"What did the boss say at the meeting last Friday?"
Translation:Vad sa chefen på mötet i fredags?
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When talking about a weekday that was in the past, we usually use "i [weekday]s". I have no idea why it's like that - I'm guessing it's just idiomatic. So it's jag sov i tisdags, du åt en fisk i torsdags, etc.
As arbitrary as that is, I really don't think a native English speaker is allowed to even enter a debate on logic in language... :p
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Hmm.. du är kanske rätt. But I do think that Swedish is likely more difficult to learn for an English speaker than the other way around. When doing longer translations, Swedish definitely uses more words and grammar rules than English.
It's hard to say. Swedish might possible have more rules, but English has lots more exceptions, which many find harder to learn. Swedish has two genders, and English has highly irregular spelling - and so on. They're very different for being so similar. :)
(By the way, on the topic of illogical exceptions... people "have" right in Swedish: du har kanske rätt.)
Ah, sorry, the i [time]s construction is only for the previous of something.
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Det finns en liknande konstruktion på tyska. De används när man berättar om den senaste "fredagen" eller när man gör något regelbundet den dagen. Examples: Freitags war ich in Stockholm = I fredags var jag i Stockholm. Freitags esse ich meistens Fisch. =Jag brukar äta fisk på fredagar
With this logic, could you say: What did the boss say at Friday's meeting? (Vad sa chefen på fredags möte?)
No, we don't use weekday's like that at all. You could use the definite instead: Vad sade chefen på fredagens möte? but it's only grammatical, not idiomatic. We don't even except it.
