Word
Jonglören var oförberedd och framträdandet var bedrövligt.
Meaning
The juggler was unprepared and the performance was appalling.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Jonglören var oförberedd och framträdandet var bedrövligt.
vara
to be
och
and
jonglören
the juggler
oförberedd
unprepared
Questions & Answers about Jonglören var oförberedd och framträdandet var bedrövligt.
If I wanted to change the first clause to say "Not even the juggler was prepared", where would inte ens go?
You would place inte ens directly before the noun it modifies, making it: Inte ens jonglören var förberedd. Note that because the whole phrase inte ens jonglören acts as the subject, it counts as the first block of information. This means the verb var still stays in the correct second position, perfectly following the V2 rule.
Why does bedrövligt end in -t while oförberedd does not?
Both words are adjectives acting as subject complements, so they must agree with the gender of the nouns they describe. Jonglören is an en-word, so oförberedd stays in its base form. However, framträdandet is an ett-word, so the adjective bedrövlig (appalling/dismal) takes the neuter -t ending to become bedrövligt.
Framträdandet looks like a verb form. How does it work as a noun here?
It originates from the verb att framträda (to perform/appear). Its present participle is framträdande (performing). In Swedish, you can often turn a present participle into an ett-word noun to describe the act or result of doing that verb. By adding the neuter definite suffix -t, it becomes framträdandet (the performance).
How is the word constructed?