"Smörgåsen är min."

Translation: The sandwich is mine.

[abdulrahma444077]

Mitt is used for words that go with "ett" e.g ett glas , while min is used for words that go with "en" e.g en fågel

[amsyarzero]

tack så mycket!

[shahzaibbu]

plz some one tell me the difrence between mitt and min

[Warnerau]

Min is for 'en' words (en fisk) and mitt is for 'ett' words (ett äpple)

[olleoskifelle]

What about mina? Like mina barn

[Kerstin482199]

Mina is for plurals. "Barn" can be singular AND plural. So, mitt barn is "my child", and mina barn is "my children". As the smörgås is singular, it is min. En smörgås.
I just realized that there are already a lot of answers to the same question here. Reading before asking or answering helps! ;-)

[LadySeabrooke]

An important phrase to know in any country and language, on par with "Where is the bathroom?" "This is a pen" and "My hovercraft is full of eels."

[fraumueller]

Imagine this sentence as a start for an epic war. XD

[JellyMarck]

So "Min" means both "My" and "mine" ?

[devalanteriel]

Yes, that's correct.

[AdamzGray]

Oooh, so we need to tell the difference based on context? Cool!

[KatarinaSa10]

What is the difference between My and mine

[devalanteriel]

They're both possessive - but "my" is an adjective which is used to describe nouns, while "mine" is a pronoun.

So you get "it is my sandwich" because "my" describes that the sandwich belongs to you. But you can't say "it is my", because you need a noun with it.

You also get "it is mine", but you can't say "it is mine sandwich", because the "mine" describes "it" and not a noun that follows. Hence, "the sandwich is mine" really means "the sandwich belongs to me", while "it is my sandwich" means "it is the sandwich which belongs to me".

[DVLoder]

My is posessive before the subject in the sentance and mine is used after the subject.

"It is my book".
"The book is mine".

Thats about it.

[deactivated user]

So do 'min' and 'mitt' both translate as 'my/mine'? Is that the same for 'mina' too? 'Smörgåsarna är mina'?

[skalpadda]

Yep. "Mina smörgåsar" - "My sandwiches", "Smörgåsarna är mina" - "The sandwiches are mine".

[deactivated user]

Aha, tack!

[AhmedAmine448576]

The sandwich is mine! Mine at last! Mwahahahaha!
The phrasing has dramatic and forceful connotations in English. Is this also true for the phrase in Swedish?

[devalanteriel]

No, not in the slightest, not as written.

[Fuall3raTV]

Why is "my sandwich" wrong in this case?

[Arnauti]

How do you mean, My sandwich is mine or The sandwich is my sandwich?

[TanyaMarch3]

Why "Smörgåsen är mina" is wrong?
Do we use mina with plurals?

[devalanteriel]

mina is the plural form, and smörgåsen is in the definite singular.

[TanyaMarch3]

tack så mycket

[Kerstin482199]

I wrote "It is my sandwich", that was considered wrong. Hmm.

[devalanteriel]

Well, it's a different sentence construction.

[awart1881]

What's the difference between "smörgås" and "macka"? To my very limited knowledge they both mean "sandwich"

[skalpadda]

They mean the same thing, macka just sounds a bit more colloquial.