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- "De vill ha glass."
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I wrote some more about vill vs vill ha in this thread: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/5892480
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Both de and dem are pronounced as if they were spelled as dom in Standard Swedish.
– Edit: I crossposted with JonathanMa872661, who is also right. det normally sounds like de, which may be one reason we don't want to pronounce de that way too.
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Yup, Vill du ha glass? It's a question so the verb goes before the subject. However the subject creeps in between the verb and things like particles or auxiliaries. (so it's only the part of the verb that shows time that goes first).
There is not the same issue with sounding demanding in Swedish culture. So they don't have a softer, more polite way of asking for something. It sounds a bit harsh to native English speakers like me but it's not a problem. I live in Sweden and run into this question of politeness regularly, here its the tone you use that adds the politeness rather than the language itself.
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This is the infinitive, which can basically never stand on its own. In the present form har, it's used a lot like has in English.
ha is also the form in the imperative, so that Have fun! in English can be Ha kul! in Swedish.
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This is the kind of thing you should really bring up in the general forums, since it's up to Duo. The people who read the Swedish forums are mainly the course creators and users, whereas Duo staff are very unlikely to read our sentence forums.
Does this make sense, "De vill glass ha"?
I'm asking because it's interesting how similar Germanic languages are. In Afrikaans, that sentence would be "Hulle wil roomys hê" The "wil hê" is similiar to Swedish, but "hê" usually goes at the end. I was wondering if this pattern is also used in Swedish or do the words "vill ha" always only occur next to each other?
Because the English word for glass (Swed.), glace (French), Eis(-creme) (Ger.) etc. is "ice cream". Ice (frozen form of water) is "is" in Swedish. Are you German? I know this can be a bit tricky, because in German we say Eis to both the edible thing and frozen water, although Eiscreme is also common for the edible version.
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is 'vill ha' one of the irregular strong verbs mentioned in the lesson tips because it doesn't end in ar, er or r?