"Rocken har inte knappar."

Translation: The coat does not have buttons.

[koronos]

Is it possible to say the coat has no buttons?

[Zmrzlina]

Yup. Rocken har inga knappar.

However, we are quite adamant on keeping the distinction of inte/inga and not/no in translations.

[Hrafnunga]

Google went with the alternate translation - Rock music has no buttons. :)
Just another reason to learn the language instead of counting on a translator.

[Some_Bluuu3]

Nowadays it says "rocker is not scarce"

Nice to see google translate has improved over the past few years. x3

[MyUsernameIsAdam]

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

[MarcoisGlucklich]

Well, you can't argue with that anyway!

[Tcaminal]

what does inga means?

[Hrafnunga]

It means no or nothing whereas inte means not.

[Tcaminal]

Tack så mycket

[Tcaminal]

I don't understand in which case you need to use one or other sorry

[Hrafnunga]

inte negates verbs, inga negates nouns.

[Sally.Yan]

I think it's right,but the correct answer is"The coat does not have buttons."

[thiessss]

In german the exact same word rock means skirt. Can it have that meaning in swedish too?

[Anrui]

No, rock only means coat in Swedish.

[HelenCarlsson]

And rock :).

[Kaens]

:) ett? en?

[HelenCarlsson]

Well, the rock = rocken but normally it's without article :).

[Orgulas]

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

[Baba7249]

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).

[iridescental]

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?

[HelenCarlsson]

Yes, it does. Note that a female coat is normally not called "rock" but "kappa" though.

[iridescental]

thanks!

[shelle871]

Why is "Inga" wrong when the sentence is about more than one button?

[Hrafnunga]

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.

[shelle871]

Thank you! :)

[TimK77777]

In Tinycards Duolingo Swedish Course "en rock" = "a long coat", but "The long coat..." is not accepted here.

[johninbigd]

I just came here because of that very issue! I said "the long coat" here because of the translation in Tinycards.

[MyUsernameIsAdam]

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