Question 1

This sentence uses the active voice "bevilja honom projektet" (grant him the project). How would we use the recipient passive to say "he was granted the project"?

Accepted Answer

You would promote the indirect object honom to the subject han and use the s-passive form of the verb (beviljades). The new clause becomes han beviljades projektet. This is a very common way to handle ditransitive verbs (verbs that take two objects) in Swedish, just like in English.

Question 2

Why is the definite form juryn and not something like "juryen"?

Accepted Answer

The word jury is a loanword ending in a vowel. Swedish often adapts these by simply adding -n for the singular definite form instead of the standard -en. Other examples include tv becoming tv:n or bastu becoming bastun.

Question 3

Could I split the verb godkände and say something like "kände god beslutet"?

Accepted Answer

No, godkänna is a compound verb that cannot be separated. While some Swedish verbs have separable particles (like tycka om), verbs formed with an adjective prefix like god- (good) attached to a verb like känna (feel/know) are permanently glued together.

Question 4

Why is it beslutet att bevilja rather than beslutet för att bevilja?

Accepted Answer

Here, att bevilja acts as an infinitive phrase describing what the decision actually is (the decision to grant). You only use för att when you mean "in order to" or "for the purpose of" doing something. Since the jury didn't make a decision in order to grant him the project, but rather the decision was to grant it, för att would be incorrect here.

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