"Sjunger han på tisdagar?"
Translation:Does he sing on Tuesdays?
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That's a statement, with a question mark and shifted spoken emphasis to make it into a question.
Swedish can do the same trick, but it did not do so here so you shouldn't do it in the translation.
The equivalent word-order for that would instead be: Han sjunger på tisdagar?
That's because putting the verb in the second position makes it a statement which gets forced into a question by the punctuation.
So there isn't a direct word for "does" but we assume it because the verb leads the pronoun?
That's right. In statements verb always comes second. When it's a first word, that means it's a question.
Try to aspirate H with ur upper thorat, back of ur mouth, and then try to say it in a deep voice, and form ur mouth into a circle. And then add a little bit of the sh sound, but very slight and soft, like the k in kött. Or the ch in the German ich.
At this moment it's time to learn prepositions in both English and Swedish, cuz i'm not native
