{"id":159,"date":"2009-02-10T18:57:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T22:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=159"},"modified":"2009-02-10T18:57:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T22:57:34","slug":"if-om-adverbial-clauses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/if-om-adverbial-clauses\/","title":{"rendered":"If &#8211; om, Adverbial Clauses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of posts back Mo asked how to say stuff like &#8220;if you are&#8230;.I am &#8230;.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd since she asked, I thought it would be a good idea to talk today about adverbial clauses (<strong>adverbialsbisatser<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>What is an adverbial clause? It\u2019s when an entire subordinate clause sentence can act as an adverbial. Uh-huh, I hear you say. We\u2019re moving into a heavy-duty grammar territory.<\/p>\n<p>Not really. You use subordinate clauses every day in your normal conversations, you\u2019ve just probably never realized that they have a fancy grammatical name.<\/p>\n<p>Those subordinate clauses that are also adverbial clauses can be recognized by those typical opening words (<strong>bisatsord<\/strong>), such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>n\u00e4r<\/strong> \u2013 when<\/li>\n<li><strong>innan<\/strong> \u2013 before<\/li>\n<li><strong>medan<\/strong> \u2013 while<\/li>\n<li><strong>d\u00e4rf\u00f6r att<\/strong> \u2013 because<\/li>\n<li><strong>om<\/strong> \u2013 if<\/li>\n<li><strong>trots att<\/strong> \u2013 although<\/li>\n<li><strong>eftersom<\/strong> \u2013 since, as<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mo had a question regarding a sentence construction with \u201cif.\u201d<br \/>\nSo, let\u2019s pick \u201cif\u201d from our list and see what happens.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Om<\/strong> \u2013 if<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Jag blir arg om han kommer hit.<\/strong> \u2013 I get angry if he comes here.<\/p>\n<p>See? Not so difficult.<br \/>\nIt works just like in English.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let\u2019s take this example apart.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jag<\/strong> \u2013 subject<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blir<\/strong> \u2013 verb<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arg<\/strong> &#8211; adjective<\/li>\n<li><strong>Om han kommer hit<\/strong> \u2013 adverbial<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In English, you can flip the order without any problems, you can say either:<br \/>\nI get mad if he comes here.<br \/>\nOr<br \/>\nIf he comes here I get mad.<\/p>\n<p>Either way is fine.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s a tiny bit more complicated in Swedish.<br \/>\nRemember what we said about the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/thanksgiving-and-word-order\/\" target=\"_blank\">word order in sentences<\/a>? That you can front an adverbial? And that the verb always comes second in a sentence?<\/p>\n<p>So now, instead of a one-word adverbial, we have a whole sentence that\u2019s an adverbial:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Om han kommer hit<\/strong> (if he comes here)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then must come the verb: <strong>blir<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThen the subject: <strong>jag<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd finally, the adjective: <strong>arg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So what do we get if we put it all together? This:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Om han kommer hit, blir jag arg.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, remember: those pesky little <strong>bisatsord<\/strong> like <strong>om<\/strong> must be followed by a subject of the clause. (example: <strong>om HAN kommer hit<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>han<\/strong> is the subject of this adverbial clause.)<\/p>\n<p>If those pesky little <strong>bisatsord<\/strong> open a sentence, then you know that sentence is a long, huge adverbial clause that must be followed by a verb. (example: <strong>Om han kommer hit, BLIR jag arg.<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>blir<\/strong> is the verb in the main sentence.)<\/p>\n<p>If those pesky little words sit inside, or rather, between sentences, it\u2019s easy peasy, nothing changes. (example: <strong>Jag blir arg, OM han kommer hit.<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Well, nothing changes as long as you don\u2019t have a not\/<strong>inte<\/strong> in that sentence. But we\u2019ll talk about that next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of posts back Mo asked how to say stuff like &#8220;if you are&#8230;.I am &#8230;.&#8221; And since she asked, I thought it would be a good idea to talk today about adverbial clauses (adverbialsbisatser). What is an adverbial clause? It\u2019s when an entire subordinate clause sentence can act as an adverbial. 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