Breakdown of De byggde sjukhuset tack vare fonden.
de
they
sjukhuset
the hospital
bygga
to build
tack vare
thanks to
fonden
the fund
Questions & Answers about De byggde sjukhuset tack vare fonden.
Why do we use vare in tack vare instead of till?
In English we say "thanks to", but directly translating it as tack till doesn't work for this meaning. tack vare is a fixed compound preposition used for a positive cause. The word vare is an old form of the verb vara (to be), so the phrase originally meant "thanks be".
Since the fund is the reason the hospital was built, could I use på grund av here?
Yes, but it changes the feeling of the sentence. på grund av (because of or due to) is neutral or sometimes negative. Because building a hospital is a good thing, tack vare is used to emphasize that the fund is a positive cause.
What verb group does byggde belong to?
byggde is the past tense of bygga (to build). It is a regular Group 2 verb. Since the stem bygg- ends in a voiced consonant, you just add -de to form the past tense.
Why is it sjukhuset and not sjukhusen?
sjukhus (hospital) is a compound word made of sjuk (sick) and hus (house). In Swedish, compound nouns always take the gender of their final word. Because it is ett hus, it is ett sjukhus. To say "the hospital", you add the definite suffix -et to get sjukhuset.
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