Swedish: An Essential Grammar, 2nd edition

regnar, She takes the bus when it rains; Om du tror, att jag kan komma
ihåg, vad han sa, när vi besökte honom förra veckan, har du fel, If you
think that I can remember what he said when we visited him last week,
you’re wrong.
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IMPLE VERB
is one that only consists of one word, e.g. hjälp!, help!;
(han) sover, (he) sleeps; (han) gick, (he) went.
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TATEMENT
is a declarative sentence or clause ending with a full stop:
Numera finns det vargar i norra Sverige, Now there are wolves in
Northern Sweden.
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TEM
is the part of the verb common to all of its forms and to which the
inflexional endings are added, e.g. dansa, dansar, dansade, dansat.
S
UPINE
is an indeclinable form of the verb used together with the auxiliary
verb har to form the perfect tense and hade to form the pluperfect
tense: Jag har/hade målat badrummet, I have/had painted the bathroom.
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YLLABLE
consists of a vowel plus one or more consonants, e.g. ö, dö,