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"Mina föräldrar tycker inte om att du äter myror."
Translation:My parents do not like that you eat ants.
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As a student of French and Spanish, I can positively say it's an absolute godsend.
It's a verb form found in some languages where you change the verb to express e.g. desire.
There's a subjunctive in French? D: Please tell me it at least works exactly like the one in Spanish so I only have to master it once. If I ever manage to, that is.
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We use subjunctive in French but not exactly in the same cases as in Spanish. In fact spanish use it more often and sometimes in a past tense that we never use in French (even if it exists)
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I do not understand what you people all have got against subjunctive cases. At least they increase precision and style within languages. I for myself am glad to be German in terms of such aesthetic additions, although we do not have a separate subjunctive clause. Instead, we are fine with our two conjunctive cases. :D
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Subjunctive is a verb form and cases are noun, pronoun, and adjective forms. The subjunctive is one of the verb's moods rather than cases or clauses. Conjunctive is another word for the same mood.
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In Swedish it would be “Jag önskar att du inte åte myror”, with a very old fashioned subjunctive
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Tonight on The Learning Channel, we meet a boy who gets particularly interesting cravings!
Is there a difference between the given translation and 'My parents do not like you to eat ants"?
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I'd translate yours into Mina föräldrar vill inte att du ska äta myror and say that it does not state that you are in fact eating ants already, which the sentence on top here does. But I've got to admit I'm not a native English speaker and I haven't spoken any language for 75 years.
Arnauti, that perfectly explains the difference. "My parents do not like that you eat ants" is not incorrect in "American" English, but it seems a bit odd to us. I think the translation that we are most comfortable with is "My parents don't like THE FACT that you eat ants. By the way, your writing in English (like most young Swedes that I've met) is spot on. Okay, not quite, as I've yet to catch you in a grammatical or spelling mistake, which I can't say for many of the native speakers writing here. ;-)
If there is a difference it eludes an English speaker of 75 years. Your version is more natural, I hope you have reported it. "...do not like your eating ants" is correct but pedantic. There was a time when chocolate covered ants were all the rage.
it looked like voorouders in dutch. (fore-parents i guess) with ouders meaning parents. So ancestors, the ones that have gone before your parents. I fell for that one ( just as I did with stunde, thinking of the german word hour)
Does äldrar mean anything in swedish? The elderly perhaps or elders as in wise people?
I put "My parents don't like it if you eat ants." Is this not a correct translation? It feels valid to me.
No. If it were, there would be an "om" ("if") in the Swedish sentence as well.
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I have heard that some places coat them in chocolate and sell them! Full of amino acids, apparently. Not something which I plan on exploring, however.
In English English this translation would not be correct. You would have to put "do not like it that you eat ants" or one of the alternatives below.
Yes, of course. The system is supposed to handle that automatically, but sometimes it's buggy.
though some Chinese native elders think ants could improve men's strength...
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eat or is eating. Why is: is eating wrong here? I thought there is no difference in Swedish?
That's true, but you need "are eating" rather than "is eating" with "you".
Why is don't wrong? and it is grammatically correct in english to use don't or do not?
