Breakdown of Advokaten hjälper svaranden att överklaga domen.
hjälpa
to help
att
to
advokaten
the lawyer
svaranden
the defendant
överklaga
to appeal
domen
the verdict
Questions & Answers about Advokaten hjälper svaranden att överklaga domen.
If I wanted to add a sentence saying 'The latter is innocent' referring to the defendant, how would I use the formal pronouns taught in this lesson?
To say 'the latter' referring to the most recently mentioned person (the defendant), you would use denne if the defendant is male, or denna if female. For example, Denne är oskyldig. This clearly points back to svaranden and avoids confusing them with advokaten.
Is svaranden plural? The ending looks a bit like a plural definite.
It is singular definite here, meaning 'the defendant'. It comes from the present participle svarande (literally 'answering'). When words ending in -ande refer to a person, they add just an -n for the singular definite form. The plural definite would actually be svarandena.
Can I drop the att before överklaga?
In standard Swedish, no. Unlike modal verbs (such as kan or vill) which take a bare infinitive, the verb hjälpa requires the infinitive marker att before the next verb. It is structured just like 'help the defendant to appeal' in English.
Is överklaga related to the verb klaga (to complain)?
Yes, exactly! Klaga means 'to complain'. Adding the prefix över- (over) turns it into överklaga, which is the specific legal term for 'to appeal'. You are essentially taking your complaint 'over' the current decision to a higher court.
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