"Vem som helst som arbetar med barn vet vad jag pratar om."

Translation: Anyone who works with children knows what I am talking about.

[Haesselmaas]

I know this course is about Swedish, not English, but I have to ask; Is "Anyone" singular or plural and how am I supposed to know what ending I should give "knows"? Both "know" and "knows" sound correct in my head...

[Jitt91]

Here is a good explanation: http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000027.htm

[NatalieBoa3]

Anyone, someone, somebody, nobody, and no-one are treated as singular in English.

[NatalieBoa3]

You would say "Does anyone know?" but "Everyone knows..." It seems to depend on whether it is in a question.

[Steph.Ro]

"Does anyone know?" is also a singular - as seen in does.

[person222222]

Would it be possible to say "Vem som helst arbeter med barn" to mean "Whoever works with children" or does it have to be "Vem som helst som"?

[Arnauti]

It has to be Vem som helst som. If you say just Vem som helst arbetar med barn, that means Anyone works with children.

[ErixTheRed]

I heard no "d" in "med". Is that how it's pronounced?

[Arnauti]

Yes, in normal speech we usually swallow the d.

[AlberPopov]

phrasing!

[Lepidolite1]

Smallest "fridge magnets" question I've seen so far.

[Kreilyn]

Is there any difference between känner and vet ...?
Tack..!

[bogdanmateescu]

i think kanner is know someone, while vet is know something;
the mods should have the last word here though

[NatalieBoa3]

I'm not a mod and nor am I Swedish or have even visited Sweden but I think it's spelled känner. But otherwise I think you're right.

[hardrockhamster]

I'd translate vet as "to know" as in acknowledge and känner as in knowing the concept/structure of something/someone

[NatalieBoa3]

Tack. But I need more concrete examples to understand what that means. Because I am sure I have seen vet where you couldn't substitute "acknowledge".
Is vet is having superficial knowledge that something is so, whereas känner is more of a deeper immersive understanding?
Eg. in the English sentences "I know (of) her" vs "I know her (personally)."

[Erika.grg]

Why not "vem som helst vem....." since vem is who.

[Arnauti]

That who is a relative pronoun, and vem in Swedish is only used as a question word.
So e.g. 'The man who sold the world' would be Mannen som sålde världen – you couldn't use vem in that position.

[dcounts]

What a wonderful sentence.

[JosVictorA7]

I think I did not understand the role of "som" here. I thought it means "like" or "as".

[NatalieBoa3]

I guess it can mean which or who too?

[Mek6oI]

Would it be possible to say "... vet om vad jag pratar"?

[JudyOlsonB]

If programmers ever see this, the answer boxes cover the sentence.

[P3TE-Ja]

I was marked incorrect for contacting "I am" to "I'm", is that intended?

[NatalieBoa3]

I'm not sure. I think I learnt in school that such contractions should not be used in very formal or legalistic writing but here it probably ought to be accepted if it isn't.

[Arnauti]

No, that's supposed to be accepted automatically. What happens a lot though is that the machine reacts to one error but highlights something else entirely. Or it could just be a temporary glitch.

[JulianBrem1]

The computer voice had a small stroke reading that one.

[Steph.Ro]

In another question, where I only have to translate vem som helst both anyone and whoever are allowed. Should I rather go with anyone, as whoever who works with children... obviously doesn't work and I'd always leave out som.

In an answer a few years ago Arnauti explained that leaving out som would result in anyone works with children but seeing as Swedish doesn't have a progressive form, couldn't this also be translated as anyone working with children which would then fit with the sentence in this task and not require som?