Breakdown of Jag sammanfattade förhandlingen i en presentation i fredags.
jag
I
en
a, an (common)
i
in
i fredags
last Friday
sammanfatta
to summarize
presentationen
the presentation
förhandlingen
the negotiation
Questions & Answers about Jag sammanfattade förhandlingen i en presentation i fredags.
Why do we say i fredags instead of just på fredag to mean "last Friday"?
The pattern i + day + -s is a specific rule in Swedish to talk about a day in the past. So, i fredags means "last Friday". If you said på fredag, it would mean "on Friday" (usually looking ahead to the upcoming Friday). The -s on the end is your signal that the event has already happened!
Can I use the i ... -s pattern for other time words?
It only works for days of the week and seasons. You can say i måndags (last Monday) or i somras (last summer). You cannot use it for months, weeks, or years. For those, you have to use different structures, like förra veckan (last week) or förra året (last year).
How is the word sammanfattade formed?
It is the past tense of sammanfatta (to summarize). This is a very logical compound word: samman means "together" and fatta means "to grasp" or "to catch". When you summarize a negotiation, you are "grasping it together".
Does the double use of i in i en presentation i fredags sound repetitive to a Swede?
Not at all! While it might look repetitive to an English speaker, prepositions in Swedish are tied to specific rules. The first i means "in" (in a presentation), and the second i is just a mandatory part of the time expression i fredags. They function completely differently, so it sounds perfectly natural to a native speaker.
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