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- "It is the cats' food."
"It is the cats' food."
Translation:Det är katternas mat.
November 20, 2014
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Indeed.
Cat's represents the possessive of a single cat whereas cats' represents the possessive of multiple cats. It's just how we handle possessives in English. However, sometimes you'll also see proper names with just the apostrophe at the end and those are definitely singular most of the time (i.e. Jesus' sandals).
They are, but Swedish defaults to the neuter gender for the general "it" before the noun has been introduced. I wrote a little more about it e.g. here, towards the bottom: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/26420394