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- "Efter resan vilade vi."
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This happens so often I am wondering whether ‘vi’ is actually pronounced that way sometimes?
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I used "relaxed" instead of rested, thinking they were interchangeable.
Is it strictly koppla av = relax and vila = rest?
Not according to WordReference: http://www.wordreference.com/definition/travel. It is used more as an uncountable noun though, so I agree that here "trip" is more to the point. But not because "travel" is never a noun.
I've read through the comments, but one thing I'm curious about, given the v2 rule, is how to turn this into a question? Mind you, this would be a hard sentence to properly place, "We rested after the trip?" but it could be that the speaker forgot, or maybe is being sarcastic. :P In any case, would it just be "Vilade vi efter resan?"
1053
Yes, it would be Vilade vi efter resan?
Verb first, subject second.
Here's a link to my post about word order: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/8970470
(questions are under #2)
2264
No, they're not. I go on trips all the time without being on vacation.
2264
I was thinking of maybe going for a trip to the countryside some evening next week, for instance. In addition, there are road trips, business trips, all kinds of trips really.
That sentence actually doesn't make any sense. To translate it literally, word by word: We the journey after rested. The pronouns should always be acompanied by the coresponding verb: Vi vilade or vilade vi, depending on the sentence strucutre. Also, efter (after) should come before resan, simply because it's supposed to be after the journey = efter resan. So this leaves onyl a few possible translations: 1. Efter resan vilade vi. 2. Vi vilade efter resan. I can't think of any other version that makes sense to me, but then again I'm no Swedish native speaker and all my sense for what is correct and what not comes from German.
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It is quite difficult for me to catch in which types of statements we put the werb before the noun/pronoun, just like in questions, and in wich ones we put the werb after the subject.
Generally speaking, when you follow the English word order (subject, verb, object) then the pronouns comes always right before the verb (vi vilade efter resan, vi åt bröd, du åker till skolan...). There are some cases in which you'd rather put the subject at the end of the sentence (or at least after time-specifiers), just out of aesthetic reasons. In these cases, the pronouns needs to go after the subject: Efter resan villade vi, I går åkte vi till marknaden. Hope this helps a bit! Also, I'd be vergy grateful for any native speaker to confirm I'm not writing rubbish :)
1053
You're not wrong, but I'd put it like this:
In Swedish, the important thing is that in main clauses (that are not questions), the verb must go second. So if you choose to put an adverb like efter resan first, you have no choice but to put the verb right after that.
So it's either Efter resan vilade vi or Vi vilade efter resan
The verb doesn't move.
I wrote a much longer post about word order here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/8970470
1514
Thank you so much! I have been skratching my head over this problem since I started studying Swedish.
1053
Because the verb must go second in the sentence. 'efter resan' is a time adverbial which takes up the first place, the verb must go right after that.
2264
Normally, this construction would be perfectly sound, and it's indeed a literally correct translation.
However, I would say there is a difference in idiomatics here. The phrases correspond like this:
- We were resting after the trip = Vi vilade efter resan
- After the trip, we rested = Efter resan vilade vi