"Mannen och pojken läser böcker."

Translation: The man and the boy are reading books.

[Beckari]

Why has the spelling changed from bok to bocker? Why is a c added?

[amasarany]

Irregular plurals

[LaneV88]

I put "the man and the boy read books" and it said it has to be "ARE READING". this (at least in English is not correct; "read" works just fine

[devalanteriel]

That's odd - it's certainly accepted.

[LaneV88]

Weird. Yeah I tried like 3x and kept getting it wrong so I finally sucked it up and typed what they insisted on.

[Marlie983518]

same here

[mattheworb]

I'm sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere, but it feels like the pleural definite of this would be "böckerna", but is it?

[annika_a]

Books = böcker

The books = böckerna

[mattheworb]

that's what i thought, tack!

[ColinFulha]

Why did the umlaut pop up?

[sotnosen93]

It's an irregular verb, so that's just how it's spelled.

[Darpir]

Also in German the work book is irregular: Buch / Bücher

[coral199625]

Iwhy was my translation the man snd the boy read books marked wrong Tack .

[devalanteriel]

Probably because you put "snd" instead of "and". The correct spelling is accepted.

[Woodalington]

I think they should make difinatives and plurals the same lesson so you can learn which is which. As a dyslexic it's hard for me to learn the difference between a object, the object and object plurals since there is usually the are only one or two letters difference.

[devalanteriel]

With all due respect, the reason they're not taught in the same lesson is that this would make things much, much harder to follow for the vast majority of learners.

[Ismellbroke]

could this also be 'The man and the boy read books'?

[devalanteriel]

Certainly. :)