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Explain how me putting in "the man and the woman eat lunch" is wrong. It keeps saying it's wrong but the correct answer is "the man and the woman eat lunch" so... What?
had the same. the corract answer accirding to the app is the man and the woman EATS lunch..... my nativ language is not english but i am pretty sure it should be eat and not eats
Äter means have as well? Correct solution: The man and the woman have lunch.
That is correct. However, you cannot say "Mannen och kvinnan har lunch" in Swedish.
Well, it's not really that it means have. It's just that in English, there's the idiom “to have lunch”, which means nothing other than to eat lunch, which is also what "äter lunch" means, so of course you could translate that back to "have lunch".
Can you say "Mannen och kvinnan luncher" like you can in English? The man and the woman lunch. [2019/05/06]
I wrote "the man and the woman eats lunch" and I was graded wrong. Please, how can you translate the above sentence I wrote to Swedish.
You'd say either "the man eats" or "the woman eats" - but if you put them together, you have two people, so you need "the man and the woman eat" without the s.
Swedish doesn't make a difference between them, so the same phrase translates to both.
As devalanteriel said, it means both. You can decipher which one is actually being meant based on the context or other words in the sentence.
This isn't a good example, but, like, "put" is "put" in all tenses in English. You only know which tense is being used based on the other words in the sentence.
Is "the" in Swedish used the same way as it is in English? At least when it comes to nouns? I mean, in English if you were to say "the man", that would mean the man has been mentioned in the conversation before. Either that or a specific man is being pointed out. Is that how it is in Swedish?
Yes, that's correct. It's called a "definite". English uses "the" to show that something's a definite, while Swedish uses a suffix. You'll soon encounter that Swedish has a bit more advanced definite system than English, beyond the base case. :)
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Sometimes the correct translation for swedish "lunch" is the english "dinner" but sometimes the english "lunch" is correct. Is that meant to be so?
Swedish lunch and English "lunch" normally only ever mean the midday meal. But Swedish middag and English "dinner" can both mean either the midday meal or the evening meal, depending on the speaker. Hence, translations can get a bit confusing throughout the course.
If that happens again, please consider taking a screenshot so I have something to show the developers.
"the man and the woman eat lunch" is not correct. Äter is presence so "eat" is missing the s, "eats"
with just "eat" it is translated to: Mannen och knives ate lunch
In English the conjugation of the verb to eat is as follows: I eat, you eat, he/she/it eats, we eat, you(pl) eat, they eat. So a man and a woman is plural - therefore - eat is correct.
