"Vem som helst som arbetar med barn vet vad jag pratar om."
Translation:Anyone who works with children knows what I am talking about.
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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...
Anyone, someone, somebody, nobody, and no-one are treated as singular in English.
You would say "Does anyone know?" but "Everyone knows..." It seems to depend on whether it is in a question.
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"?
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It has to be Vem som helst som. If you say just Vem som helst arbetar med barn, that means Anyone works with children.
i think kanner is know someone, while vet is know something; the mods should have the last word here though
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.
I'd translate vet as "to know" as in acknowledge and känner as in knowing the concept/structure of something/someone
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)."
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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.
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I think I did not understand the role of "som" here. I thought it means "like" or "as".
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.
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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.
