"Det är kockens kniv."
Translation:It is the cook's knife.
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I'm so impressed with how much I've improved on listening to spoken Swedish since I began learning (with just a little bit of previous experience in Swedish). I absolutely love this website.
I've never spoken or heard Swedish before 2 days ago. Now I can actually understand what they are saying and it's really awesome!
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That's actually super cool! Duolingo makes learning languages so easy! Aside from the fact that you can only read the rules about grammar and such when you're on a computer, so mobile users get very confused.
Actually, if you google duolingo.com instead of using the app, you can go in and see the rules, all on your phone. I do it all the time.
It should be "cook's" not "cooks".could be reason for the rejection (but this course is apparently full of bugs where this distinction isn't made)
Det doesn't refer to the knife here. Instead, it's the same kind of det used in det regnar ("it rains"). It is there because any Swedish sentence requires a subject. And in constructions like this, det regnar and det finns ("there is"), it's always det.
Maybe it could be compared to French il y a always being il even if you'd say il y a une pomme.
Does that make it a little bit clearer?
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Just like in English, though. Every english sentence requires a subject. Nothing special.
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it's "det är kockens kniv" and it means "it is THE cook's knife" because kocken means the cook (en kock = a cook, kocken = the cook). So it's not "the knife" but "the cook" :) Hope it's clear. :)
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How would you say ''It is the edge of the knife'' and such sentences where both of the nouns are objects? We have learned how to say ''The X's Y'', but how to say ''The X of the Y'', if it exists in Swedish language too?
Thank you very much!
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We use various prepositions for those. In this case, we'd say eggen på kniven. på is used in many cases, but there are many other cases where other prepositions are used. Like 'a map of Sweden' is en karta över Sverige. If you have to guess, go for på. It's only very rarely av.
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it keeps saying I'm wrong because i don't put "It is the cook s knife" with a space between the cook and the s. Does anyone else have that problem?
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No. Because it specifically says "Det är" (which means "it is") before "kockens kniv" which means the cook's knife.
Thank you. So does that mean for every singular definite possessive you just add the en or et ending followed by an 's'.
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Wow this was a while ago, tbh I never really understood the difference until now, was mainly wondering if där är was a possible combination of words, since they are both pronounced almost identically and it would be slightly awkward to say, there's a few English word combinations like that, can't think of any but I know there are. So basically one is existential and the other is more superficial.