"Jag tycker om mina långsamma morgnar."
Translation:I like my slow mornings.
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I took it as meaning a morning that is relaxed, where you aren't rushing to get anywhere or get things done.
I don't think that sounds completely natural translated directly to Swedish, but it would be somewhere around the lines of "Jag tycker om när mina morgnar är långsamma" (literally: "I like when my mornings are slow").
The difference is that in Duolingo's sentence, it's the slow mornings as a whole you like. The noun and the adjective come as a bundle so to speak. In your sentence, you like your mornings a certain way. The adjective is "added" to the noun.
No, faire la grasse matinée means to sleep in. A slow morning is one where you get up, but there's nothing pressing happening.
We also say a slow day at work when very little happens that's caused stress.
"A slow morning" in American English is most commonly used in a work context. "It's been a slow morning" means not much has happened, there hasn't been a rush of customers, there haven't been any crises, etc.
Is there a rule about the letter M becoming double when standing before the letter A?
I have never heard the word "slow" applied to a time of day in English! Lazy? Relaxed? But not slow.
if a slow morning sounds unnatural in the rest of languages but Swedish, let a native explain to us what it really means and let us stop guessing and supposing.
I googled it and it's a pretty common expression in English alright. Joseph Meehan of Oakland, CA., has explained it in great detail here: https://huckberry.com/journal/posts/slow-mornings
The thing itself probably isn't common enough anywhere in the world, though… :)
I think it's an Americanism (I commented above). NEVER heard it used in the UK. We always use lazy - which is what i typed the first time i saw this sentence as I thought Duo would have gone for that.
