"We used to meet and cook together."

Translation: Vi brukade träffas och laga mat tillsammans.

[countvlad]

why 'träffas' instead of just 'träffa'?

[KeesKiwi]

One of the ways that swedish uses the -s ending on a verb is to show that it is a reciprocal interaction, or one where both parties are performing it on each other.

So, as an example, Jag kramar dig, "I hug you", has a single subject interacting on a single object. If we were to both hug each other though, it'd be Vi kramas. But if we were both hugging a dog, it'd be Vi kramar hunden because we're no longer doing it to one another.

[countvlad]

thanks ... so it's more complicated...

[GeorgeFerguson93]

One cannot say 'vi brukade att möta och laga mat tillsammans'?

[Lundgren8]

No, perhaps ”mötas”, but then it sounds like you really regularly schedule when you cook together, as if they are meetings. The ’-s’ means ’one another, each other’

[GeorgeFerguson93]

Hmm I guess I will learn over time :p tack för din förklaring

[Arnauti]

… and brukade does not take an att after it.

[exqeriment]

This is sort of relevant, sort of not, but what does trevligt att traffas mean?

[Arnauti]

'Nice to meet you'

[caresrg]

So as long as it's "to each other," träffas-with-an-s serves as an infinitive?

[samira22401]

Why mötas not möta

[James704885]

Does mata mean feed?