Word
Leendet fick mig att glömma allt annat.
Meaning
The smile made me forget everything else.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Leendet fick mig att glömma allt annat.
att
to
mig
me
annan
other / another (en-word)
allt
everything / all (neuter)
Questions & Answers about Leendet fick mig att glömma allt annat.
Why does the sentence use fick (got) instead of gjorde (made) to mean 'made me'?
In Swedish, you generally cannot use göra (to make) to express causing someone to do an action. Instead, you use få (to get) + object + att + infinitive verb. So, 'made me forget' translates to fick mig att glömma (literally: got me to forget).
Is the word att always required after fick mig?
Yes. In this 'cause someone to do something' structure, the second verb must be in its infinitive form and is always preceded by the infinitive marker att. It functions just like the 'to' in the English phrase 'got me to forget'.
Why is it allt annat instead of alla andra for 'everything else'?
Allt and annat are the neuter singular forms of all and annan. When talking about an abstract concept or a general 'everything', Swedish defaults to the neuter singular form. If you meant 'everyone else' or 'all the other [specific things]', you would use the plural alla andra.
How do you form the definite version ('the') for a word like leende?