{"id":6740,"date":"2014-08-13T14:58:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T14:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=6740"},"modified":"2014-08-14T08:05:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T08:05:50","slug":"boxes-and-hedgehogs-expressing-there-isare-in-swedish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/boxes-and-hedgehogs-expressing-there-isare-in-swedish\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxes and hedgehogs: Expressing &#8220;there is\/are&#8221; in Swedish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tjena!<\/strong> Let me present to you the next installment in the Swedish with Steve series: &#8220;Boxes and hedgehogs: Expressing &#8216;there is\/are&#8217; in Swedish&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TZkTRgpdYtY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen title=\"Embedded video\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In a previous post, I told you <a title=\"One of the most important Swedish verbs: vara, \u201cto be\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/one-of-the-most-important-swedish-verbs-vara-to-be\/\" target=\"_blank\">about the Swedish verb <em>vara<\/em> and its different forms<\/a>. This time, I\u2019m going to teach you how to say \u201cthere is\u201d or \u201cthere are\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For this expression, you<strong> generally actually don\u2019t use the verb <em>vara<\/em><\/strong>. Instead, you <strong>use the verb <em>finnas<\/em><\/strong>, which, directly translated, means &#8220;to exist&#8221;. The Swedish equivalent of \u201cthere is\u201d or \u201cthere are\u201d is <em>det finns<\/em>. Here are some example sentences:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 30px\"><em>Det finns en burk med tomats\u00e5s i sk\u00e5pet.<\/em> \u2013 There is a can of tomato sauce in the cupboard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 30px\"><em>Det finns m\u00e5nga igelkottar i Sverige.<\/em> \u2013 There are many hedgehogs in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Easy enough, right? <strong><em>Det finns<\/em> means &#8220;there is&#8221; or &#8220;there are&#8221;.<\/strong> Putting <em>det finns<\/em> in past tense is easy. To say &#8220;there was&#8221; or &#8220;there were&#8221;, you say <em>det fanns<\/em>. Here are some examples of how one might use <em>det fanns <\/em>in a sentence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Det fanns en tung l\u00e5da i trappan.<\/em> \u2013 There was a heavy box on the staircase.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Det fanns n\u00e5gra ord p\u00e5 sk\u00e4rmen n\u00e4r jag gick in i rummet.<\/em> \u2013 There were some words on the screen when I walked into the room.<\/p>\n<p>So, <em>det finns<\/em> is present tense and <strong><em>det fanns<\/em> is past tense<\/strong>. What&#8217;s left are the so-called &#8220;perfect&#8221; forms, the equivalents of &#8220;there has been&#8221; or &#8220;there have been&#8221;, and &#8220;there had been&#8221;. <strong>To express &#8220;there has been&#8221; or &#8220;there have been&#8221;, the construction is <em>det har funnits<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Det har funnits en f\u00e5gelbo i tr\u00e4det.<\/em>\u00a0\u2212 There has been a bird&#8217;s nest in the tree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Det har funnits fler milit\u00e4rl\u00e4ger i Sverige tidigare.<\/em>\u00a0\u2212 There have been more military camps in Sweden previously.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, <strong>&#8220;there had been&#8221;: <em>det hade funnits<\/em><\/strong>. It&#8217;s used like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Det hade funnits ett hus p\u00e5 tomten, men n\u00e4r vi kom tillbaka var det borta.<\/em>\u00a0\u2212 There had been a house on the lot, but when we came back, it was gone.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s how you use the verb <em>finnas<\/em> to express &#8220;there is&#8221; or &#8220;there are&#8221; in all tenses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Conjugation summary: <em>finnas<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>det finns<\/em> &#8211; there is, there are<br \/>\n<em>det fanns<\/em> &#8211; there was, there were<br \/>\n<em>det har funnits<\/em> &#8211; there has been, there have been<br \/>\n<em>det hade funnits<\/em> &#8211; there had been<\/p>\n<p>Thanks as always for reading, and don&#8217;t hesitate to comment! \ud83d\ude09 <em>Vi ses!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tjena! Let me present to you the next installment in the Swedish with Steve series: &#8220;Boxes and hedgehogs: Expressing &#8216;there is\/are&#8217; in Swedish&#8221;. In a previous post, I told you about the Swedish verb vara and its different forms. This time, I\u2019m going to teach you how to say \u201cthere is\u201d or \u201cthere are\u201d. 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