"Jag har sockret."
Translation:I have the sugar.
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You won't have it for long. There's some kids running around eating salt, pepper and sugar.
I'm guessing that it evolved phonetically. Say "sockeret" quickly, many times and you can hear it morphing into "sockret." Just a guess though. :)
why is the suffix sometimes -et and sometimes -en? is there any principle
It depends on which form the word originally is like ett hus / en mus -> when the ett/ en is before the word it is a/ an like in English. When that article is put to the end of the word, the word is in definite form, similar to the -> huset/ the house musen/ the mouse. And these are things you just have to know. In some words it changes to other comibinations - like blomman (the flower).
It’s optional, you don’t have to pronounce it like that across word boundaries, but many people will.
Do u actually say it like this in swedish? Like in a conversation? "I have THE sugar"? Instead of "I have sugar"??
Can .I have the sugar.. mean two different things. I eat the sugar. and I have got the sugar , for instance on my hand? Is it the same in Swedish?
No, har is not used for the 'eating' or 'taking' sense in Swedish. If you offer someone an apple by saying 'Have an apple!' in English, you'd say Ta ett äpple! in Swedish. And 'have' as in 'We're having lunch' must be translated as äter.
I hear the lady saying sockyet, rather than sockret...it that the correct pronunciation of an "r"...as a y sound as in yellow, rather than a rrrr as in red?
I definitely hear the voice saying the 'r' but it is very soft which unusual.
Is the voice always correct? I mean, should i take it as an example and exercise on that model? I ask because i looked up the italian couse and i think that it is way more useful silenced :)
It's usually fine but I'm afraid it's not always the case. I've done some ~70 re-recordings which you'll find among comments now and then, but it's hard to say how much is wrong as a general number.
Again, though, it's mostly fine. You'll learn much more from having it on than you'll gain by turning it off. :)
So uncountable nouns practically behave as ett words when in the definite form?
No, that sounds like "I have a sugar" in English. It's a mass noun in both languages - so just Jag har socker.
Socker is an "ett-ord". It's generally uncountable but as in English you can say ett socker (a sugar) to mean a type of sugar.
For example:
Vi gör ett socker av finaste kvalitet - We make a sugar of the finest quality.
Otherwise you have to specify the unit to speak of sugar in the definitive: En kopp socker (a cup of sugar), ett sockerkorn (a grain of sugar), en tesked socker (a teaspoon of sugar), and so on.
You can of course also speak of det sockret - that sugar.