"Hon använder sin bok."
Translation:She uses her book.
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the translation of this sentence would be also like ( she uses her own book ) right ?
to understand that it is her book not another girl s book
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Yes. If it were another girl's book, it would be -- Hon använder hennes bok.
Is that a normal thing to say? "she uses her book" I'm not sure i "use" books, i read them. Maybe it's fine, it just doesn't sound natural to me.
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It sounds natural to me. A student asks me a a question in class and I say, "Use your book to find the answer." It isn't just reading; they might be looking up something in the index or table of contents. It could be finding something on a timeline or in a caption (like in a Social Studies book). Broadening that, perhaps someone has a nonfiction book and I just need a quick answer - I am not going to ask if I can read their book, because that implies I want to read a lot of it. I am going to ask if I can use their book for a minute.
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I think she uses it level the table ;)
Hon använder boken för att... ??? Hjälp! Hur säger man det på svenska?
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People in the US say it a lot, especially in school. Like you use your text book in class. You use your book to study. You use your book to cheat. Etc. (Don't cheat, by the way! :D )
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Sin can only point back to the subject of the sentence so it can't mean his when the subject is she.
I understand sin is used for both genders. But why can it be hennes bok? it doesn't accept that as an answer. reasons?
If you get the reverse sentence (translate from English into Swedish), both are accepted. But hennes has a different meaning here - sin = her own, hennes = some other female's.
Sin can be either his, her or its. It just refers back so the third-person subject.
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In word «använder« 3rd sound that I heard it's [d]. It sound a little different on forvo http://forvo.com/word/anv%C3%A4nder/#sv How it sounds actually?
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I translated it as such "she uses his book" and it says wrong answer! Well I have learned that "sin" means his/her!
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That's true. I thought also she uses HIS book (even though I could have typed HER instead). But without more information we couldn't know if it had to be his or her. Apparently it is the girl who uses her book and not some one elses book... :/
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In Swedish, we do know that it's her own book here. sin can only point back to the subject in the same clause.
So where the English sentence She reads her book is ambiguous – she could be reading her book or some other girl's book, the Swedish sentence Hon läser sin bok is not – it's always her own book. If she reads another female person's book, we say Hon läser hennes bok. And if she reads 'his' book, we say Hon läser hans bok.
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Don't feel bad, that could not have been correct :)
See my answer to SDvT89 earlier in this thread.
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No it isn't. To begin with, in German, they change for gender even if they refer to the person's own book:
'Er liest sein Buch' but 'Sie liest ihr Buch' whereas in Swedish, if it's his/her own book, we'll say Han/Hon läser sin bok – with sin in both cases.
And secondly, just like in English, 'Er liest sein Buch' and 'Sie liest ihr Buch' are ambiguous – they could mean either that he/she reads his/her own book, or the book of some other person of the same gender. But in Swedish, we do know it's his/her own book with sin. If 'he' reads the book of some other male, we would say Han läser hans bok.
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Ah ja ! ich verstehe besser. Wouah... it is going to be hard for me, poor French flicka :-(
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Is the "s" in "sin" pronounced "s" or "sh"? The recordings go back and forth.
Yes and no. Many people do, others don't. It's quite common to merge the sounds when one word ends with an r, and the next starts with an s. In this case, I'd say it mostly depends on how much you actually articulate the r in använder. If you don't, there's no reason to merge the sounds. But most people do, so it's quite common.
sin reflects back to the same person, so that doesn't work unless the person changes gender mid-sentence. :)
I've noticed the ä has different sounds depending on where it is used. Can anyone explain this to me?
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"sin" sounds like "shin" in the sentence but not when pronounced individually, is this correct?
