Question 1

Why does the sentence use vore instead of skulle vara?

Accepted Answer

Vore is a special subjunctive form of vara (to be) that means "would be". While you can perfectly well say skulle vara, vore is highly common in both spoken and written Swedish for expressing hypothetical situations. It is one of the few surviving subjunctive forms in the modern language.

Question 2

Since this lesson is about dropping the infinitive marker att, why do we keep it in att se?

Accepted Answer

We only drop att after modal verbs and semi-modals like verka and tyckas. In this sentence, the phrase att se en mer abstrakt stil is the actual subject of the sentence (think of it as "To see a more abstract style would be interesting"). When an infinitive phrase acts as a subject or follows an adjective like intressant, you must keep the att.

Question 3

Why is the comparative formed with mer abstrakt instead of adding an ending like abstraktare?

Accepted Answer

While most Swedish adjectives add -are for the comparative, longer loanwords and adjectives ending in certain consonant clusters (like the -kt in abstrakt) usually use mer and mest. This simply prevents them from becoming too clunky to pronounce.

Question 4

Why does intressant have the neuter -t ending when en stil is a common gender word?

Accepted Answer

The adjective intressant is not describing the style; it is describing the entire action (att se...). Infinitive phrases are always treated as neuter in Swedish, which is why we use the placeholder Det and add the neuter -t to the adjective. By contrast, abstrakt does not get a -t because it directly describes en stil.

Det vore intressant att se en mer abstrakt stil.

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