"På fredag äter vi kyckling."
Translation:On Friday we are eating chicken.
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what exactly is the verb second rule? does that mean verb always comes second no matter what kind of sentence it is????
It means that if you have a typical declarative sentence (not a question), it can look like this, the finite verb in bold:
- Jag vill gärna åka till Paris. (I gladly want to go to Paris.)
We have a subject (jag), an adverb (gärna), a place (till Paris) etc. Now we can move around these parts as we like to create different emphasis and focus, but the V2-rule means that the ”vill” has to stay where it is.
- Till Paris vill jag gärna åka.
- Gärna vill jag åka till Paris.
- Åka till Paris vill jag gärna. ([Åka till Paris] is the entire first element here)
It’s different in questions obviously:
- Vill jag åka till Paris?
And in subordinate clauses the adverb moves to before the verb.
- Han är ledsen, eftersom jag inte vill åka till Paris. (He is sad, because I don’t want to go to Paris.
It is not correct, take a look at the explanation above. They talk about the V2 rule that says the verb must be placed, if it is not a question, always in the second position. In your phrase you have På onsdag (which is the first unit), therefore the verb must come after it. Your phrase will be (I think): på onsdag har vi på rosa.
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In English we would never say this because it is a repetitive action 'we eat' so it would only be 'we are eating' 'on Friday ',ie.one specific event
På fredagar tycker jag om kyckling / Jag tycker om kyckling på fredagar
På fredagar har jag rosa på mig / Jag har rosa på mig på fredagar
På fredagar tycker jag om att ha rosa på mig / Jag tycker om att ha rosa på mig på fredagar
It is possible to swap "rosa på mig" to "på mig rosa" in all examples.
In all main clauses that are not questions, the verb needs to be in second place. You can put either the subject or an adverbial first, that doesn't matter, but the verb must be second. More about word order here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/8970470
In older Swedish this sentence would actually be correct. This is from a time when verbs had different forms depending on plurals or singulars.
"På onsdagar bär jag rosa." - On Wednesdays, I wear pink. "På onsdagar bära vi rosa." - On Wednesdays, we wear pink.
Though in today's Swedish, the verbs have the same inflection regardless of singular or plural.
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I don't understand the verb second (V2) rule. In one of the lessons it said that a statement could be made into a question by switching the noun and the verb. So Vi äter (we are eating) becomes Äter vi (are we eating).