"Sverige kommer på andra plats."

Translation: Sweden comes in second place.

[dfpeterson]

Men först i mitt hjärta!

[4o8J4WPj]

...efter Finland ;-)

[Chris-Butler]

Is this the present tense? Does it mean "Sweden is currently in 2nd place" or is it past tense meaning "Sweden finished in 2nd place"?

[dfpeterson]

It's present tense, but it's more like either the race is still going on but finishing up and announcing it as Sweden crosses the finish line 2nd.

[Chris-Butler]

Okay thanks for the speedy response! So would "Sweden is (currently) in 2nd place" simply be "Sverige är i andra plats"?

[Aquignis]

Why isn't it på annan plats or på den andra platsen instead?

[Trilby16]

Andra is second?

[svenskaholic]

If only I had started Duolingo 4 years ago, I would have made a fortune by betting on Women's World Cup! /.\

[JYH6UtXB]

Right!? I was exactly thinking of their victory over Brasil... in Brasil (what an achievement!). But at the Olympics, not the World Cup. I have high hopes they'll do better at the next Olympics. Bronze in the 2019 World Cup wasn't too shabby, either. Inte andra men ändå bra!

[kriszcseri]

Så är det om du tittar på längdåkning :)

[Trilby16]

At least I'm getting better now at understanding the Swedish accent, because without context some of these sentences are konstig.

[LucasScooter]

Det här är ett lustigt skämt! Sverige är alltid först. ;)

[BettyJJ]

Why not "andra platsen"?

[JYH6UtXB]

I just finished Julien Bourrelle's "The Social Guidebook to Sweden" where he discusses "Equality" wherein he states "There is a shared understanding that the strong shall help the weak so that all stand equal at the end" and has a picture of a 1st, 2nd, 3rd place podium with everyone standing on the 2nd place step, lol!