Breakdown of Innehåller måltiden kolhydrater eller bara protein?
eller
or
bara
only, just
innehålla
to contain
måltiden
the meal
proteinet
the protein
kolhydraten
the carbohydrate
Questions & Answers about Innehåller måltiden kolhydrater eller bara protein?
Why is the verb written as innehåller rather than split up like a particle verb (e.g., håller inne)?
While many Swedish verbs use a separate particle (like håller med, meaning "agree"), innehålla (to contain) is a prefixed verb where the preposition is permanently attached to the front. If you split it into håller inne, it changes the meaning completely to "withholding" or "keeping [something] inside".
Why is kolhydrater plural while protein is singular here?
In Swedish, just like in English, carbohydrates are usually treated as countable units in general nutrition contexts (kolhydrater), whereas protein is generally treated as a mass or uncountable noun (protein). You would usually only use the plural proteiner if you were talking about different specific chemical types of protein.
How could we express the idea of "only protein" using this lesson's phrase bortsett från (apart from)?
To say a meal has only protein, you are essentially saying it has nothing apart from protein. You could rewrite the second half of the sentence as: ...eller ingenting bortsett från protein? (or nothing apart from protein?).
The word for meal is måltiden, but doesn't tid mean "time"?
Yes! Måltid literally translates to "meal-time" (from mål, which can mean "meal" or "goal", plus tid). However, in modern Swedish, it is the standard noun used for the food itself, meaning "a meal". The suffix -en here makes it definite: "the meal".
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