Swedish: An Essential Grammar, 2nd edition

Determinative pronouns
Non-neuter
Neuter
Plural
den flicka
⊗
som
det hus
⊗
som de flickor
⊗
/hus
⊗
som
1 The determinative is a kind of demonstrative that directs attention to
a following relative clause. When the determinative qualifies a noun, the
noun has no end article (cf. demonstratives 5.8 above):
Cf. Demonstrative:
De turisterna därborta fick mycket sol.
Those tourists over there got a lot of sun.
Determinative:
De turister som åkte till Island fick mycket sol, medan de
turister som åkte till Italien fick regn varje dag.
Those/The tourists who went to Iceland got a lot of sun, whilst
those/the tourists who went to Italy had rain every day.
2 Determinatives are used when the following relative clause is essential
to the sentence (‘restrictive clause’). Notice that a contrast is often implied.
If the relative clause is merely an afterthought and may be deleted (‘non-
restrictive clause’), then an end article is used. Cf.