"Vart går farfar?"

Translation: Where is grandfather going?

[Allison23215]

Translated as "where goes grandfather" which I admit sounds awkward, but should be accepted.

[rebeccadeans]

Should "To where does granddad go?" be accepted?

[kalcy]

is there a reason we are using vart, instead of var here?

[Zmrzlina]

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.

[allenfrang]

This is why I think "To where is grandpa going?" should be accepted as an answer.

[kalcy]

ahh, good to know

[JYH6UtXB]

Yah, I was confused by that, too, since farfar is an -en word.

[tcazarim]

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.

[GrandApple]

Unusual to us western people? Hungary is technically in the west... Or at least the eastern part of the west...

[bn94]

Han klev ut genom fönstret och försvann

[Jan-Olav]

Your answer would be 'VAR går farfar', ie. he is walking around in a place. VART implies walking in a direction, whereto.

[jhmelman]

"my father's father" was considered wrong...

[itsturt]

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?

[Kalzani]

'Var' eller 'vart'? What's the difference?

[MarcinM85]

Uttalas "vart" med en kort eller lång vokal?

[Zmrzlina]

Either works. It might vary between different speakers.

[RRalys]

Just out of curiosity. Why the "Where is paternal grandfather going?" phrase is not accepted?

[Himmel.]

Gar also means to do or make. Right?

[NathanHill16]

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

[KDT558999]

I really heard "vad gör farfar", which i think is gramatically correct. The lady really didn't pronounce the går very clearly

[devalanteriel]

That's grammatical, but it means "What is grandpa doing?"

[damo530797]

Why is Var used in 'Var går farfar' and a previous sentence Vart is used in 'Vart är morfars bruna skjorta?
Tack

[devalanteriel]

Other way around - this sentence uses Vart går farfar? and the other one is Var är morfars bruna skjorta?

It's because var = where, and vart = where to. English can sometimes use "where" to mean "where to", but Swedish keeps them strictly separated.