"Ser du min kalender?"
Translation:Do you see my calendar?
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How about "Have you seen my calendar?". It seems like a more natural translation to me.
That would be Har du sett min kalender? A good sentence in Swedish too. The one above, Ser du min kalender? could also be translated as Can you see my calendar?
Ahh, I keep forgetting to use the verb tense as a cue. "have you see my calendar" doesn't make any sense! Tack!
I agree. The "correct" answer is extremely unnatural. Its not like the calendar walked around to another place. It might make sense it they had used keys or sweater, something you actually move and often leave in random places (do you see my keys? Do you see my coat?). But kalendrar is a really strange item to use as an example, calendars often dont change places, it's why our brain "fixes" it to "have you seen" which is how you ask about things that are lost or out of their place. "Have you seen my car?" "Have you seen John?"
Swedish and US English use "calendar/kalender" to mean "diary" (British English). In the UK, a calendar is only a more static thing- up on the wall (or on a desk) for the whole year.
American English does not use calendar to mean diary, at least not in my 67 years of experience. Or perhaps it's that we use "diary" differenty. A diary is where you write your private thoughts, like a journal. Maybe you mean what we would call a "day-timer" or pocket calendar....two countries divided by a common tongue!
Well, think of it this way, if you're a really busy person and someone asks you to do something, you could respond with, "No way! Do you see my calendar?!?"
Can kalender in Swedish also mean the contents of one's calendar like in English? Such that in the right tone, this sentence would mean "I'm extremely busy" or something of the sort?
Wad about to ask the same thing (in a Chandler-esque voice): "have you SEEN my calendar?" :)
Is this a natural way of asking if somebody knows the whereabouts of the concrete object, calendar, or just a made-up example to teach the word "kalender"?
Pretty sure it's the second one. First of all, who even uses physical calendars. And second of all, why would someone take or move someone else's calendar? Its not like you randomly decide to borrow a calendar and walk around with it.
Sounds like: Do you see me my calendar? That is how much time I have to deal with your stupid shit.
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Is a kalendar a diary? Otherwise this question is odd from an native english speaker perspective.
It is a diary in UK English. US English is the same as Swedish (calendar means appointment book/diary as well as static wall/desk calendar).
Because it needs to be present tense, not past. "Did you see...." would be "Såg du..."