Learn Swedish: Huset är mitt. - The house is mine.

In Swedish, possessive words like "mine" have to match the gender of the noun they refer to. Because hus is an ett word (ett hus), we use the ett form, which is mitt. If we were talking about an en word, like a car (en bil), we would say Bilen är min.

Does mitt translate to both "my" and "mine"?

Yes! Unlike English, which changes the word depending on whether it sits next to the noun ("my house") or stands alone ("the house is mine"), Swedish uses the exact same word for both. You say mitt hus for "my house" and Huset är mitt for "the house is mine".

How would this sentence change if I wanted to say "The houses are mine"?

You would need to change both the noun and the possessive pronoun to their plural forms. "The houses" is husen, and the plural form of "mine" is mina. So, the sentence would become Husen är mina.

Why is the word for "the house" written as huset?

As a quick refresher from earlier lessons, Swedish usually attaches the definite article ("the") to the end of the noun as a suffix, rather than using a separate word in front of it. Since hus is an ett word, you add -et to the end to make it huset.