"Hundarna äter katterna."
Translation:The dogs eat the cats.
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Lol! This is the kind of phrases that Lanfocus was talking about in his video. He tried to advice us about Duolingo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbmXSR_QiP8
I'm using a mobile app so I'm not sure if this is explained somewhere before the lesson, but if I understood it correctly if a noun end in -a (for example, flicka or kvinna), then the plural is -or, and if ends in -e or something else (e.g. pojke, tallrik, hund), plural is -ar. So en katt, katten, but why is it katterna and not kattarna, is that an exception or is my logic wrong?
Plurals
Swedish plurals have a reputation for being irregular and hard to learn. This is, in fact, not true. While there are certainly many irregular plural forms in Swedish, there is also a lot of predictability, and a large amount of words are entirely predictable if you know the rules!
Below are the 5 normal Swedish plural forms - both indefinite and definite. Singular Plural indefinite Plural definite en kvinna kvinnor kvinnorna en hund hundar hundarna en sak saker sakerna ett hus hus husen ett yrke yrken yrkena
How to predict the plural En-words
<pre>-a → -or
en kvinna → kvinnor
en gata → gator
-e → -ar
en pojke → pojkar
Words in -are have no special plural form.
en läkare → läkare
-ing → -ingar
en tidning → tidningar
Words with stress on the final syllable always take -er.
en elefant → elefanter
en station → stationer
en idé → idéer
Words ending in -el, --er and -en usually take -ar, losing their e in the process.
en fågel → fåglar
en vinter → vintrar
One-syllable words can take either -ar or -er, usually the former.
en hund → hundar
en färg → färger
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Ett-words
<pre>If they end in a consonant, they have no plural ending.
ett hus → hus
ett barn → barn
If they end in a vowel, they take -n.
ett yrke → yrken
ett meddelande → meddelanden
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Irregular plurals
There are several irregular plural forms, usually these include changing the main vowel.
en man → män en mus → möss en hand → händer en bok → böcker The ending -en
It's important to remember that the ending -en can be one of three things: 1. the definite singular of an en-word 2. the definite plural of an ett-word ending in a consonant 3. the indefinite plural of an ett-word ending in a vowel Beware of this common trap for students of Swedish!
<pre>armen = the arm
husen = the houses
äpplen = apples
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I hope you understand now :D * This is the article that appears when you use duolingo at a pc.
My friend's ancient grandma says she used to eat cat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_meat#Europe
I think the trivial fact that cats eat mice and dogs eat cats is something a three-year-old could explain; so let's stop pretending this is somehow astonishing news.
"I like the dogs" means I like a specific set of dogs. It's definite. "I like dogs" means I like dogs in general. It's not referring to specific dogs. It's indefinite. If your question is actually about recognizing which Swedish suffixes indicate a definite, you could start with this table:
https://www.duolingo.com/skill/sv/Plurals
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This sentence has to remain. Yes it probably has horrible connotations but I've read sentences about people dying and bears eating vegetarians in other courses were there wasn't as much upheaval.