"Du har flera jackor."
Translation:You have several jackets.
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you say many if you talk about something that you have in a big amount. like: 100 jackets. that is many. but when you talk about 3 jackets, it is several. you cannot say many because its just 3. so flera = several, not many.
'many' would translate to 'många'. But I do understand the confusion here. Atleast in Swedish the line between 'flera' and 'många' is bot crystal clear. Maybe it's more distinct in English. That I don't know, though.
no unfortunately its not. You use 'some' with non-countable nouns. nouns that are always singular. such as: i have 'some' money in my pocket, or i usually drink 'some' coffee in the morning.
That's not quite true. You can use "some" with count-nouns too, e.g. "I've bought some biscuits". But "some" doesn't put the emphasis on the plurality in the way that "several" and "flera" do (several = more than two but not very many), so that "some" is not the best translation here.
Iäm going to stick my head out and say several is not a word that I use daily in English. I just don't think that the clear distinction that our Swedish friends see between flera and många exists in English, or at least to anything like the extent that is being described here, I think Duo is splitting hairs here. "A few" jackets, "quite a few jackets", "many jackets", all of those could describe five jackets, not a hundred. What does everybody think?
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I can't speak for everybody. However, you might want to add "several" to your everyday vocabulary. It's a clear way of saying you mean more than two of something, but less than many of something.
I disagree,,,flera is used when one says , I speak several languages, and manga is : I speak many languages. several= flera.; manga=many we do use both in english often.
Shouldn’t “coats” be acceptable as well as “jackets”? Many of the things I see sold as “jackor” here would usually be called coats, at least in the US — jackets refers most often to formalwear, coats to outerwear.
In this course, we are trying to keep the distinction between jackor = jackets which would ideally be things like leather jackets, bomber jackets etc and rockar = coats which would ideally be like trench coats or overcoats. Image google those words to see what I mean.
also a jacket is the size of a sweater midbody , and a coat can cover full length body, winter coat for example. quite different.
jackets are shorter than coats , you use a jacket in a suit formal for a wedding) or leather bomber jacket with jeans ,,,coats seem more like the long things to use in winter.Never heard of a short coat.
Why is plural jackOR and not jackAR or jackER? I ask because of the rule for plural for en words. One-syllable words can take either -ar or -er, usually the former. en hund → hundar en färg → färger and -a → -or en kvinna → kvinnor en gata → gator
Is it exception or i didn't understand well? Tack :)
Here is a good link to a Wikipedia page on Swedish grammar that helped me with this and several other questions I had like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_grammar
The short answer to your question is "Jacket used to be a feminine-gender noun." Thus, like kvinna and flicka (woman and girl), the plural is /-or.
Now, the next excellent question is: How do we know if a noun used to be feminine- or masculine-gender? The answer is "Usually, you don't." It's a memorization thing. =(
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Yes, both were female a very long time ago, with "a" as singular ending and "or" as plural ending.
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Maybe it is more natural to say "several jackets" in Swedish ;-). Several is more than 2 - something between 3 and 6 depending of the thing you are talking about - but less than many.
Hallo there! What i hear is: "Du ha(r) flera yaγko(r)". What i put as a third letter at jackor is the third letter of the greek alphabet γ.
its true that the swedish "j" sounds much like our "y"= you ; but we are learning Swedish, so you have to accept their pronunciations and not question too much! LOL
complete misspelling of a sentence. Why don't you have several (or many) jackets?
I put: you have many jackets; got it wrong because it should be "several",not "many". to me its the same. what do you think?
The definition of "several" is usually something like "more than a few but fewer than many". While it can mean "many" dialectally, it doesn't in any larger standard English, so we maintain the difference in the course since Swedish flera / många has the same distinction.
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That was not my question. My question is, is there a synonym for "several". "Many" or "a lot" don't mean "several".
several seems less than many , or a lot. A certain number of ....