"Hundarna äter katterna."
Translation:The dogs eat the cats.
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Have you seen the one in French that says "the black bitches (female dogs) eat the white ducks?" Needless to say, it has received many comments.
Well, that's nice. I mean, I'm sure we'll all have to use that out in the world. You never know what you might have to say to a frenchman....
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
Dogs eating cats, humans eating turtles...I'm uncomfortable with these lessons.
Useful! I will remember this and the phrases of people eating oil; never know when I'll need it!
En hund, hunden, hundar, hundarna. En katt, katten, katter, katterna. I'll stop mixing them,... eventually.
It's highly irregular for single-syllable en-words that end on a consonant, such as hund and katt. However, -ar is a bit more common.
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.
Saved this extremely useful information into my "Swedish" folder for future reference!
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Made me laugh so hard :D Sometimes I wonder if there is any logic in the algorithm that builds the sentences
I vote for an opposite contribution. To make the world more fair, at least in language lessons.
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.
Can somebody explain the grammer between which words have "the" at the begining and which ones don't? I don't understand plurals with "the" vs plurals without it.
"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
This sentence is going to be removed from the next version of the tree. I can't remove it from this one for technical reasons. But there are enormous amounts of complaints for it, and with good reason. I don't want it in the course either.
The simple technical solution would be to allow you to lock problem threads from getting comments.
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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.
How do you say "disturbing" or "morbid"? This example is pretty awful in nature.
- disturbing = störande (or a few others, but this fits the best)
- morbid = morbid (should be easy to remember :)
There are apparently 52 comments for this sentence, yet I can't see any when I click the little comment bubble.
There's quite a lot of deleted nonsense in this thread. I believe the bubble number doesn't account for removed comments.
Both nouns are in the definite in Swedish - that's what the -na suffix does here.
Nu börjar det bli blodigt. Hundar brukar vanligtvis inte äta katter, man hade nog kunnat ersätta katterna i den här meningen med någon annan mat. Så man inte gör folk upprörda i onödan.
Omg, this has been here for years, and you still can't remove it? Even that it gets a lot of complaints? Shame
Let's suppose "katterna" is a brand for dog food, just like Whiskas for cat food, it's less brutal this way!
More animal eating. Were you feeling a little savage when you composed this set of lessons, Duo?
Is this also a valid question? "Hundarna äter katterna?"
Or should that be "Äter hunderna katterna?" ?
