"Bedstemoren leger med børnene."

Translation: The grandmother plays with the children.

[FinaLau]

I thought at first it says 'The grandmother plays with the bears.' I guess I miss the bears :D

[Gerardd88]

I begin to feel like I'm not the only one who constantly mistakes children with bears throughout this course :D

[Irusejka]

Why the translation "The granny plays with the children" is not accepted?

[Corin_Wright]

I put "The grandmum plays with the children"... wrong apparently

[PhilWorld]

it is always accepted. The most important thing is that the meaning is the same.

[rachelvanto]

Hmm... I put down "mum" for "mother" in a previous question that asked me to translate to English from Danish, and it marked me as wrong too. But I thought it was because the word "mum" is not used in an academic sense - like I would not write an academic report using the word "mum" instead of "mother" - so I did not leave a comment about it.

[Corin_Wright]

it does mean the same though, doesnt it?

[PhilWorld]

Ja :)

[bcrocco1]

This showed me "nan" for grandmother, I had to come here for a reminder of what bedstemoren meant. Didn't know nan was a grandmother.

[Xneb]

If you hover over a word, or tap it on the mobile app, it will give you hints (although not always right, here it should show "the grandmother" on its own). "Nan" is just an alternative answer

[JBranch1998]

If "nan" is an alternative answer why wouldn't "granny" be one as well

[Xneb]

Probably because it wasn't thought of as an answer by the one who wrote the sentence originally, but I have added it now.

[MissPlinius]

It accepts "grandma"

[Pat211087]

The queen is called 'granny' by her grandchildren. I believe it to be the most common version of grandmother.

[Pat211087]

Thank you! There are several other sentences which do not accept granny as a translation though. ..

[Sopzeh]

The TTS for bedstemoren is really weird on the fast version but fine on the slow.

[zeusttu]

Same here, it says bedstem-oren instead of bedste-moren. I think I've heard the TTS pronounce the word correctly before, I'm not 100% sure but if so it must be a relatively new bug.

[Dethcola]

Isn't the word for grandmother mormor or farmor depending on which side of the family? That's what I was always taught

[RyagonIV]

That is correct, but there's also the general bedstemor, and conversely bedstefar.

[JBranch1998]

"granny" wasn't accepted

[pablopublico]

It sounds to me like like "Bedstem Oren", and I don't know if it is a mispronunciation of the TTS, or it sounds like that because of the stød or something like that. What do you think? I think that in Norwegian it would be pronounced "beste moren" if in the need of a small pause in the middle of the word.

[RyagonIV]

This is a miss of the TTS. It should be one smooth word, "bestemōrn".

[pablopublico]

Ok. Tak!