"En kopp socker"
Translation:A cup of sugar
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As someone speaking english most of the time, what is it you hear first here...
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Tusen tack, dude. I was starting to think I was the only one haha :D
When you talk about amounts, English uses a preposition ”a glass OF water”, ”a cup OF sugar”, but Swedish doesn’t, so it’s ”ett glas vatten” and ”en kopp socker”.
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But you CAN say "en kopp med socker" if you want to. That is literally "a cup with sugar". It's not wrong to say that.
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In lieu of Lundgren's response, it is the same way in German. English just needs a preposition here, like other Romance languages would.
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Yep. I like to think of English as Germanic words with Romantic grammar... not totally accurate but it's certainly an interesting mix.
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Actually, its more like German, Dutch, and French words mixed in as French and the Netherlands were so close to England and highly influenced the language in the early modern age.
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Now, is "cup" in this case also a measurement? I don't imagine the Swedish language bothers to have a separate word for a measurement it doesn't use.
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Yes, it can be used as both. Same thing in Finnish, Norwegian etc.. If you wanna use european measurements you can say for example en deciliter socker.
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I don't think it sounds as natural as "A cup of sugar," but it doesn't seem wrong either. Probably, yes.
It's a "spoonful", how much do you need to take your medicine? :p
The original Swedish translation said med lite socker i botten - "with some sugar at the bottom [of the cup]", but a more recent translation is more faithful to the original.
