"Kvinnan dricker en kopp kaffe."

Translation:The woman is drinking a cup of coffee.

November 18, 2014

22 Comments
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https://www.duolingo.com/profile/SunnySkyz

seriously, i mistaked women with woman and it failed me, die


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Sozzio

Woman os one but women it's more than one


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/isatlasinthe

I always think of this from a spy's point of view for some reason


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Kornellier

It reminds me to a "relaxing cup of café con leche in plaza mayor", a quote from the ex-mayor of Madrid. How embarrassing...


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/SDPhil

Is Swedish similar to Semitic languages where there is no "of"? This sentences says "The woman drinks a cup coffee" I was just wondering if it is natural in Swedish not to have "of" in a situation like this.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Arnauti

In some cases we have a word like of, which is av in Swedish. But for containers with content, more often we use med, which usually corresponds to with in English. So you could also say en kopp med kaffe. Av tends to be used more for things that are "constructed out of" something. Like, ett hjärta av sten = "a heart of stone". But, in general, we do use the of less. And of course it is often replaced by compound nouns as well.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/SDPhil

Tack sa mycket, Arnauti :)


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Iikka

No, there is a word for "of", but you don't use it when talking about a cup of coffee, a bowl of cereal etc. The word is "av" and you can read when to use it here: http://blogs.transparent.com/swedish/the-many-uses-of-the-preposition-av/


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Prazivalofficial

when i go on the translator, it says something different for these sentences


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/TiitusKokk

"The woman is drinking" was wrong


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Choey4

I forgot so I just wrote "The girl drinks what"


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/CatherineHans6

How do you know when to use the 'i' spelling or the 'y' spelling of dricker (drycker)?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Arnauti

en dryck = 'a beverage', plural drycker = noun
dricker = 'drinks', 'is drinking' = verb


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Hangaroid

I wrote "The woman is drinking a cup of tea" and didn't get accepted even though in similar cases it didn't matter wheter I used one or the other. Is there a certain reason why it doesn't work here?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Mollie603428

My awnser was correct but it didn't except it


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Andrew242102

Answer needs checking!


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/MTAliz

Mom, is that you?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/CaliforniaNorma

I wonder how one might say:

"a coffee cup" as opposed to, for example, a teacup?

Would it be:... en kaffe kopp?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Sakshi600551

Pls explain the difference for drinks and is drinking.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/turtlesammich

Is "drycker" or "dricker" correct? I've typed "drycker" every time and been marked correct, but the one time I put an L instead of a K, it corrected it (annoyingly) as "dricker"


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/MarvelMani1

they both can be translated as 'drinks', but have different meanings.
drycker is the plural of dryck (noun, like in "I had two drinks").
dricker is the present tense of the verb dricka (as in " he drinks coffee in the morning)

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