Breakdown of Har ingen av er spadern eller hjärtern?
ha
to have
er
you (plural, object)
eller
or
av
of, by / from (cause)
Questions & Answers about Har ingen av er spadern eller hjärtern?
How does the partitive construction work in the phrase ingen av er?
This construction singles out a specific amount from a defined group. It combines a quantity word (ingen, meaning none), the preposition av (of), and a definite plural group. Here, the pronoun er (you all) acts as that specific, defined group.
Since er means multiple people, why do we use the singular ingen instead of inga?
When referring to people in this partitive construction, you use the singular, common-gender ingen because it conceptually means not a single one of you. You would use inget for neuter nouns (like inget av husen) and inga only if referring to multiple items out of a plural group.
Why do the words for spades and hearts end in -n here (spadern, hjärtern)?
The base words for these card suits are spader and hjärter, which happen to naturally end in -er. They are singular en-words. To say the spade or the heart, you simply add the standard definite suffix -n to the base word.
Why does the sentence start with Har instead of a translating word for does?