Breakdown of Vi arkiverade agendan för kvartalet i våras.
vi
we
för
for, to
våren
the spring
i
last (in past time expressions)
agendan
the agenda
arkivera
to archive
kvartalet
the quarter (of a year)
Questions & Answers about Vi arkiverade agendan för kvartalet i våras.
Why does i våras mean "last spring" instead of just "in the spring"?
The structure i plus a season or day ending in -s specifically refers to the most recently passed time period. So i våras means "last spring" or "this past spring". If you wanted to say "in the spring" as a general habit, you would use på våren instead.
Must the verb always be in the past tense when using i våras?
Yes! Because i våras always points to a completed past event, your verb must be in the past tense, just like arkiverade (archived) is here. You cannot use a present tense verb with an i...-s time expression.
Why is it kvartalet and not just kvartal?
The sentence says "for the quarter", which requires the definite form. Because ett kvartal (a quarter) is an "ett" word, it takes the -et ending in the definite singular to become kvartalet.
Agendan looks just like English. How do its word endings work in Swedish?
Like many borrowed words ending in -a, en agenda follows standard Swedish rules for "en" words. To say "the agenda" as we do here, you add -n to make agendan. If you needed the plural "agendas", you would drop the -a and add -or to make agendor.
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