Word
Tittaren gillar det som är roligt.
Meaning
The viewer likes what is funny.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Tittaren gillar det som är roligt.
vara
to be
rolig
fun
som
who / which / that (relative pronoun)
gilla
to like (everyday synonym of tycka om)
Questions & Answers about Tittaren gillar det som är roligt.
Why use det som for "what" instead of just vad?
In Swedish, when "what" means "that which" or "the thing that" in a normal statement, you typically use det som rather than vad. While vad is the question word for "what", det som acts as a free relative clause to represent an abstract thing or concept.
If I wanted to say "The viewer likes whoever is funny," how would the sentence change?
You would change det som to den som, making it Tittaren gillar den som är rolig. Notice that roligt also changes back to the basic form rolig because den refers to a person (which acts like an en word) rather than a neuter abstract thing!
Why does roligt end in a -t here?
Adjectives must agree with the noun or pronoun they describe. Because the adjective rolig (funny) is describing det in the phrase det som, it takes the neuter -t ending to become roligt.
I always mix up nouns ending in -are. Is tittaren singular or plural here?