"Pojken och flickan äter äpplen."

Translation: The boy and the girl are eating apples.

[PandaPandaInnit]

This has to be the most sneakiest "och" yet. It's so faint in the audio, it's like trying to listen to a mouse fart, from the other room!

[Honden123]

Can someone please remind me what the translation of "the apple" is? Is the only difference between apples and the apples the dots on the 'a'? (a/ä)

[IroniaIntriseca]

An apple = ett äpple, the apple = äpplet, apples = äpplen :)

[amsyarzero]

tack sa mycket!

[Aya101823]

Is it that some plural forms end with n and others end with r, how are you suppose to know?... Also why ater here means eat, but not are eating! I can not see the grammar rule here!

[David383615]

There are some rules for the plural forms (like if it ends on vowels or consonants and if it's an "en" or an "ett" word.
A continuous form (to be ...ing) does not exist in swedish, so it depends on the context if it has to be translated into english with present or present progressive.

[David646889]

Could this also translate to, "The boy and the girl are eating apples"?

[devalanteriel]

Yes, absolutely.

[TrashCubed]

A contiuous form doesnt exist in Swedish, right? So would translating this to "Are eating" be correct too?

[devalanteriel]

Exactly like that.

[PotatoBarg]

Then how do you say the apples or the boys?

[devalanteriel]

äpplena and pojkarna, respectively.

[Palme2034]

Why not ,,are eating"?