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No. Åker is to ride a vehicle but not driving or propelling it, such as travelling by train, plane or car as a passenger.
Gå is a bit more tricky. In essence, it means to walk. There are, though, a handful of phrasal verbs that use gå and don't mean walking. Perhaps the most important thing to understand is that in Swedish, gå is not used for general movement to the extent that is the case in English. If you say Vi går till Sverige, you mean that you actually walked there.
1453
That verb is kör, which means 'drive', but it is possible to say åker even if you're the driver, it's just that the word itself does not say you're driving. Just like you can say in English that you're going somewhere by car, when you're in fact driving the car.
In fact, in English they tend to use drive a little more often than we would kör, so in some cases it would be appropriate to translate drive as åker.
1453
Only in some cases, not as a general rule. fahren can mean 'drive', but åker cannot. Kannst du Auto fahren? -> Kan du köra bil? -> Can you drive a car?
1453
That should be accepted, I'm adding it. åker means both 'ride' (travel by any vehicle) and 'leave' (using any vehicle, not on foot).
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I wrote 'we walk' and Duolingo says that it's wrong, and that correct translation is 'we drive'. For me it sounds straight opposite to 'åker is to ride but not to drive'.
1453
åker is only by vehicle, so 'walk' definitely doesn't work. Riding isn't walking in English either.
'walk' is går in Swedish.
295
Not directly related to the sentence BUT is there a Swedish equivalent to something like 'I'm going to bed' or going to sleep. As neither of the verbs here work.
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Is gå used in the same situations as the german gehen and åker as fahren? Would that be correct?