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Passagerarnas incheckning och säkerhetskontrollen fungerade perfekt.

Passagerarnas incheckning och säkerhetskontrollen fungerade perfekt.
The passengers' check-in and the security check worked perfectly.
From Lesson 344:Turning clauses into noun phrases (tågets försening)·Swedish

Questions & Answers about Passagerarnas incheckning och säkerhetskontrollen fungerade perfekt.

How is the phrase Passagerarnas incheckning an example of nominalization?
It transforms a full clause, such as att passagerarna checkade in (that the passengers checked in), into a single noun phrase. The subject passagerarna gets a genitive -s, and the phrasal verb checka in is turned into the verbal noun incheckning.
Why is it incheckning without a definite suffix, when the English translation says 'the check-in'?
In Swedish, a noun that directly follows a genitive modifier like passagerarnas must always be in its indefinite form. The genitive word already makes the phrase specific, so adding a definite ending like incheckningen would be grammatically incorrect.
If the genitive rule applies to the first noun, why does säkerhetskontrollen have the definite suffix -en?
The genitive passagerarnas only modifies incheckning. The sentence joins two separate subjects: [Passagerarnas incheckning] and [säkerhetskontrollen]. Since säkerhetskontroll stands alone and is not 'owned' by the passengers in this sentence structure, it needs the regular definite suffix to mean 'the security check'.
Why is there an -s- in the middle of säkerhetskontrollen?
It is a compound word made of säkerhet (security) and kontroll (check). When the first word in a compound ends in certain suffixes like -het, Swedish typically inserts a connecting -s- to link the words together smoothly.
Why doesn't the word perfekt get an extra -t since it's acting as an adverb here?
To turn an adjective into an adverb, you normally add a -t to the neuter form. However, because the adjective perfekt already ends in a -t, Swedish doesn't add a second one. The spelling stays exactly the same whether it is an adjective or an adverb.

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