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| Mareike Senior Member Germany Joined 6225 days ago 267 posts - 323 votes  Speaks: German* Studies: English, Swedish | Message 1 of 4 31 August 2013 at 4:19pm | IP Logged |
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I did some grammar excercise Swedish adjective.
I have a problem with the following sentence Hon är ... och ... (lite ... nät) The solution is: Hon är liten och nätt. Why liten och nätt? I "match" the adjective to substantive, but where is the substantive in this sentence? And the word "nät". My dictionary say it is a noun, but it should be an adjective? What does it mean as a adjective? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5348 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 2 of 4 31 August 2013 at 5:04pm | IP Logged |
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If I’m not mistaken, (any native speaker willing to help?), I think there must be a typo in the exercise, not in the answer key.
nätt is an adjective and means “cute, pretty” whereas nät is a substantive meaning “net”. And yes, the adjective has to agree with the noun (whether a substantive or – in this case – a pronoun). The adjective “liten” is a little peculiar, as it has a totally different form in the plural: “små”. Singular predicative and indefinite form EN-words = liten ETT-words = litet Singular definitite form = lilla Plural = små Examples: EN-words: skjortan är liten. en liten skjorta den lilla skjortan ETT-words: skåpet är litet ett litet skåp det lilla skåpet PLURAL: skjortorna är små två små skjortor de små skåpen Examples from Åke Viberg et al., Essentials of Swedish Grammar, (1984, 1991) p. 96. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| anime Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6361 days ago 161 posts - 207 votes Speaks: Spanish, Swedish*, English Studies: German, Portuguese, French, Russian | Message 3 of 4 31 August 2013 at 5:15pm | IP Logged |
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nätt is an adjective meaning something like neat, tidy, slender, like a girl who's small and thin.
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| Mareike Senior Member Germany Joined 6225 days ago 267 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German* Studies: English, Swedish | Message 4 of 4 01 September 2013 at 9:49pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for help.
Emme your explanation about the typo makes sense. And nobody complain about... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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