Breakdown of Tack vare den stora donationen kan forskarna bota den okända sjukdomen.
stor
big
kunna
to be able to, can
den
the (with en-words)
forskaren
the researcher
okänd
unknown
tack vare
thanks to
bota
to cure
donationen
the donation
Questions & Answers about Tack vare den stora donationen kan forskarna bota den okända sjukdomen.
Why is it tack vare here instead of på grund av?
Both can mean "due to" or "because of," but tack vare translates to "thanks to" and is used exclusively for positive reasons or outcomes. Since receiving a large donation to cure a disease is a good thing, tack vare is the perfect choice. På grund av is used for negative or neutral causes.
Why does the verb kan come before the subject forskarna?
Why is it den stora donationen instead of just stora donationen or den stora donation?
Swedish requires "double definiteness" when a definite noun is described by an adjective. You need the independent definite article (den), the definite form of the adjective (stora), and the definite suffix attached to the noun itself (-en in donationen). You see this pattern again at the end of the sentence with den okända sjukdomen.
Is vare in tack vare a verb that I need to conjugate?
Historically, it comes from an old form of the verb vara (to be). However, in modern Swedish, tack vare functions entirely as a fixed compound preposition. You never conjugate or change vare here, no matter the tense of the sentence.
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