"Jag gråter tills du leker med mig."
Translation:I am crying until you play with me.
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If you mean as in "well, ..." - Swedish can't use väl like that. :)
I can't wait to use this with native Swedes, I'm sure it will make a strong impression.
I remember one of moderators has already said tills is commonly used while we talk about periods of time while förran is used when we talk about some conditions. here i see a condition not a time. so should it be förran? is it right or i am totally lost? :-(
förrän is only used together with inte. So not until is inte förrän, but just until is tills.
"Mamma, kan jag få efterrätt?" "Inte förrän du ätit upp grönsakerna."
"Mummy, can I have dessert?" "Not until you've eaten your (literally: the) vegetables."
Can anyone please enlight me about the difference between till and tills?
"Till" can mean several things, like giving something to someone, going somewhere, or, from a temporal standpoint, an approximation of when something will happen ("Kommer du hem till jul?" "Will you be home by Christmas?").
"Tills" only means "until something happens" or "until a certain point in time". I suppose you could say "till" marks a certain point in time while "tills" is a duration.
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Why is "I cry until you are playing with me" not accepted? Granted, it's a little awkward in English, but doesn't it mean the same since Swedish does not make a difference between I go and I am going?
Here mig is pronounced similar to my. Is it the most common way to pronounce that word? Or is it when we hear mej?
It's pronounced mej, which is why that spelling variation also exists. :)
I just got "I am crying until you play with me" called wrong. Here is the thing. I cry until you play with me is theoretically correct, yes, but no one would actually say it. It sounds weird, foreign, unenglish. Sorry, but it's true.
This is poor said in English. An English speaker would say I will cry until or I am crying until
‘speler’ is for things like games and sports where there are clearly defined rules for how one goes about playing, while ‘leker’ is for abstract play without strict rules, like children playing pretend.
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Jag gråter = "I cry" and/or "I am crying." DL almost always accepts the interchangeablity of the present tense verb with the -ing form.
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Please consider whether this variation would be acceptable/suitable. ‘I am crying until you play with me.’
I agree with all the people here. An American, at least, would never say "I cry until you play with me" unless they were narrating a story (ex: "next, I read until you walk in," or "then, I slap you in the face," etc). It would be "I am crying until you play with me" or, more likely, "I'm going to cry until you play with me."