A new king or a new king?

GP offered both categories on September 11. One spread had two headlines: “People flock to pay homage to new king” and “New king on coins next year.”

Which one is right? The somewhat boring answer is that both inflections are seen as correct New And New. Normal Swedish conjugation consists of e-conjugation before words denoting individuals of the male gender and a-conjugation in other cases. That’s what it’s called Young Man but that Young girl This applies not only to humans but also to pets.

However, now it’s more complicated than that. Which is better New Or New Regent of Great Britain. Noun Regent The gender isn’t revealed, but we know his name is Charles and he’s male. In this case, it is not so clear, and our opinions may differ. Both forms are correct according to language conservation.

In a hypothetical case that is The new government minister is Bo Barsk It is a-conjugation because it is a noun City councilt is the neuter, definite article The. It doesn’t help that the named (or named) person is male.

A new party leader will come in the middle. would you say The center is new Or The center is new Party leader Now we still don’t know who it will be. I think most people see New As the most suitable option. You follow the principle that for e-curve you have to have a human in mind.

To these tricky cases we can add clear speech distinctions. In Svealand and the north, the a-curve is common. Author Carlfeld from Dollarna actually wrote “Look, Black Rudolph he dances, he bends his neck and smiles”. To us in Gotland, he should be called Black Rudolph.

Many in southern Sweden, by contrast, use e-forms more. Astrid Lindgren’s Ida sings about “the sweet little cat.” No one in Gothenburg would say anything arbitrarily. However, we can say (write less often) Old/New/Blue CarAnd e forms are used even in the plural: Those ugly old cars.

Those wanting a longer list of tricky cases between e- and a-inflections are advised to visit the Language Council’s question box. Once there, search for “adjective conjugation.” The question box also provides answers to multilingual questions.

We must live with a contrast between the e- and a- inflections of adjectives, and it must be concluded that the whole world does not exist. An alternative indicated in the questionnaire is that everyone should switch to a-forms in general, but most people in southern Sweden refuse to do that.