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"Vilket djur har både svans och vingar?"
Translation:Which animal has both tail and wings?
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Grammatically, I think the translation requires an "a" in front of the "tail" as in "which animal has a tail" not "which animal has tail". I would argue the current translation is incorrect.
Except the main translation doesn't have it, which is a bit awkward I think, if not flat out wrong.
This got me too, I actually got it wrong because I couldn't work out the english translation from the swedish here, due to the poor english solution.
In Swedish, a bird’s tail isn’t called a svans, it’s a stjärt. Svans is like a monkey’s tail.
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There are birds whose English name is "Redstart"; apparently their Swedish name is rödstjärt, which is a lot less abstract.
And we make no difference between a bird's tail or a monkey's tail. So both "svans" and "stjärt" are "staart" in Dutch. It can also mean someone's hair in a ponytail.
(Btw: awesome that you're learning Dutch!)
Because I love languages and Dutch is my native language, so apparently someone who isn't a native speaker would also want to learn Dutch. That's awesome.
Is svans just for birds, and stjärt just for mammals & fish?
Could you please tell us what the "tail" of an airplane is called? And also, what is the "nose" of an airplane called?
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"Stjärt" is for fish and birds.
Mammals, like babbons, can have both "svans" (tail) and "stjärt" (buttocks).
The tail of an airplane is usually called "stjärtparti", but sometimes just "stjärt". In compound words you will probably see just "stjärt", for example T-tail is called "T-stjärt".
But, tailwind is called "medvind", so you can't translate everything word by word.
The nose of an airplane is called nos.
I know it's not really "wings" but first thing I thought of was:
https://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/90/81290-004-19CD3BA7.jpg
It is the "a" that is pronounced incorrectly. I don't know how to explain it, but do you know how to pronounce the word "svenska"? It should be that kind of a instead of the one we hear here. Go to this website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_phonology The pronunciation for "svans" on Duolingo is used with the vowel sound of ɑː instead of a. I hope you understand, haha.
Would the answer be different if there was comma between "svans" and "huvud"? :P
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Late answer, but dragonflies en trollslända, två trollsländor also do not have svans in Swedish, they have en stjärt.
