreningen
the association
Questions & Answers about Vi gjorde ärendet för att hjälpa föreningen.
Since this lesson is about prepositions like för and åt, why is the word att added after för here?
While för, åt, and till are used before nouns and pronouns to show who benefits from an action, this sentence uses för att to show the purpose of an action. Whenever you want to say 'in order to' followed by a verb (here, hjälpa), you must use the fixed phrase för att.
The English translation says 'ran the errand', but doesn't gjorde mean 'did'?
Yes! In English we say 'run an errand', but the Swedish expression is göra ett ärende (literally 'do an errand'). If you tried to use sprang (ran), it would sound like you were physically sprinting.
Ärendet means 'the errand'. What is the base form of this noun?
The base form is ett ärende (an errand or matter). Since it is an 'ett' word that already ends in a vowel, you just add -t to make it definite, giving us ärendet.
How does the word föreningen (the association) relate to other Swedish words?
It is built from the verb förena, which means 'to unite' or 'to join'. The suffix -ing turns it into the noun en förening (an association or union), and the -en at the end makes it definite (the association).
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