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- "De tycker om det."
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1491
This isn't quite right. Let's explain it this way instead:
den and det both mean 'it', depending on gender. If you talk about 'the book', boken, you say den, but if you talk about 'the house' huset, you say det.
dem is the object form of the pronoun de which means 'they', so dem means 'them'
So
De tycker om det = They like it
but
De tycker om dem = They like them
You can hear the difference clearly in the spoken language because dem is pronounced as if it were written dom.
det is normally pronounced as if it were written de
1491
It's just that they're talking about some object (concrete or abstract) that was previously mentioned, and since we don't know that context, we don't know what gender that object is, so both are accepted. The speaker knew what gender the object was though, so for them there was no choice.
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I was typing "De tycker om dig." and instead of just saying "that's incorrect" i get the message "you've typed in english, not swedish" which is clearly not the case. This has happened on other lessons and it is really frustrating because it kind of makes me feel like I'm going crazy.
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Nov 28, 2020:
"Astrid's" audio (new voice) is all shmooshed together an very unclear as to what is being said
430
I typed in Swedish "de tycker om det" and kept being told I typed in English not in Swedish. Had to say I couldn't listen to get past.