"Det regnar aldrig."
Translation:It never rains.
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"...but it pours!" Stockholm's archipelago, a home-from-home for an Englishman!
can someone say something about the etymology of 'aldrig'? I'd love to have a mnemonic that isn't "the opposite of English ALways and Dutch ALtijd" :-)
Is this emphasising "rain?" If you wanted to emphasise "never," would you write "det aldrig regnar?"
That's a possible word order, but it's pretty rare. We'd usually just use stress for emphasis.
The verb must go in second place in the sentence, so that doesn't work. The word order here is neutral.
You've visited Borås? Anyway, we have this rule called the V2 which demands that the verb must go in second place in most sentences (in main clauses that are not questions). So it must be Det regnar alltid i Sverige.
All I know of Borås, is that it was birthplace of 1950s Swedish tennis star Sven Davidson. He reminded me of this often when he lived in the U.S.
It's cool that you've even heard of the place at all. It's a town (wikipedia calls it 'city', but I think that's a bit too generous) in Western Sweden that has the reputation of being the rainiest place in Sweden. It has also been voted 'most boring town/city' :D
