"Rocken har inte knappar."
Translation:The coat does not have buttons.
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Yup. Rocken har inga knappar.
However, we are quite adamant on keeping the distinction of inte/inga and not/no in translations.
Google went with the alternate translation - Rock music has no buttons. :) Just another reason to learn the language instead of counting on a translator.
Nowadays it says "rocker is not scarce"
Nice to see google translate has improved over the past few years. x3
Well now its the rock does not have buttons so actually not TOO far off. Well, coats and rocks are slightly different but such is life
I think it's right,but the correct answer is"The coat does not have buttons."
In german the exact same word rock means skirt. Can it have that meaning in swedish too?
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Well, the german "Rock" can also mean a kind of coat with a seam at the waist, but that's a historical piece of clothing. In modern usage it always means "skirt". Still a good mnemonic, though. See http://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrenrock
Yup. Or "Bratrock". I've been using images from the Chereau "Ring of the Nibelung" to memorize the Swedish usage. (And if, as mentioned below, the Swedish "rock" only applies to males that would seem to indicate that the usage is very closely related).
What is the difference between a jacket and a coat? In English, I might assume that a coat will be longer or more formal. Does this interpretation hold true in Swedish?
Yes, it does. Note that a female coat is normally not called "rock" but "kappa" though.
Inte is an adverb, while inga is the plural of ingen, a pronoun meaning no/nobody/nothing. As noted above, you can say Rocken har inga knappar for "The coat has no buttons." But for the coat does not have buttons, it's negating the verb rather than using a pronoun, so you need inte.
In Tinycards Duolingo Swedish Course "en rock" = "a long coat", but "The long coat..." is not accepted here.
I wish the typo system was less forgiving, because I can put down the wrong word and itll be like oh well, its a typo like no I spelled it wrong and I want to spell it roght
Have you never made a spelling mistake and realized only after clicking check? Because loosing lifes for that it literally the most annoying thing ever. The typo system is perfect as it is. Yes, sometimes you may type the wrong word, but it tells you what you did wrong, so what's the deal?
I thought it would be "Rocken har knappar inte" because you put "inte" at the end?
There's no rule about putting "inte" at the end. It goes after the inflected verb, before objects and additional verbs.