No. 322 in Swedish
barnen
"The children."
In a sentence
Barnen leker i parken.
The children are playing in the park.
'Barnen' is used in its plural definite form to refer to 'the children', indicating a specific group known to the speaker.
Föräldrarna hämtade barnen från skolan.
The parents picked up the children from school.
'Barnen' is used again as the definite plural form, showing possession and indicating a specific set of 'children' related to or known by the parents.
Skrivböckerna är för barnen i klassen.
The notebooks are for the children in the class.
Here, 'barnen' is used to specify 'the children' in relation to a defined group, the class.
Hear it in real podcasts
The recording above is a synthetic voice. Hear how people say “barnen” in actual Swedish podcasts.
Find “barnen” in podcastsLearn it from shows you like
LangTurbo plays Swedish podcasts with a transcript and the English under every line. Tap a word like this one and it tells you what it means right there. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Learning English?
LangTurbo plays real English podcasts with every line translated into svenska, and tells you what any word means in that sentence. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Swedish books and courses on Amazon (an affiliate link: a purchase through it supports this site).