"May I borrow your racket?"

Translation: Får jag låna din racket?

[nimbus77]

There are some nouns that are both n-words and t-words. Does anyone know if racket is such a noun? I know it at least is an n-word.

[Arnauti]

SAOL recommends "en racket" so we tried to write that everywhere in the course. However, very many people say "ett racket", so that is always accepted too.

[jarrettph]

I thought loan words always take -en.

[devalanteriel]

Nope. :)

[jarrettph]

No this isn't a loan word or no they don't always take en?

[devalanteriel]

Sorry - no, they don't always take en. This is certainly a loanword. :)

[jarrettph]

I see. That's what I always thought. Guess you learn something new everyday. :)

[nimbus77]

I was one of those, but not anymore. :)

[Hashmush]

That is a very problematic word. I usually try to avoid using that word in the definite case. However I would say 'ett racket' but possibly 'den racketen' because 'det racketet' is annoying to say with the repeated ending.

[nimbus77]

"Det racketet" does sound annoying. :)

[NathanHill16]

The "ck" combination seems unusual in Swedish. Is this word an import from English, by any chance?

[devalanteriel]

They're both from the French raquette, but the ck combination is actually not that uncommon at all in Swedish.

[NathanHill16]

Half-right for the wrong reasons: the story of my life!

[Huguenot7]

Is "får" an exception to the verb position rule? I had to reverse it to Får jag låna from Får låna jag.

[devalanteriel]

The v2 rule doesn't apply to questions - for more info, see e.g. Arnauti's excellent post here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/8970470