"You are girls."
Translation:Ni är flickor.
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Yes, är is the present form of verb to be in swedish, in all pronouns you use är! The plural of Flicka is flickor (indeterminate form) and flickorna (determinate form), but without s at the end.
This looks like a deliberate "gotcha" until you figure out that flickor is plural and it must be to teach us non natives the fine distinction that Ni is for plural (flickor) and du would be for a single girl, flicka. It still seems nasty rather than positive
Why is it that ar is used when saying "you are girls" and not when you say "you are drinking", as when I formed that it came to "Ni dricker"
English can use forms of "be" to do different things depending on what they are. For instance:
- you are [verb] forms the continuous
- you are a [noun] tells what something is
- you are [adjective] tells how something appears
These are all common traits that exist in many more languages. But Swedish doesn't have a continuous, so the first one, with the verb, doesn't function.
