"De ringer mig om hon dör under natten."
Translation:They will call me if she dies during the night.
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I said "if she dies in the night" which I would definitely say so I think that should be accepted
Ditto. It's slightly more conversational but would be chosen by the majority of English speakers.
Would this work: "They will call me if she dies overnight." Sometimes we say this too in English.
Same question about the translation of 'under natten'. According to the Merriam Webster 'overnight' can be synonym of 'during the night'.
Swedish will sometimes use present tense for actions in the near future, in this case during the oncoming night.
As in English. "I'll tell you when I'm done". Literally translating from French, I'm tempted to say "I'll tell you when I'll be done". But I learnt not to ^^
Wow, all of the sentences are quite dark! This one, 'Vad tror prästen på?' 'Jag vill inte att du dör!' geez folks lighten up
Why does it not accept the following: "they will ring me if she dies during the night" ring and call are the same in this context right?
Based on other DL discussions, it seems that sometimes, especially if it is specific to UK English (DL being mostly American English-based), a usage/variation has to be reported a fair amount before it's accepted. Go ahead and report it; maybe it will be added down the road.
Or "they're calling me..." English, too, uses the present to express a future action occasionally, especially a conditional one; in this context i would explain it by saying that the situation wherein they may call is itself current, even though the call is in the future.
how is 'will' translated in this Swedish sentence? Shouldn't there be 'ska' or 'kommer att'?
English and Swedish deal with the future quite similarly. It's possible to express it using modal phrases like "will", "shall", "going to", "ska", "kommer att" and so on, but both languages also allow you to use the straight present tense to express the future. So in English it would be totally normal and colloquial to say "They're ringing me if she dies in the night", and the Swedish sentence is the same — formally it's in the present, but it refers to the future.
Thank you for your answer. But since it is possible both in English and in Swedish to use the present for something in the future, wouldn't it make more sence to do so with the preferred translation too then? They're ringing me if she dies in the night
Report it, maybe? It seems like a valid translation to me, maybe if enough people report it they'll accept it.
I don't contribute to the course so I'm only speculating here but it feels to me as though maybe the reason they did it the way they did is that the present tense construction in English is quite informal. Like, it's something you'd say to a friend but not a policeman, perhaps, whereas the Swedish version might be more likely to turn up in a formal context.
I think there might also be a didactic purpose — they're underlining the point that it's expressing the future.
Sound engine here not made for long sentances like this one. Sound horrible.
Sadly, I don't think "why" ever helps much with this sort of thing, especially with prepositions which never match up very well from language to language. You just have to learn where they're different, and eventually you begin to get a sort of sense of how they work.
"They will call me if she dies IN the night" is still not accepted. Strange.
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"They ring me if she dies at night" why isn't that accepted when that is what the sentence says? 20210826
"...during the night..." means a specific night, probably tonight. But "...at night..." could mean any night, maybe twenty years from now.
"They will ring me if she dies in the night" should definitely be accepted
