"Barnen gråter."

Translation: The children are crying.

[Frozenecho]

How are we supposed to know it's "the children are crying" and not "the child is crying" ? I've seen this brought up before but non of the defining solutions are present (such as a definitive plural like dina or sina)

[olshansky]

Ett barn = a child

Barn = children

Barnet = the child

Barnen = the children

[deactivated user]

tysm

[NeoTubNinja]

I know this means "Thank you so much", but the letters remind me of "Tack så mycket" as well.

[Amun_Ra_]

Haha that's what i was thinking of until you pointed out it was Thank You So Much. I wasn't thinking in English! XD

[AshleyWill591816]

Me too :)

[Rob396024]

the words are cognates

[JohnHoward92]

It's because it is an ett word

[AnnieYakov]

Does gråter mean cry as weep or cry as shout?

[Hashmush]

Weep

[EquanimousLingo]

Sounds like Spanish word "gritar", to scream..

[Joe239703]

In modern Scots this translates to "The bairns are greeting" fun fact

[darren8221]

Is it true that "gråter" sounds like "g'oder"?

[Hashmush]

No. Where did you hear that?

[darren8221]

From a near-broken speaker. I changed to my headphone and it's what I thought it should be now. :)

[Gersois]

My recording sounded like g'oder or gjorter on my otherwise fine speakers! I had no clue what it was supposed to be.

[Kaens]

I'm crying too, what is this göter-like TTS... Google translate reads it right, at least. http://sv.forvo.com/word/gr%C3%A5ter/#sv

[schneeofschnee]

Now I'm crying too ;-;

[smolbeanyboo]

This is such a weird sentence!

[AlekseyOm]

etymologically, my answer 'the children are sad' should be right

[sixangryeels]

You don't have to be sad to cry

[Hashmush]

Why?