"Vart går farfar?"
Translation:Where is grandfather going?
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Vart implies direction, whereas var implies place.
Vart går farfar? = Where to is grandpa going?
Var är hatten? = Where's the hat?
In spoken or informal contexts they're often mixed though, so you might well hear one mean the other and vice versa. However, you should get to know the difference as it might come in handy.
I got lost about family names, so I found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fspzcZjtNc
It explains the differences between farmor/mormor, farfar/morfar etc.
I think there should be an explanation about this particularity of the Swedish language. I was told that Hungarian also distinguishes 4 forms of saying 'brother/sister', that's a lit bit unusual for us Western people.
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I put "Where is your grandfather going?" and it said that it was referring to the speaker's grandfather, rather than the person they are speaking to. How do we know whose grandfather is being referred to? Is it just the context of the situation?
I think you're thinking of gör.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/g%C3%B6ra#Swedish
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/g%C3%A5#Swedish
I know Zmrzlina wasn't a contributor at the time he wrote that answer, and the sentence hasn't been edited in 6+ years, so most likely no active contributor ever saw the question. I see I started writing in it about a year ago, but I don't generally scroll through an entire thread unless I have the time for it.
Anyway, I've added the translation now, plus a couple of others.