Word
Juryn godkände beslutet att bevilja honom projektet.
Meaning
The jury approved the decision to grant him the project.
Part of speech
sentence
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Breakdown of Juryn godkände beslutet att bevilja honom projektet.
att
to
honom
him
projektet
the project
godkänna
to approve
Questions & Answers about Juryn godkände beslutet att bevilja honom projektet.
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"?
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.
Why is the definite form juryn and not something like "juryen"?
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.
Could I split the verb godkände and say something like "kände god beslutet"?
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.
Why is it beslutet att bevilja rather than beslutet för att bevilja?