Breakdown of Vi måste delegera och få texten tryckt idag.
vi
we
och
and
idag
today
måste
to have to, must
få
to get, receive
texten
the text
tryckt
printed
delegera
to delegate
Questions & Answers about Vi måste delegera och få texten tryckt idag.
How does the "få + object + past participle" structure work in this sentence?
Få texten tryckt translates exactly to "get the text printed". We use få (to get/cause) followed by the object (texten) and the past participle (tryckt) to show that we are arranging for the action to be done by someone else or a system, rather than doing it ourselves.
Why is the word tryckt used instead of tryckta?
In this causative structure, the past participle acts like an adjective describing the object. Because the object is texten (a singular en-word), the past participle must be in its singular en-word form: tryckt. If we were talking about plural texts (texterna), it would change to tryckta.
Why is få in the infinitive form rather than the present tense?
It is sharing the modal verb måste from earlier in the sentence. The conjunction och connects the two infinitive verbs delegera and få. You can think of it as a shorter way of saying "Vi måste delegera och [vi måste] få...".
Is trycka the normal word for printing from a computer?
Not usually! Trycka generally refers to professional or commercial printing, like a book, poster, or newspaper. If you just want to print a document on the office printer, you would normally use the phrasal verb skriva ut, which would make this phrase få texten utskriven.
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