"Varför gjorde du det?"

Translation: Why did you do it?

[reaperlord]

The second drop down suggestion for gjorde is "made", so I put "Why did you make that" as an answer and was marked wrong. Does the phrase here not allow the interpretation of "gjorde" as "made"?

[Berniebud]

-this comment was wrong, read other comment-

[reaperlord]

Ok, I think I get it. Tack så mycket.

[Berniebud]

Actually, now that I think about it, "Gör" can be interpreted as "Make" in questions like:

"Varför gör du bilar?"

So I should correct myself and say "Gör" is interpreted as "Do" when it's used with "Det", and means "Make" with other nouns.

Sorry for the confusion, disregard my other comment.

[freeboprich]

Duo tvinga mig att göra det...

[Ultorex]

Is there a pronounciation-concerning explanation where that j comes from?

[Zmrzlina]

No, not really. The G used to be 'hard', but was softened to a soft G sound /j/. The J was the same all along.

"Göra" used to be spelled "gjöra" sometimes before the 20th century, but apparently the J fell out of use there but was kept in the past tense.

[Ultorex]

Thank you for the answer and, generally, for the huge effort you still put into this course! ☺

[Lng52-._]

So, "det" is pronounced like "dea"?