"Katter är vackra djur."

Translation: Cats are beautiful animals.

[DogePamyuPamyu]

What a beautiful word vackra is...

[Hjtunfgb]

Really sounds like Portuguese "vaca", cow...

[Aaxnox]

"Cars ate beautiful animals"
Thank you autocorrect. What a vack sentence.

[thebagofsalt]

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ugly-cat-sphynx-2.jpg

[JessieLangstrump]

Pfft. Still more beautiful than humans.

[w-torkington]

Dude...

[hardrockhamster]

I was searching for a pic like that! Thanks ヾ(≧▽≦)ﾉ

[Lilja652023]

They took the photo at the wrong angle

[therosesgrave]

What's the difference between "fin" and "vacker"? Is "fin" for objects (like clothes) and "vacker" for living things (like cats)?

[Heidijan]

AFAIK (as a norwegian), "vacker" is stronger than "fin", like beautiful vs. nice/pretty.

[ranld]

I know djur=animals, but I tried "creatures" instead to see what would happen. It was rejected. I thought I would double-check here to see what the moderators have to say. Does djur really not ever mean creatures?

[Gosesnuff]

Creatures would translate to "varelser". The one you need to look out for though is "kreatur" which sounds similar to creature but actually means cattle

[BalvinderC1]

I did the same thing so as to test whether it was a synonym in Swedish and expecting it to be so but it was rejected (22nd Nov 2016). So how would one say "creature(s)"?

[JoakimEk]

En varelse, flera varelser

[DavidWinlo]

Is the adjective modifying the pronunciation of 'djur' here so there is no d or is there an error in the audio?

[Zmrzlina]

The D in djur is always silent.

This applies to the first letter of words that begin in dj-, lj- and gj-.

[DavidWinlo]

Ah right, I must have been mishearing so far - tack!

[KarasuGamma]

I frequently hear the L pronounced in "ljus", though.

[Zmrzlina]

It's occurent in the Finland Swedish dialects, AFAIK.

[javakaffe]

It sounds like the r is rolled over and it just sounds like [ju'u]

[GlitterNinja101]

This is Sebastian Michaelis' sentence right here... :D

Only Kuroshitsuji fans would understand.

[Nakauri]

I understand why this is "Cats are beautiful animals" ... But I wrote, "cats are a beautiful animal" without thinking why this wouldn't be in a language course. What I wrote is a much more abstract phrase, but one that would still be used in English with the same meaning.

Only if there was a species specified, though - "They are a beautiful animal" would indicate "they" is in a singular form. But since "cats" or "wolves" cannot be a singular form the rest of the sentence, whether plural or singular, is understood as plural.

[Hjtunfgb]

What is the difference between "vacker" and "fin"?

[CedSgm7N]

There are cat people and there are do people. I am a dog person.