Questions & Answers about Det är allt vanligare att flytta från landsbygden.
How does allt vanligare translate to "increasingly common"?
In Swedish, you express a continuous change (like "more and more" or "increasingly" in English) by using the word allt followed by an adjective in its comparative form. Here, vanlig (common) becomes vanligare (more common), so allt vanligare means "more and more common" or "increasingly common".
Why doesn't vanligare get a -t ending to match the ett-word Det?
When an adjective is in the comparative form (usually ending in -are), it never changes its ending to match the gender or number of the noun or pronoun. Even though Det is an ett-word, vanligare stays exactly as it is.
Why do we need att before flytta here?
The sentence uses the impersonal structure "It is [adjective] to [verb]". In Swedish, just like in English, you need the infinitive marker att (to) before the verb when using this pattern. Therefore, att flytta translates directly to "to move".
How is the word landsbygden built?