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- "Kvinnan stöttar mannen."
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Does this work as "support" in the emotional sense, the financial sense, or both?
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There's a nuance though. If you want to say that she provides him with a living (= he doesn't earn any money of his own), that would be hon försörjer honom.
Hi. 'The woman's supporting the man' wasn't accepted. Could you amend that, please?
I'll add that. All "[noun]'s [verb]ing" variations have to be added manually, so they're quite easy to miss.
What about "help" like help me or he helps her? Is that a while different word?
Does it also work in the physical sense, when preventing something from falling?
i wrote the woman supports the man but it says i'm wrong and it's the lady supports the man
I don't know why, but for some reason the word "woman" has been buggy all over the course for the past weeks. Duolingo insists on "correcting" it to "lady", even though "woman" is the far better translation.
by supporting, does it mean emotionally or literally? Or is it both? Tack så mycket.
Doesn't 'man' also mean 'husband'? I translated it as 'the woman supports her husband.'
You're right, it does - but remember that Swedish would use the reflexive here: Kvinnan stöttar sin man. Otherwise, it sounds like she supports some other person's husband.
Given very explicit context, your translation works, but I don't think it's nearly obvious enough that it should be an accepted translation. No native Swede would think it meant "husband" here without context.
