Breakdown of Han förlorar hela förmögenheten efter skilsmässan.
han
he
efter
after
hel
whole
förlora
to lose
skilsmässan
the divorce
förmögenheten
the fortune
Questions & Answers about Han förlorar hela förmögenheten efter skilsmässan.
Why does the English translation say "will lose" when förlorar is in the present tense?
In Swedish, you can often use the present tense to talk about the future as long as the context makes it clear. Here, efter skilsmässan implies an event that is going to happen, so förlorar translates naturally to "will lose".
Since this lesson is about lär, how would adding it change this sentence?
If you say Han lär förlora hela förmögenheten, you change the tone from a stated fact to a strong probability or hearsay, meaning "He is likely to lose" or "I hear he will lose". Notice that förlorar must drop its present tense ending and become the infinitive förlora after the modal verb lär.
Why does förmögenhet have the definite ending -en after hela?
The word hela, meaning "the whole" or "the entire", is almost always followed by a noun in its definite form. You literally say "whole the fortune", which is hela förmögenheten.
What makes up the word skilsmässan?
It is the definite form of skilsmässa, meaning divorce. This is a compound word built from the root of skilja, meaning to separate, and mässa, meaning mass or gathering, joined by a linking s in the middle. The final -n makes it "the divorce".
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