Breakdown of Mötet är den tjugonde januari.
vara
to be
mötet
the meeting
den
the (with en-words)
januari
January
tjugonde
twentieth
Questions & Answers about Mötet är den tjugonde januari.
Why are there no words for "on" and "of" in the Swedish sentence?
When giving a date in Swedish, you don't use prepositions like "on" (på) or "of" (av). You just use den followed by the ordinal number and the month. So, "on the twentieth of January" is simply den tjugonde januari.
Why does the sentence use mötet instead of just möte?
Möte means "meeting". Because it is an ett word (ett möte), you add -t to the end to make it definite ("the meeting"). This makes it mötet.
How is the word tjugonde (twentieth) formed?
In Swedish, you create ordinal numbers for multiples of ten by adding -nde to the base number. Since twenty is tjugo, adding -nde makes it tjugonde (twentieth).
Why isn't the month januari capitalized?
Unlike in English, months, days of the week, and languages are written with lowercase letters in Swedish unless they appear at the very start of a sentence.
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