"Kockarna tycker om jordgubbarna."

Translation: The cooks like the strawberries.

[Jan-Olav]

Jordgubbar are garden strawberries while wild strawberries are called smultron.

[josclag]

jordgubbar are "old men of the earth" also known as strawberries

[Voenskjall]

A quick question:

En kock - A cook

Kock|en - The cook

Kock|ar - Cooks

Kock|ar|na - The cooks

^ are these words correct please?
Thank you very much!

[DarkMoonFire]

Yes, they are correct. :)

[Voenskjall]

Thank you for your help again, DarkMoonFire!

[DarkMoonFire]

Varsågod! You are welcome :)

[Lickerish]

I entered 'Kockarna gillar jordgubbarna' but it did not accept it.
Is there a grammar rule that requires the use of 'tycker om' instead of 'Gillar'?

Thanks.

[asehgal]

You have to translate to english

[auraheinz1]

Why does "the cooks like strawberries" get marked wrong? I don't understand the difference.

[devalanteriel]

If you skip the "the" in "the strawberries", it just means they like strawberries in general. But if you do include it, it means they like some specific strawberries. And the difference is the same in Swedish.

[Oberich]

That is confusing. You mean they like e.g. the strawberries on the table. But how do I tell the difference, I lost so many hearts to this confusing use of "the"....

[devalanteriel]

-na is a definite suffix, so it almost always corresponds to "the" in English. It's the same with kockarna.

[HLazer]

Is this as in a crush?!

[mirilz1]

The right answer that i wrote was marked as a mistake

[GlennaJo]

The ar in kockarna sounds like an e at both speeds. Is this how it is pronounced? Rs seem to 'disappear' in a number of Swedish words... Then again English is my mother tongue so who am I to complain about that. ;-)

[devalanteriel]

No, it should be a short a.