Breakdown of Flickan visar postombudet legitimationen.
flickan
the girl
visa
to show
postombudet
the postal agent
legitimationen
the identification
Questions & Answers about Flickan visar postombudet legitimationen.
Why is there no preposition like 'to' before postombudet?
Swedish often allows double objects without a preposition, placing the indirect receiver (postombudet) right before the direct object (legitimationen). This perfectly matches the English structure when we say 'shows the agent the ID'.
If I wanted to put the ID first, how would I rephrase this sentence with a preposition?
You would say Flickan visar legitimationen för postombudet. Notice that with the verb visar (shows), Swedish uses the preposition för rather than till or åt to indicate who is being shown something.
What exactly is a postombud?
It translates to 'postal agent' or 'postal representative'. In Sweden, standalone post offices are rare; instead, you pick up packages at a postombud, which is usually a designated counter inside a supermarket or gas station. It is an ett-word, which is why it takes the -et ending to mean 'the' postal agent.
Is legitimationen the most common way to say 'the ID'?
En legitimation is the standard, formal word for an identification document. However, in everyday spoken Swedish, it is very commonly shortened to ett leg, meaning 'the ID' would be spoken as legget.
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