Breakdown of Jag tycker att det är bra att pausa, stänga flödet och sova.
jag
I
vara
to be
det
it (neuter)
och
and
bra
good / well
sova
to sleep
stänga
to close
att
that
tycka
to think (have an opinion)
pausa
to pause
flödet
the feed
Questions & Answers about Jag tycker att det är bra att pausa, stänga flödet och sova.
Why is there only one att used for the three verbs pausa, stänga, and sova?
When you have a list of verbs in their infinitive form connected by commas and och (and), you usually only put the infinitive marker att (to) before the very first verb. The att is syntactically dropped for stänga and sova, which is exactly how it usually works in English too ("to pause, close, and sleep").
There are two atts in this sentence. Do they serve the same grammatical purpose?
No, they have completely different roles. The first att is a subordinating conjunction meaning "that" (Jag tycker att... / I think that...). The second att is the infinitive marker meaning "to" (...att pausa / ...to pause).
What does the word flödet mean in this specific context?
Flödet literally translates to "the flow," but in modern everyday Swedish, it is the standard word for a social media "feed." It is the definite form of the neuter noun ett flöde.
Why do we use det in det är bra instead of den?
Here, det acts as a placeholder or "dummy subject" that points forward to the rest of the sentence. Because it does not refer back to a specific en-word, but rather to the entire abstract concept of pausing, closing the feed, and sleeping, Swedish defaults to the neuter pronoun det.
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