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- "The horse is black."
"The horse is black."
Translation:Hästen är svart.
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There are two dimensions to Swedish adjectives. They change for number and gender, but it also matters whether the adjective is attributive (goes before the noun) or predicative (goes after the noun and after a verb).
For attributive adjectives, it's like this (I'll make it about yellow horses and houses since svart is slightly irregular):
en gul häst
ett gult hus
den gula hästen
det gula huset
gula hästar
gula hus
de gula hästarna
de gula husen
For adjectives in the predicative position, it's like this:
en häst är gul
ett hus är gult
hästen är gul
huset är gult
hästar är gula
hus är gula
hästarna är gula
husen är gula
So the forms are the same except for the ones I put in bold, which is the same case we have here. We say hästen är svart, but then we'll talk about it as den svarta hästen.
It is almost the same as dutch except for the last 2. But tack så mycket!
Thank you very much, Arnauti!
I note that you help us several times.
This is good for all learners as me.
Congratulations my unknown friend!
I'm kind of confused by your question, but I'll try to answer. In Swedish, adjectives change forms for number (plural/singular), gender (en/ett), and definite/indefinite. Here are the forms (also called declensions) of svart: en svart hund (a black dog), ett svart hus (a black house), svarta hundar (black dogs), den svarta hunden (the black dog), de svarta blommorna (the black flowers). So, svarta is the plural/definite form of svart.
well .. thanks i appreciate your answer ,,i confused because i didn't take any thing about adjective yet ,,now i am in colors session i have one more question when we use DEN,DE as ""THE""??!!
It told me svarta is wrong, so this time I used svart, it is also wrong. Hjalp, tack.
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I wrote an explanation in answer to the top comment on this page, scroll up to read it, hope it helps!
