Breakdown of Han gör den svåra kompromissen för min skull.
han
he
göra
to do, to make
svår
difficult
för
for, to
min
my (min/mitt/mina)
den
the (with en-words)
skull
sake
kompromissen
the compromise
Questions & Answers about Han gör den svåra kompromissen för min skull.
Why do we use min here instead of mig after the preposition för?
The phrase för ... skull translates to "for someone's sake." Because skull acts like a noun here, you need a possessive word (my) just like in English. So we say för min skull (for my sake), not för mig skull (for me sake).
How would I change this sentence to say he made the compromise for her sake or the team's sake?
You just replace min with the appropriate possessive word. You would say för hennes skull (for her sake) or för lagets skull (for the team's sake), adding an -s to the noun to show possession.
Why does the word for compromise have an -en at the end if the word den is already there?
This is the Swedish "double definite" rule. When you describe a specific thing using an adjective, you need three parts: the freestanding article den, the adjective with an -a ending (svåra), and the noun with its definite ending (kompromissen). You have to mark it as definite twice!
I learned that gör means "does." Why is it translated as "makes" here?
The Swedish verb gör covers both "does" and "makes" in English. While English has separate verbs for making something (like a compromise) and doing something (like homework), Swedish simply uses gör for both situations.
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