"Mina döttrars barn är mina barnbarn."
Translation:My daughters' children are my grandchildren.
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How can you tell when it is 1. My daughters' children are my grandchildren vs. 2. My daughters' child is my grandchild?
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Assuming that you mean daughter's and not daughters' in the second sentence, it would be
- Mina döttrars barn är mina barnbarn.
- Min dotters barn är mitt barnbarn.
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The plural possessive "daughters'" is the clue that barn is plural and not singular - unless your daughters share one child.
And "daughters'" would not include daughter-in-law, right? If one refers to one's daughter and her same-sex partner both as "daughters" this very confusion could arise. (I admit that even without the separate word for "daughter-in-law" this is an edge case.)
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I think "great grandmother" can be "mormorsmor," "farmorsmor," "farfarsmor," or "morfarsmor"? "Maternal grandmother's mother," "paternal grandmother's mother," "paternal grandfather's mother," and "maternal grandfather's mother," respectively?
Also, "great grandchild" is "barnbarnsbarn," or "grandchild's child." I think you add an s after each set of two, so long as there's another word after it. Mormorsfarfar, barnbarnsbarnbarnsbarn, farmorsmormorsfarfarsmorfarsmor, etc.
I might be wrong, though, I'm still pretty new at this! Sorry for any misinformation!
i'm understanding that for adding the word 'grand' to a relative just repeats the word?
Not necessarily the same word. For "child" it seems so, but for grandparents the first bit specifies which side of the family they're on.
farfar = father's father = paternal grandfather farmor = father's mother = paternal grandmother
And similar for the mother's side.
I could not find a way to ask this without actually comeing into one of these lessons chats.
Google translate was not helpful. I want to sing my son songs in swedish. How would I say "twinkle twinkle little star how i wonder what ypu are"?
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Courtesy of my Swedish fiancé: "Blinka, blinka lilla stjärna, hur jag undrar vad du är."
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It's Blinka lilla stjärna där. The rest of the text is here: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinka_lilla_stj%C3%A4rna
So why isn't barn a single child? What in the sentence makes it children?
Because it's "daughters." The assumption is that multiple daughters do not have one single child between them.
If it was a single child, the person would say, "My daughter's child. Daughter would be singular, not plural.
"Barn" cannot be "child" because, later in the sentence, the same people are referred to as "grandchildren." So that shows that there is more than one child.
In the available answers, the apostrophe is missing. There was no option to report this. I see the answer listed here is correct.
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I gave exactly the same answer and it was considered wrong!!!! So I can never complete the unit.....