"Hans barn dricker inte kaffe."
Translation:His children do not drink coffee.
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As a Sweden Finn I have to object :) As far as I know Finland has the highest consumption per capita.
Potato, potato... I guess we're avid caffeinists on both sides of the pond. :)
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Potato? Reminds me I was never able to find out what the Sjöwall+Wahllöö title Polis, polis, potatismos! (which book of course I only read in a translation under a different name) was about...
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Are there any specific ways we know "barn" is plural or singular? I got a different translation wrong, I don't remember the sentence, but I used the singular when the plural was the correct one. However, either should have been correct. I suppose this might be a bug, I'll check it out and report it next time.
In the indefinite form you cannot tell the difference. But in the definite form "the child" - "barnet", but "the children" - "barnen"
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Just looked back on this from 4 months ago. In this time, I've finished my tree, run the group on Facebook, translated Swedish news, and conversed with friends at a casual level.
They grow up so fast.
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Are all of these acceptable: "His child does not drink coffee", "His child is not drinking coffee", "His children do not drink coffee", "His children are not drinking coffee"?
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Yes. It's because hans does not change. If it had been mitt/mina instead for instance, we would have known whether it's one child or many children.
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When hearing/reading "hans barn", how should I differenciate between "his child" and "his children"?
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What's the diff between "han" and "hans"...why the s?
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Is "His children drink no coffee" acceptable or would there be a different way of saying that?
hey, why exactly is his kids on plural and not just his kid on singular? I wrote on singular and it was wrong :(
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See David7697s comment above and my answer. The singular is accepted both with is not drinking and does not drink. Perhaps you had some other typo without noticing?
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His child is sitt barn and his children is sina barn.
However sin/sitt/sina cannot be subject of a sentence, only object.
