"The church is always open."
Translation:Kyrkan är alltid öppen.
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What is the difference between Kyrkan är alltid öppen and Kyrka är öppen alltid?
To say "kyrka är öppen alltid" is ungrammatical because 1) it sounds really strange to say just "kyrka" and 2) it sounds strange too to put the adverb at the end.
"Kyrka" in singular indefinite is just not used for "church in general" the way English uses it.
This is actually what my mormor would have said ("kyrka är alltid öppen"), which means that "kyrka" used to be a feminine noun I suppose :). (She would never write like that of course.)
I thought that adverbs of time are supposed to stand at the end of a sentence?
I have the same question too since the sytax of both sentences works in English
"Öppna" is a verb:
Prästen öppnar dörren till kyrkan.
"Öppen" is an adjective:
Dörren är öppen.
Fönstret är öppet.
Dörrarna är öppna.
"Öppen" is an adjective. "Öppnar" is the present tense of the verb "Öppna", meaning "To open"
