"The elephants drink water."

Translation: Elefanterna dricker vatten.

[Zageron]

I keep typing elephanterna. :|

[swussie]

Just remeber the drink fanta

[austyn.macd]

I don't understand what's going on with water. Why doesn't it follow the rules like say elephant, ending wise?

[Arnauti]

It's an ett word: ett vatten, vattnet and in the plural vatten, vattnen.
Though of course we normally don't say a water but use it as a mass noun instead.

[austyn.macd]

Okay. I got it. Thanks so much!

[dIngdOnGjimin]

This is so confusing for me...how would i remember this?

[devalanteriel]

Which part is confusing?

[dIngdOnGjimin]

just the spelling

[devalanteriel]

Of which word?

[dIngdOnGjimin]

elephant

[devalanteriel]

Well, like this:

• elefant = just like English but f instead of ph
• -er = plural suffix
• -na = definite suffix