uppräknelig

Uppräknelig is a Swedish adjective that translates to countable in English. It is used in grammar to describe nouns that can be quantified and therefore have both singular and plural forms. For example, "en bok" (a book) is countable because you can have "många böcker" (many books).

In contrast, uncountable nouns, also known as mass nouns, cannot be readily enumerated and typically do not have a plural form. Examples in Swedish include "vatten" (water), "socker" (sugar), and "information" (information). You wouldn't typically say "vattend" or "sockrar" in the same way you would say "böcker".

The concept of countability is important for determining the correct use of articles, determiners, and quantifiers in Swedish. For instance, determiners like "många" (many) and "få" (few) are used with countable nouns, while determiners like "mycket" (much) and "lite" (little) are used with uncountable nouns. Similarly, the indefinite article "en" or "ett" is only used with singular countable nouns. Understanding whether a noun is uppräknelig or not is fundamental to constructing grammatically correct sentences in Swedish.