Breakdown of Det fantastiska gillet är engagerade och nästan oslagbara i det här spelet.
vara
to be
och
and
spelet
the game
i
in
det
the (with ett-words)
det här
this (ett)
fantastisk
fantastic
nästan
almost
gillet
the guild
engagerad
engaged
oslagbar
unbeatable
Questions & Answers about Det fantastiska gillet är engagerade och nästan oslagbara i det här spelet.
Why are the adjectives engagerade and oslagbara in the plural form when gillet is singular?
This is the core of semantic agreement. Even though gillet (the guild) is grammatically a singular neuter noun, it describes a group of people. In Swedish, when the focus is on the members acting as individuals, predicative adjectives (those coming after the verb) take the plural form.
If the guild is treated as plural after the verb, why is it Det fantastiska gillet at the start of the sentence instead of a plural form?
Semantic agreement only applies to words that refer back to the noun later in the sentence. The words directly attached to the noun before it (articles and attributive adjectives) must always strictly match its grammatical form. Therefore, we use the singular neuter definite forms Det and gillet, with the definite adjective form fantastiska.
Why does the plural of engagerad become engagerade while oslagbar becomes oslagbara?
Both words are plural to match the members of the guild, but they follow different patterns. Engagerad is a past participle ending in -ad, and these adjectives always change to -ade in the plural. Oslagbar is a regular adjective, which simply adds an -a to become oslagbara.
A quick refresher: why do we say det här spelet and not det här spel?
When using the demonstrative pronouns den här or det här (meaning this), Swedish requires the following noun to be in its definite form. Since spel is an ett-word, it takes the definite ending -et, resulting in det här spelet.
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