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"De betalar tio miljoner för hotellet."
Translation:They pay ten million for the hotel.
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Ten million for the hotel in this case, I'd think, not for a room. :)
In english you don't have to, but I assume you have to pluralize the thousand, million, billion or whatever in cases like this? "två miljoner" as opposed to "två miljon"?
Yes, miljon/miljard (million/billion) has to be pluralized when referring to more than one. Tusen (thousand) doesnt need that though, so it's just "tre tusen kronor", for example.
So, what numbers are not plural? Så, vad nummer är plural inte? (Was that right?)
No, that's Vilka nummer är inte plural? or Vad för, but not just Vad.
Is it colloquial to say this? Should we include the word dollars as in English?
Monopoly (or Monopol in Swedish) is much cheaper than that! The most expensive property is Norrmalmstorg, which will cost you 8 000 kr to purchase. :)
Either you made an error or there was a bug. Given the lack of complexity in this sentence, I'm inclined to believe the latter.
Ten million SEK for an hotel honestly doesn't sound that expensive. :)
Sure, depends on the hotel. I think that would be very, very cheap for a lot of hotels as well. :)
No, that would mean they're at the hotel, paying ten million for something unspecified.
It's only idiomatic (if not grammatical) in English to put the object last here.
In American English, it would be more common to say either: ‘They are paying’ ( if in the process of buying) or: ‘ They paid ‘ ( if they’ve already bought the hotel. ) ‘They pay’ is just odd.
The infinitive is in American English too.
"A couple wins the lottery. They decide to buy a hotel. They pay ten million for the hotel."
My understanding is that the course uses the infinitive as the suggested translation because Swedish doesn't have a separate present tense, and it's important to remember that the Swedish words you're using are not specifying present tense—you need to be careful what you say so people know you're talking about the present, not a story that happened some other time or a habit you practice regularly.
Thank you, that makes sense. I was wondering why my answer of ‘They are paying’ was marked wrong.
Am I the only one who finds the English sentence awkward at best or were those among the many deleted comments. "They are paying..." sounds much more natural to my American ears at least.
That's accepted as a mutual default. The deleted comments are mostly natives arguing about "million".
