Breakdown of De diskuterar enkäten, enligt vilken personalen är fantastisk.
vara
to be
de
they
vilken
which (en) / what a (en-word, exclamatory)
fantastisk
fantastic
diskutera
to discuss
personalen
the staff
enligt
according to
enkäten
the survey
Questions & Answers about De diskuterar enkäten, enligt vilken personalen är fantastisk.
Why do we use vilken here instead of som?
In Swedish, you cannot place the relative pronoun som directly after a preposition like enligt. Instead, in formal language, we use a preposition followed by vilken, vilket, or vilka.
Why is it vilken and not vilket?
The pronoun must match the gender of the noun it refers back to. Since it refers to enkäten, which is an en-word, we use vilken. If it referred to an ett-word, you would use vilket.
English speakers often treat 'staff' as a plural. Why is fantastisk in the singular form here?
In Swedish, personal is a grammatically singular en-word, even though it describes a group of people. Because the subject personalen is singular, the adjective must match it and take the singular form fantastisk instead of the plural fantastiska.
If the survey said the staff is NOT fantastic, where would inte go in this clause?
The phrase after the comma is a subordinate clause. This means sentence adverbs like inte must be placed before the verb. You would write enligt vilken personalen inte är fantastisk.
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