"Vet du varför?"

Translation: Do you know why?

[Vandej]

Could this also mean "Why do you know?" If not, how would you say that?

[Berniebud]

You can't use "Vet du varför" to say "Why do you know?"

That would be "Varför vet du det?".

[Nemomeori]

Tack sa。mycket

[ex0mo]

I like how the circle of the å fell down g

[JoshuaMadd2]

So what exactly does vet mean and what contexts are it used in? I'm a bit confused.

[Zmrzlina]

Veta is used for knowledge and facts, känna is used for knowing people.

[J.C.M.H.]

It is like the difference between saber and conocer in Spanish.

[Zoidburger]

Or wissen and kennen in german, I think

[J.C.M.H.]

You are right, Zoidburger:

Swedish Vet du varför? =
German Weißt du warum? =
Spanish ¿Sabes por qué?

[NJtheSTQ]

Excellent! I know no German, but I had in mind the English word [ken], now out of use. However it does appear in a song in The Sound of Music, which is why I know it! Yay!!

[Berniebud]

"Vet" is the present tense of "Veta" which means "To know"

[Naina403682]

Really struggling with the questions segment. Never had so many answers wrong. Can anyone point me to the sentence construction for questions in Swedish? Pretty please?

[Exxxcutioner]

dude, same. i am having such a hard time now... swedish is not as easy as i initially had thought.

[Weird_Ed]

can someone please explain shortly how to use that new verb 'veta'? for instance, if one wants to say "I don't know" is it "Jag vet inte" ?
Thanks in advance.

[Zmrzlina]

Yes, that's right. I wrote shortly about the use of veta and känna in another comment here.

[Weird_Ed]

Tack! :)

[person222222]

and "förstar du varför" would mean, "do you understand why?" ??

[Zmrzlina]

Yes.

[Lee429453]

Is there a reason why you put "why" at the end instead of at the beginning?'So far the wh-word has always been before the verb.

[devalanteriel]

It's because "why" isn't actually used as a question word in this case - it's the object in the phrase, just like any other object.

• Do you understand politics?
• Do you understand Italian?
• Do you understand why?

[Lee429453]

Aaaaaah that's much clearer, thank you buddy!

[NJtheSTQ]

Very clarifying. Have a Lingot!

[hoyunmyoun]

Can I stress on "varför", too?

[Zmrzlina]

Yes.