grannen

In a sentence

• Grannen hjälpte mig att måla huset.

  The neighbor helped me paint the house.

  Here, 'grannen' is used in the nominative case as the subject of the sentence, referring to the neighbor who performed the action of helping.

• Jag såg grannen i trädgården igår.

  I saw the neighbor in the garden yesterday.

  In this sentence, 'grannen' is the object of the action performed by the subject 'jag'. It refers to the neighbor being seen.

• Vi bor bredvid grannen i det blå huset.

  We live next to the neighbor in the blue house.

  The term 'grannen' is used possessively to describe the positional relationship between the speaker and the neighbor residing in the blue house.