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"What makes them efficient?"
Translation:Vad gör dem effektiva?
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840
"Vad gör dem effektivA?" Why not "effektivT"? Must this adjective correspond with "dem" and not with "vad"? Is "What makes him efficient?" "Vad gör honom effektiv?" ?
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It's the object form of the pronoun de here, the subject being what. To have de would be like saying What makes they perfect in English – except of course in Swedish those two words are pronounced the same way, so many native speakers mix them up.
Alternatively, if de were to be an article, you'd get a grammatically correct sentence meaning What are the efficient doing? (this would never be anyone's first interpretation of this sentence though)
840
I asked a similar question a year ago. effektiva is an adjective and corresponds with dem.
840
de is "they", the subject form. They see me, de ser mig.
dem is "them", the object form. I see them, jag ser dem.