"Vegetarianen äter inte kött."
Translation:The vegetarian does not eat meat.
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"kött" seems too much like "kot/кот" in Russian, which means cat. So whenever I see kött I have a little flashback to when I was learning a little bit of Russian, and I always think that meat in Swedish is supposed to be a cat...
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That is one kind of meat... The more graphic or strange the image the better you might remember it, but to each his/her own...
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Meat is kött, then the mean would be köttet or kötten? Since meat is not living, i guess it should be köttet?
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That's right, but I don't think it has a lot to do with livingness, or am I wrong?
Because a fork doesn't live either and it's still "gaffeln" and not "gaffelt" or "gafflet" when definite.
Same goes for "child" which is "barnet" and not "barnen" when definite. And a child does live.
Almost all living things are en-words, with barn being one of the few exceptions. That's probably what they meant.
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"Kötten" does however have a meaning. It is definite plural for "kött", in the sense of for example several different kinds of meats.
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We have another way of saying that: Vegetarianen äter inget kött
Why isn't it correct to translate this sentence as: "The vegetarian is not eating meat."?
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Oh that ruddy -en ending! If it looks like a plural... it's probably not a plural?!
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Right, that suffix is never a plural in Swedish.
Au contraire, it totally is a plural ending in some cases. For en-words, it's singular definite. But for ett-words that end in a consonant, it's plural definite.
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H'm, I didn't think of it that way. Without the definite, the plural is the same as the singular, so I was thinking of ‘en’ as being purely a definite suffix there. But you could certainly think of it a plural definite suffix instead.
the way i think of it, it's similar to shirt but that's where the ö sound comes into play, it's like shuurrt pretty much
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kött uses the SHORT ö vowel, so rather than shiiiiirt (dragging out the main vowel) it's more like shirtt (clipping the vowel a litle short). Still, to most English speakers the vowels sound similar but with slightly different mouth shapes. The English [ɜː] in "shirt" is produced with little effort, but in svenska it seems to me [œ] for short ö and [øː] for long ö are pronounced with more intense, forward lips, a bit more work for the mouth
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o my god.. so quick and fast. is it nomal? i just can her only vegetarianen e #$@%@% and kott.
It sounds normal to me. With time, patience and practice, you'll get the hang of it. :)
does anyone know why the 'k' doesn't sound like 'kuh' in the pronounciation of kött? especially with an 's' in front of it?
Before the so-called soft vowels of e, i, y, ä and ö, K and SK are pronounced differently.
It is not. Adjectives have to agree with what they're describing in number and/or definiteness and/or grammatical gender.
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See my answer to EllieLemke.
Sometimes studying languages that have strong similarities can be more difficult this way: a difference in meaning that is neutralised when translating into a language that is very different can be kept when translating into a language that is very close.
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Does Swedish use the definitive ending in the same way that the definite article is udes in english when talking about a class/category of something? As in, for example, The polar bear lives at the North Pole ?
Yes, that definitely happens. Although it wouldn't be my first interpretation without proper context.
It is. If you put that and were marked incorrect, either you had another error or there was a bug.
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What's with all the vegetarian things ?
Why does everyone assume I think it's a bad thing? I just thougt it was curious
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Well, it's pretty crucial communicative vocab if you're going to a country and need to be ordering in restaurants. Pity Duo hasn't caught up on other crucial communicative language such as 'I'll have the xxxx, please' or 'My name is...'. :-\
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I guess they just need some time to catch up wth that. Having this basic Swedish course (though in Beta) in awesome already!
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Jag heter … is in the family lesson. https://www.duolingo.com/comment/8868819
I'll have is just Jag tar or Jag vill ha, so they're all over the course but you might not notice them.