{"id":66,"date":"2008-08-29T17:23:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T21:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=66"},"modified":"2008-08-29T17:23:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T21:23:39","slug":"partikelverb-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/partikelverb-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Partikelverb Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adrienne asked a question about partikelverb<\/strong>, and because I\u2019m such a good sport, I decided to blog about it today. Now say, I know it\u2019s an impossible task to make partikelverb<\/strong> interesting, but hey, we can give it a shot, right?<\/p>\n

So, what\u2019s a partikelverb<\/strong> anyway? As the name suggests, it\u2019s a verb and a particle put together. Those nasty little things are known as phrasal verbs in English.<\/p>\n

The problem in Swedish is that you can have a genuine verb with a particle, and then you can have a verb followed by a preposition. And wouldn\u2019t you know it? There\u2019s a difference! Now, isn\u2019t that special?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

So how can you tell them apart? Well, since it\u2019s Swedish, it\u2019s gotta be by which word is being stressed. As I\u2019m sure you know, Swedish is really big on the whole stress thingie.<\/p>\n

With verbs and particles it works like that: the verb is not stressed, but the particle is.
\nWith verbs followed by prepositions it works the other way round: the verb is stressed and the preposition is not.<\/p>\n

Confused yet? No worries, it will only get worse. Remember when we were talking about the preposition \u201cp\u00e5<\/strong>\u201d<\/a>? I didn\u2019t tell you back then that \u201cp\u00e5<\/strong>\u201d can be both a preposition AND a particle. Like in this example:<\/p>\n