{"id":6777,"date":"2014-10-06T15:21:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=6777"},"modified":"2018-08-09T17:19:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T17:19:54","slug":"indeclinable-swedish-adjectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/indeclinable-swedish-adjectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Indeclinable Swedish Adjectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve talked about adjectives quite a bit here. How to use them with <em>en<\/em> words, how to use them with <em>ett<\/em> words, how to use them with plural words. You can check out some of those posts here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/swedish-adjective-and-noun\/\">Swedish adjective and noun<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/adjectives-and-specificness-in-swedish\/\">Adjectives and specificness in Swedish<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/adjectives-and-specificness-in-swedish-part-2\/\">Adjectives and specificness in Swedish, Part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/30-common-swedish-adjectives\/\">30 Common Swedish Adjectives<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, a quick recap of\u00a0the main rule about declinable adjectives using the word <em>stor <\/em>(big):<\/p>\n<p>If it is an <em>en<\/em> word, you don\u2019t change the adjective:<br \/>\n<em>En stor man<\/em>. A big man. See? No change<\/p>\n<p>If it is an <em>ett<\/em> word, you add a \u2013t:<br \/>\n<em>Ett stort lejon<\/em>. A big lion. <em>Stor<\/em> + t = <em>stort<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If it a plural word, you add an \u2013a.:<br \/>\n<em>Tv\u00e5 stora m\u00e4n<\/em>. Two big men. Plural <em>en<\/em> word? <em>Stor<\/em> + a = <em>stora<\/em>.<br \/>\n<em>Tv\u00e5 stora lejon<\/em>. Two big lions. Plural <em>ett<\/em> word? <em>Stor<\/em> + a = <em>stora<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are also adjectives that you can\u2019t decline at all. Which means you\u2019re not going to be adding a \u2013t or an \u2013a. But how do you know which adjectives can be declined and which can\u2019t?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s actually surprisingly simple. If the adjective ends with an \u2013a, \u2013e, or \u2013s, chances are you\u2019re not going to decline the word. Then there are words like <em>kul<\/em> or <em>fel<\/em> that you also don\u2019t decline. (And don\u2019t forget about exceptions to the \u2013a, \u2013e, or \u2013s rule. The word <em>arbetsl\u00f6s<\/em> (unemployed), for example, is declined. It is declined because even though it ends in \u2013s, there\u2019s an \u2013\u00f6 before it.) We\u2019re going to ignore the exceptions for right now to make things just a bit easier.<\/p>\n<p>With our new rules in mind, that adjectives are (generally) not declined if they end in \u2013a, \u2013e, or \u2013s, let\u2019s take a look at some examples. I\u2019ve listed four words for each rule, but there are plenty more to choose from.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-A<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Annorlunda<\/em> (Different)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>En annorlunda kvinna<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Ett annorlunda barn<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Tv\u00e5 annorlunda bebisar<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Bra<\/em> (Good)<br \/>\n<em>Udda<\/em> (Odd)<br \/>\n<em>\u00c4kta<\/em> (Authentic)<\/p>\n<p><strong>-E:<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Leende<\/em> (Smiling)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>En leende man<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Ett leende barn<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Tv\u00e5 leende bebisar<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Ordinarie<\/em> (Regular)<br \/>\n<em>Sp\u00e4nnande<\/em> (Exciting)<br \/>\n<em>\u00d6de<\/em> (Desert\/Desolate)<\/p>\n<p><strong>-S:<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Gratis<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>En gratis bok<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Ett gratis SMS<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Tv\u00e5 gratis b\u00f6cker<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Gammaldags<\/em> (Old-Fashioned)<br \/>\n<em>Inrikes<\/em> (Domestic)<br \/>\n<em>Utrikes<\/em> (Foreign)<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve talked about adjectives quite a bit here. How to use them with en words, how to use them with ett words, how to use them with plural words. You can check out some of those posts here: Swedish adjective and noun Adjectives and specificness in Swedish Adjectives and specificness in Swedish, Part 2 30&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/indeclinable-swedish-adjectives\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[269722,7744],"class_list":["post-6777","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar","tag-swedish-adjectives","tag-swedish-grammar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6777"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8131,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions\/8131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}