"Älgen sover i natt."
Translation:The moose is sleeping tonight.
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There is actually a Swedish translation of the song! It goes:
Mitt i djungeln, den stora djungeln
Där sover lejonen
Which is easy to change to moose just going for "skogen" and "älgarna" instead. :D
And by the way, forests aren't really considered mighty in Swedish. Mäktig is used with actual power or sometimes with very rich desserts. :)
This thread right here... This is why Swedish is the best course. First det regnar män and now this.
Could you tell me the difference between djungeln and skogen please? I've seen skog- before in some History papers (as skóggang and skogamaðr) but never djungeln.
Could be wrong so might need corroboration, but I think 'djungeln' is jungle and 'skogen' is forest. Lions live in jungles and moose live in forests. :)
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Skog is the general word for forests in North Germanic languages (from Old Norse skógr, therefore a Proto-Germanic skōgaz), and is related to words like 'shag' for carpets and 'shaggy' for beards (from Old English 'sceacga'). However the Norse word was also borrowed into Old English as 'sceaga', which became modern 'shaw', notice the double consonants in 'sceacga' compared with 'sceaga', which preserve the hardened -g sound.
Skóggang means forest-passage (like Jünger's Waldgang), and Skógamaðr means man of forests (-a is possessive plural).
Norden har ingen kung men nordens kungen som heter älg!
The north knows no king but the king in the north whose name is moose!
That sounds good to me but i also like Lejonet från norden by Sabaton. Maybe one day they'll sing about a mighty moose lol
Could this also mean "The moose sleeps at night" As in, the moose in an animal that is active during the day and sleeps at night?
I wrote "the moose sleeps at night" and it was wrong. From what I'm understanding from the comments is that "i natt" translates to "tonight" and "på nätten" is "at night" Oi, hopefully that's a rule I'll remember!
No, natt always refers to the night, and kväll always to the evening.
I'm sorry but english isn't my mother tongue. What the difference between "night" and "evening"? Is "evening" the moment between afternoon and night?
Couldn't this also mean "The moose will sleep tonight."? I thought that was a thing, where using the "currently doing" form of a verb, but referring to a future time, turns it into a "will do".
It's true that the present can be used to tell the future, but - as in English - it only really works where it makes idiomatic sense to do so. Otherwise, every single present-tense sentence in this course would have to have future-tense translations.
It wouldn't be every present-tense sentence though, right? It would only be the ones that also specify a time in the future.
I mean, is there a distinction between "The moose sleeps tonight" and "The moose will sleep tonight", and this sentence can only mean one of them and not the other? If there is, I'd be curious to know what it is, since the sentence seems to fit the pattern of "will do" sentences as I described above. And if there is no such distinction, shouldn't both "sleeps" and "will sleep" be considered correct? If anything, "The moose will sleep tonight" sounds more normal to my American ear, and "The moose sleeps tonight" sounds like more of a dramatic/poetic way to say it, although both ways have essentially the same meaning.
Fair enough, you have a point. :) Still, I would only think this sentence was about the future if that has been made abundantly clear through context, and it would honestly sound a bit strange even then. That's what I mean about it making idiomatic sense. It's grammatical, for sure, but hardly a feasible interpretation.
"Lejonet sover i kväll..." It's not as good as the moose/elk sleeping in the mighty forest, but...
I hate moose! They chase me when i am running!!! Please tell me how to say that on svenska.