{"id":5292,"date":"2012-04-14T10:58:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T10:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=5292"},"modified":"2012-04-14T10:58:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T10:58:25","slug":"future-tenses-in-swedish-ska-or-kommer-att","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/future-tenses-in-swedish-ska-or-kommer-att\/","title":{"rendered":"Future tenses in Swedish (SKA or KOMMER ATT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are three ways to express future actions in the Swedish language.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"205\">Present Simple + \u00a0 Adverb\/s of time.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"205\">SKA<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"205\">KOMMER ATT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"205\">In most languages \u00a0 you can use the Present Tense for expressing future action as well. But then \u00a0 of course you need some kind of cursor or to add something extra to make your \u00a0 sentence different from Present Tenses.Ex: I am flying. \u00a0 (right now)<\/p>\n<p>I am flying <strong>tomorrow<\/strong>. (future)<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"205\">SKA + infinitive \u00a0 form of the second verb in the sentence.<strong>Jag ska \u00e5ka till New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jag ska g\u00f6ra det i morgon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are two forms that \u00a0 are used in the Swedish language. The more common <em>SKA <\/em>(both in written and spoken language) and the less common, \u00a0 older and mainly used bureaucratical or old texts <em>SKALL<\/em>. (only in written language)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ex: <strong>Du skall inte stj\u00e4la<\/strong>. (The \u00a0 Bible)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ex: <strong>Av ans\u00f6kan skall framg\u00e5 fr\u00e5n \u00a0 vilken tidpunkt uttr\u00e4de \u00f6nskas.<\/strong> (Text of a law firm)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, one thing \u00a0 is very important; be always consequent whenever using these forms. Never mix \u00a0 the two forms when you write. <em>SKA <\/em>expresses \u00a0 your own subjective willingness i.e. what you want to do in the future. It is \u00a0 always subjective and sure.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"205\">It talks about \u00a0 something that is more objective and a bit unsure. Expressions like<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0 Vet inte<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Jag tror<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Are often followed \u00a0 by <em>KOMMER ATT<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ex: <strong>Jag vet inte om maten \u00a0 kommer att r\u00e4cka.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ex: <strong>Jag tror att det kommer \u00a0 att regna.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three ways to express future actions in the Swedish language. Present Simple + \u00a0 Adverb\/s of time. SKA KOMMER ATT In most languages \u00a0 you can use the Present Tense for expressing future action as well. But then \u00a0 of course you need some kind of cursor or to add something extra to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/future-tenses-in-swedish-ska-or-kommer-att\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[191814,2514,191815],"class_list":["post-5292","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar","tag-kommer-att","tag-ska","tag-swedish-grammer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5298,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions\/5298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}