{"id":7300,"date":"2016-03-31T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=7300"},"modified":"2016-04-01T12:30:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T12:30:15","slug":"the-swedish-definite-form-demonstrative-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/the-swedish-definite-form-demonstrative-pronouns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swedish Definite Form \u2013 Demonstrative Pronouns"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Den<\/a>

Denna bruna hund heter Daisy Mae.
\u201cDaisy\u201d by Marcus Cederstr\u00f6m.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Swedish language can be a bit tricky when working with the definite to describe something. As Stephen points out in \u201cWhy the double-definite in Swedish?<\/a>\u201d you\u2019ll notice, if you haven\u2019t already, that when you\u2019re using an adjective to describe a noun in the definite form you\u2019re going to double up on your definiteness. For example, to describe the brown dog you will say: den bruna hunden<\/em>. To describe the red house say: det r\u00f6da huset<\/em>. To describe the brown dogs and the red houses say: de bruna hundarna och de r\u00f6da husen<\/em>. See how the definiteness gets doubled up? We use den<\/em>, det<\/em>, and de<\/em>, as well as the definite articles on the end of the nouns. In fact, even the adjectives get a definite ending. The Swedish language wants to make sure that you definitely know you\u2019re using the definite. (See what I did there? Cute, right?)<\/p>\n

You do the exact same thing when you\u2019re trying to describe this (den\/det h\u00e4r<\/em>), that (den\/det d\u00e4r<\/em>), these (de h\u00e4r<\/em>), or those (de d\u00e4r<\/em>). For example:<\/p>\n