Swedish: An Essential Grammar, 2nd edition

Han har under de senaste dagarna (OA) stannat hemma.
He has over the past few days stayed home.
Jag brukar tillbringa semestern i Spanien varje år (OA).
I usually spend the holidays in Spain every year.
Jag brukar varje år (OA) tillbringa semestern i Spanien.
I usually every year spend the holidays in Spain.
Unstressed objects
Unstressed object pronouns and reflexive pronouns often move leftwards
into the subject position. This occurs only with a simple verb (present, past).
12.7.4
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CA
NFV
O/C
OA
O –stress
O +stress
Jag
känner –
inte
–
honom.
Jag
känner honom inte.
Han
fick
–
inte
–
det.
Han
fick
det
inte.
Olle
tvättar sig
inte.
(cf. Olle
har
–
inte
tvättat
sig
idag.)
Translations: I don’t know him. I don’t know him. He didn’t get that. He didn’t get it.
Olle doesn’t wash. Olle hasn’t washed today.
Position of inte
The position of inte (and icke, ej, aldrig as well as other clausal adverbials)
varies. In the main clause inte comes immediately after the finite verb or
subject (see 12.3, 12.6.4):
Peter kommer inte idag.
Peter isn’t coming today.
Idag kommer Peter inte.
Today Peter isn’t coming.
Idag har Peter inte kommit.
Today Peter hasn’t come.
In the subordinate clause inte comes immediately before the finite verb
(see 12.8.2):
Olle sa, att Peter inte kommer idag.
S
I
V
SIV = subject-inte-verb
Olle said that Peter isn’t coming today.
One exception to this word order in the main clause has been shown in
12.7.4, where the unstressed object intrudes between the verb and inte.
Another exception is found in cases like the following:
Idag kommer inte 'Peter (men Olle kommer).
cf. Idag kommer Peter 'inte (men han kommer imorgon).
Here inte precedes the subject in a main clause so that Peter remains in
the stress position at the end of the sentence.