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Before ordinal numbers and adjectives indicating quantity, the definite article is dropped: "första gången" (the first time), "hela världen" (the whole world). However, the definite suffix of the noun is preserved.
Before ordinal numbers and adjectives indicating quantity, the definite article is dropped: "första gången" (the first time), "hela världen" (the whole world). However, the definite suffix of the noun is preserved.
====The Adjective====
Swedish adjective are a declinable part of speech, which means they change their form according to their function in a phrase, as well as the words they modify. An adjective in Swedish has the following grammatical categories:
* gender
* number
* definiteness
* degree of comparison
In modern Swedish, adjectives are not declined for case.
The category of definiteness is crucial in Swedish. All old Germanic languages had two different declensions of adjectives - strong (with indefinite nouns or as predicate) and weak (with definite nouns). The strong declension reflected the declension of pronouns, while the weak declension took the endings of weak nouns. Nowadays, the category of definiteness was erased from some Germanic language (English, Afrikaans) or is present as rudiment (Dutch, Frisian, Yiddish). In all Scandinavian languages, as well as in German, the category of definiteness is still significant in the system of the Adjective.
Swedish adjectives in the positive degree are declined as follows:
'''Indefinite:'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Common singular base ending
! Neuter singular ending
! Plural ending
|-
| -
| -t
| -a
|-
| consonant + -t
| -
| -a
|-
| -tt
| -
| -a
|-
| stressed vowel
| -tt
| -a
|-
| stressed vowel + -d / -t
| -d / -t -> -tt
| -a
|-
| consonant + -d
| -d -> -t
| -a
|-
| -ad
| -ad -> -at
| -e
|-
| -en
| -en -> -et
| -en -> -na
|-
| stressed -at / -et / -ut
| -
| -a
|}
[[Category: Germanic languages]]
[[Category: Germanic languages]]