"Vi såg ett mord på tv."

Translation: We saw a murder on the television.

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Oh how lovely!

[WildSage]

Theft followed by murder. I hope this lesson is not going to be useful if I visit Sweden :/

[geirhardur]

I am curious if mord works such as the word barn.

mord = murder
mord = murders
mordet = the murder
morden = the murders

Is this correct?

[Zmrzlina]

Entirely.

[Troettkatt]

I have often seen the use of "teve" in writing, but it is not accepted here.

[Arnauti]

There's a problem with accepting spelling variation in the listen and type exercises. When translating, it is accepted.

[MissMuse]

So even though we say we watch things on TV in English we need to say here we watch them on THE TV in Swedish?

[renatamali2]

'On the television', shouldn't that be på tv:n? Thanks!

[Arnauti]

No, we don't say that. på tv is like a set expression. If you say tv:n, you would refer to a specific TV set, that would be more like saying 'on that TV' or 'on our TV' in English.

[KristinSmi568325]

well "on television" or "on tv" is a set expression in English which we are not permitted to use here .. Sucks

[devalanteriel]

Both of those are accepted, actually.

[RebeccaP234]

It wasn't accepted for me :(

[devalanteriel]

If that happens again, please consider leaving an error report. That way, I can either see what happened or send it off to the developers as a bug.

[SabethBlac]

In English you would not say on THE television but "on telelevision" was not accepted
How come?

[devalanteriel]

That's also accepted. Maybe you had some other error?

[KristinSmi568325]

Nope .. that was the only difference. This answer
is uninformed.

[spike1239]

Is 'mord' here just a regular murder, or does it refer to the murder mystery type of shows?
I mean, is it a common expression to say 'we saw a murder on tv' or is it another special Duolingo phrase?

[devalanteriel]

I would interpret this to mean something like a newscast every single time.

[Beanybadger]

There was me thinking of mord i midsomnar

[devalanteriel]

Yeah, we wouldn't say "saw a murder" about watching a fictional series. Plus, that series is called Morden i Midsomer in Swedish. :)

[asarnoh]

Why is teve not accepted?

[devalanteriel]

There's a bug with "type what you hear" exercises in that only one acceptable answer can be used, even if multiple spelling variations are pronounced the same.