Märkte de genom att de kändes och syntes

12:43 Sep 11, 2012 

also in my question I wrote 'known' instead of 'felt' for kändes, just realised I had written it down wrongly.

12:12 Sep 11, 2012 

Thanks for your help and suggestions so far. Yes, it doesn't make sense for the pills to be the things that are felt and seen, even though they are the plural items in the preceeding sentence. It does make more sense for the condition involved to be felt and seen, however this is referred to in the singular in my text. Perhaps, like EKM suggests, it is simply poorly written and a plural 'de' should be 'det'. It is further complicated by the fact that the condition (symptom) alluded to could in fact be felt, but would not actually be seen, so 'syntes' is also confusing me! Sorry for the lack of specific details.

12:07 Sep 11, 2012 

Is the wording that strange? Maybe these are spots or lumps or some other side effect that the individual noticed because they felt them and saw them...Is it that uncommon that we first feel an itch and look to see the source?

12:03 Sep 11, 2012 

The two options I listed are the two grammatically correct phrases possible. As you can see when you compare these phrases to the one you have, either interpretation means that there is at least one grammatical mistake (or typo) in this sentence as it stands. If the speaker 'writes like he/she speaks' then 'de' is how 'det' sounds in many versions of spoken Swedish. I would guess what was noticed was a symptom/symptoms, given that they/it were 'felt' and 'seen'. This/these symptom(s) could perhaps be a result of taking the pills you mention. I agree the phrase is not very clear as it stands.

11:35 Sep 11, 2012 

It is definitely two instances of 'de' in the Swedish. If this can only be a plural form, then it may be referring to some pills that the person was taking, but this is still makes the sentence a bit nonsensical to me.