"Nu är det för sent!"
Translation:Now it is too late!
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It's "är det" instead of "det är" because it's preceded by "Nu." Am I correct?
The word order there doesn't sound very natural. The other order I'd agree with is: "It is too late now"
I don't think it is too unnatural, like ''Is it now too late to book a room?'' sounds fairly natural to me.
Ashley, I find "It is now too late" equally acceptable, though it is perhaps not the most common usage these days; it might sound a little more British, in fact. I can imagine myself (and have probably said) "It is now too late to catch the 12:03 train" and so on. [I'm a 60-something American writer, and have lived abroad--Britain (10), Asia (5) and Sweden (2) for the past seventeen years.]
I'm doing it 1 minutes to midnight while I havent reached my daily goal :D
It is, though swedes usually set nu on the first place, so it sounds little unusual to them when you set it elsewhere, I guess. Especially in short sentences where it is necessary to put an ephasis on nu. T.ex.: Nu kör vi! Nu kommer vi att äta.
I've often noticed the voice pronouncing s's as "sh" when the word is part of a sentence or long phrase. What are the rules for when this is permitted?
It's not the 'S' that gets changed -- it's the combination of R+S = the SH sound. Making up an example, 'nars' would be 'narsh' and so on. When the R is at the end of the word and the next begins with S, they are combined--as in the lesson sentence here: 'för sent' becomes 'furshent' (if I can make up my own way of thinking of it). I am not an expert, just a learner, so others may well correct or add to this, of course. ;-)
Again, I guess this is the adjective instead of the adverb form in this sentence?
if i say nu det ar for sent would that be referring to an object? now IT is too late? instead of just referring to like the time is too late
A pair of words to the pronunciation: isn't the letter cluster r+s always read as sh? Is this rule optional so that it is voiced here as rs? Why t in sent is not pronounced? It that also correct?