almostawinchester:dagenssvenska:Och hur kommer det sig?And why is that?@jordgubbe-judas #how the hel
almostawinchester:dagenssvenska:Och hur kommer det sig?And why is that?@jordgubbe-judas #how the hell does this work hahaOo, maybe I can explain WHY it is that “och hur kommer det sig?” translates to “and why is that?”.First and foremost, a slightly “better” translation (if you want to understand the Swedish grammar) is “And how come?”Secondly, you need to know that the verb used in this question is att komma sig, which sort of means to happen/to come about, and implies a causal relationship between a factor and an outcome. In Swedish this is a reflexive verb – thus the “sig” (itself). Thirdly, when using the verb in a statement, you’d say something like “Det kommer sig av”. The literal translation would be “it comes itself of”, whereas the meaning is something like “it’s due to” or “the reason for this is”.So when turning “det kommer sig av” into a question, we add the question word “hur” (how), and keep both the “det” (it) and the reflexive “sig” (itself), but just have them switch places. As Swedish is a V2 language (a.k.a. the verb always needs to come second in statements and w/h-questions), this means that the “det” is placed after the reflexive verb “komma”, but before the reflexive pronoun “sig”: 1. Hur 2. kommer 3. det 4. sig?And voilà, now you have the question “Hur kommer det sig?”Hope that helps! :) -- source link
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