Breakdown of Floristen måste skapa en vacker dekoration av rosor.
en
a, an (common)
måste
to have to, must
vacker
beautiful
av
of, by / from (cause)
skapa
to create
floristen
the florist
rosen
the rose
dekorationen
the decoration
Questions & Answers about Floristen måste skapa en vacker dekoration av rosor.
Since this lesson is about 'vad ... för', how would I use it to ask 'What kind of decoration must the florist create?' based on this sentence?
You would say: Vad måste floristen skapa för dekoration? Notice how the split interrogative works here: vad (what) goes at the beginning of the question, and för dekoration (kind of decoration) goes after the active verbs and the subject.
Why is av used here instead of a word for 'out' or 'from'?
In Swedish, the preposition av is specifically used to indicate what material something is made of, translating well to 'of' or 'out of' in English. A decoration constructed from roses is therefore en dekoration av rosor.
Why is there no att (to) before the verb skapa?
Måste (must/have to) is a modal verb. Just like in English, Swedish modal verbs are followed directly by the infinitive of the next verb without using att. You say 'must create', not 'must to create', so it simply becomes måste skapa.
What is the singular form of rosor?
The singular is en ros (a rose). It takes the -or suffix in the plural (rosor). While most words that take an -or plural end in -a in their singular form (like en blomma becoming blommor), ros is a common exception that is helpful to memorize at this level.
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