Breakdown of Frilansaren debiterar ett högt timpris.
ett
a, an (neuter)
hög
high / loudly
frilansaren
the freelancer
timpriset
the hourly rate
debitera
to charge
Questions & Answers about Frilansaren debiterar ett högt timpris.
Does debiterar mean 'to charge' in all contexts?
No, debiterar is strictly used for financial billing or invoicing. If you want to say 'charge a battery', you use laddar. For 'charge forward' or 'attack', you use anfaller. A more casual, everyday way to say 'charge money' is tar betalt, but debiterar fits perfectly for a freelancer's formal rate.
Why is the word for hourly rate timpris and not timmepris?
When the noun timme (hour) is used as the first part of a compound word, it drops its final -e. You will see this same pattern in other work-related compounds like timlön (hourly wage) and timvikarie (hourly substitute worker).
Why does the adjective take a -t ending here (högt)?
Högt modifies the compound noun timpris. Because the core word pris (price) is an ett-word (ett pris), the entire compound acts as an ett-word. Therefore, the adjective must take the neuter -t ending to match.
Could I say ett stort timpris instead of ett högt timpris?
No, in Swedish you always pair pris (price) with hög (high) or låg (low). Describing a price as stor (big) sounds unnatural to native speakers, just as 'a big price' often sounds slightly off in English.
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