"Flera skådespelerskor har på sig rosa kjolar."
Translation:Several actresses wear pink skirts.
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Bad pronounciation + long phrase + long, hard-to-spell words + listening exercise = -1heart
I knew the word, I just couldn't spell it! I had to go to google translate for the spelling, because I cannot spell that!
All the more reason to be happy that the heart system is on its way out, even if you are unlucky enough to still have to deal with it for now.
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Damn, this comment has aged badly. No offence against you, but as the hearts system has returned to Duolingo on mobile...
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Honestly, turn off listening exercises and use something else like memrise for listening exercises. Duolingos speaking and listening exercises are terrible.
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It depends on whether a TTS is used for the listening exercises (or for the oral speech in general, also to read out the sentences to one) or the creators recorded themselves reading out the sentences aloud. In the minor-language courses, many of them did, including the recently launched Yiddish course. The problem with the TTS voices is that many are underperforming indeed. I prefer listening to radio programmes in my target languages, it's much better than those type-in-what-you-hear exercises.
I vote you remove this one from the "type what you hear" task. ;)
is there a different word for "actors" as opposed to "actresses"? it marked my answer wrong when i typed "actors"
Yes, 'actors' are skådespelare. We often speak about female actors as skådespelare too, but since it's skådespelerskor in Swedish here it should be actresses in English and vice versa.
I disagree. Many English speakers don't use the word "actress" in English anymore, even if many Swedish speakers use the corresponding word in Swedish. Consider the word "manageress", which I have heard Brits use as recently as the 1980s, but which would likely sound ridiculous to most North American English speakers. If the German course told me that "manager" was incorrect in translating "Managerin", I'd feel similarly.
If "grandmother" is OK for both "farmor" and "mormor", then certainly "actor" is OK for both "skådespelare" and "skådespelerska".
I think we probably use skådespelerskor less in Swedish than you use actresses in English though. Otherwise I could have agreed with you.
I think 'skådespelerskor' is one of those Swedish words which i am going to give up on.
No, it's from French actrice. That and Spanish actriz are both from Latin actrix.
Do you know how to say nurse in Swedish? You'll give up on that one too....
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In Swedish, does 'kjolar' always mean 'skirts'?
It's easy to confuse it with the similar Norwegian word for 'dresses'; 'kjoler'.
Oh yes, it is confusing :)!
skirt is "kjol" in Swedish and "nederdel" in Danish ("nederdel" is lower part literally)
dress is "klänning" in Swedish" and "kjole" in Danish
Yes, it's a false friend! It's just as difficult for us too, when learning Norwegian. kjole is a dress in Danish too I think.
That word is a nightmare!! A little bit of "Swenglish" would do nice in here: " en aktor , en aktress"
I can break it down a little for you, if that helps:
- spela = play (verb)
- skåda = watch
- skådespel = play (noun), as in a theatre play
- -erska = female person suffix
So we use the word "play" like English does, but extend it a little. A skådespel is basically a "watched play", so to speak.
The word for actress is very similar to the composition of its german counterpart "schauspielerin"
schau = show =skada spiel= to play -er = a person -in= female suffix
I find it interesting to see how other words have mutated but follow very similar changes when they migrate from one language to another.
@devalenteriel, you are simply awesome. That's a fantastic parsing. Tack så mycket!
This is another word were the S sounds like SH because of an R immediately preceding the S, correct? So it sounds like "shkor"?
On a tangent, wait until sjuksköterska. I am in awe of Swedish compound words, and yet to balance it out there is the simple ö for island. Svenska är kul. Slåss inte! My worst enemy is myself and tpyos...
This word might be the last nail in the coffin on my attempt to learn Swedish.
Just when I'd been delighted by brandman, too.
I feel like "actors" should be accepted. In English "actors" could include female actors and it would be almost incorrect in many contexts to say "actresses".
I got this wrong because i wrote "several actresses wearing pink skirts." What would be the correct way to say that?
I'd go with e.g. flera skådespelerskor som har på sig rosa kjolar.
How come "Flera Skådespelerskor har rosa kjolar på sig." -isn't accepted, but in alot of other examples this structure is fine??!
We do accept that, but this thread is for the "translate into English" and "type what you hear" exercises.
Ahhh, okej... jag ser vad du säger och förstår varför det fungerar inte.
-Jag har gjort detta misstag tidigare men var inte säker på om detta verkligen var resonemanget för att det var fel.
Tack snälla för förklarar, har en lingot.
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The word 'skadespelerskor' is definitely one of the more difficult words to remember ... and way too long ... as is the word for nurse. Perhaps there are some English words that Swedes find to long as well? Ha!
Probably, but it's less common, since English is less agglutinative and also doesn't write compound nouns together.
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Why my answer isn't correct if i change the order of the words? Flera skådespelerskor har rosa kjolar på sig, instead Flera skådespelerskor har på sig rosa kjolar... ? Both are correct
This is the thread for "type what you hear" (and "translate into English"). You do need to write exactly what the voice says.
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What do you mean? What I see is English and Swedish, respectively; and this is in fact the Swedish course for speakers of English. Hence, what do you mean by wrong language?
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The "actress" has misogynistic and outdated connotations, as does the implication that those identifying themselves as female are the only ones to wear pink skirts. This sentence needs to retired. 20210808
Duolingo Swedish should add a listening exercise that focuses only on the Swedish words for actor and actress. Focus heavily on that first and then later on incorporate those words into sentences.
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I have exactly the correct answer and have been marked incorrect each time. What's going on?