In this deck, you will learn how to use Swedish past and present participles as adjectives to describe states and feelings. You will practise matching their endings to different nouns, and see how they differ from regular adjectives and verb actions.

When you want to describe the state something is in right now, use the verb är followed by a past participle. For example, Dörren är stängd means The door is closed. If you want to describe the action that someone performed, use har instead: Någon har stängt dörren means Someone has closed the door.

Just like ordinary adjectives, past participles change their endings to match the noun. For an en-word, we say stängd. For an ett-word, the ending changes to a T, giving stängt. For plural nouns, add an A to get stängda. For example, Fönstret är stängt means The window is closed.