Breakdown of Jag hinner inte se avsnittet med den stora intrigen.
jag
I
stor
big
inte
not
se
to see
den
the (with en-words)
med
with
hinna
to have time to
intrigen
the intrigue
avsnittet
the episode
Questions & Answers about Jag hinner inte se avsnittet med den stora intrigen.
The current lesson focuses on "sådan". How would I change the end of the sentence to exclaim "such a big intrigue!"?
You would change den stora intrigen to en sådan stor intrig (or the more colloquial en sån stor intrig). Notice that with sådan, you drop the double definite structure. Instead, you use the indefinite article en, the base adjective stor, and the indefinite noun intrig.
Why is there no att before se?
The verb hinna (to have time / to make it in time) functions like an auxiliary verb here and takes a bare infinitive. Just like you say jag kan se (I can see), you say jag hinner se (I have time to see) without the infinitive marker att.
Why is it den stora intrigen and not just stora intrigen?
This is the Swedish double definite rule in action. When a noun has a definite article suffix (-en in intrigen) and is modified by an adjective (stora), you must also add the freestanding definite article (den for en-words) before the adjective.
I've seen ett avsnitt used to mean a "section" of a text. Does it mean "episode" here?
Exactly. While avsnitt literally means a section or a severed part, in the context of TV shows, series, or podcasts, it is the standard Swedish word for an episode.
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