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Penicillinet och vaccinet är extremt viktiga för hälsan.
Meaning
Penicillin and the vaccine are extremely important for health.
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Breakdown of Penicillinet och vaccinet är extremt viktiga för hälsan.
vara
to be
och
and
viktig
important
för
for, to
Questions & Answers about Penicillinet och vaccinet är extremt viktiga för hälsan.
Why are Penicillinet and vaccinet in the definite form when the English translation uses "Penicillin"?
This showcases the categorical use of the definite singular. When Swedish refers to an entire class of things, a phenomenon, or an invention in a generalized way, it typically uses the definite form. English often leaves these generalized nouns indefinite.
Why is the word for health, hälsan, also in the definite form here?
Just like with classes or inventions, Swedish uses the definite form for abstract nouns when talking about them as a universal, general concept. While English just says "health", Swedish typically uses the definite form (hälsan) to refer to health in general.
Both penicillin and vaccin are neuter (ett) words. Why doesn't the adjective take the neuter form viktigt?
Even though both nouns are neuter singular, they are joined by och (and) to form a compound subject. Two singular things make a plural subject, so the adjective must take the plural ending -a, becoming viktiga.
Why does extremt end in a -t if it is modifying the plural word viktiga?