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# "Den" or "det" in Swedish Tags: grammar, articles, meaning, swedish - Score: 5 - Views: 2778 - Answers: 3 - Answered: yes - Asked by: Niklas Rosencrantz (245 rep) - Asked: 2018-05-07 - Site: linguistics ## Question I am native Swedish speaker and I have a problem that the language seems to have no grammar in some cases. For instance there is both "en lag" and "ett lag" meaning completely different things but the word "lag" is the same sound and same spelling, but the difference is in the meaning of the word. So you can't know from just the word "lag" whether it is "ett lag" or "en lag". It seems completely arbitrary whether you should say "en lag" or "ett lag" but the meanings are different. It seems like there is no logic there or at least something I never saw in other languages i.e. the meaning of the word determines the case. It is the same difference in English in "an" or "a" and there it is the sound of the word which determines the case. In all other cases besides Swedish, you can know from the word itself what the gender or case should be e.g. English has "a" or "an", German has "der", "die", "das" with very distinct clear rules so that you know, given a word, h

Swedish grammar Swedish grammar is either the study of the grammar of the Swedish language, or the grammatical system itself of the Swedish language. Swedish is descended from Old Norse. Compared to its progenitor, Swedish grammar is much less characterized by inflection. Modern Swedish has two genders and no longer conjugates verbs based on person or number. Its nouns have lost the morphological distinction between nominative and accusative cases that denoted grammatical subject and object in Old Norse in favor of marking by word order. Swedish uses some inflection with nouns, adjectives, and verbs. It is generally a subject–verb–object(SVO) language with V2 word order. ## Nouns Nouns have one of two grammatical genders: common(utrum) and neuter(neutrum), which determine their definite forms as well as the form of any adjectives and articles used to describe them. Noun gender is largely arbitrary and must be memorized; however, around three quarters of all Swedish nouns are common gender. Living beings are often common nouns, like in en katt"a cat", en häst"a horse", en fluga"a fly", etc (see also Gender in Danish and Swedish). Swedish once had three genders— masculine, femini