Word
Vi gjorde inga betalningar i höstas.
Meaning
We made no payments last autumn.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Vi gjorde inga betalningar i höstas.
vi
we
göra
to do, to make
inga
no (plural)
hösten
the autumn
Questions & Answers about Vi gjorde inga betalningar i höstas.
Why does höst get an -as ending here instead of just -s?
To talk about a past season, Swedish uses i plus the season name and an -s or -as ending. While days of the week just add -s (like i måndags), seasons generally take -as. So höst becomes i höstas, just like vår becomes i våras and sommar becomes i somras.
Could I just say förra hösten instead of i höstas?
Yes, förra hösten (the previous autumn) is also grammatically correct and means the same thing. However, the i + season + -as format is extremely common in everyday speech for referring to the most recently passed season, so it is important to know.
Why do we use inga here instead of ingen or inget?
Inga is the plural form of the word for 'no' (meaning zero quantity). Because the noun betalningar (payments) is plural, the negative article must agree with it. If you were talking about a single payment, it would be ingen betalning.
Can I say inte några instead of inga?