"De har flera fåglar."
Translation:They have several birds.
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I don't know if you've read other posts about the difference between "many" and "some", there is plenty. Many and several may seem the same, but actually have completely different Swedish words, "many" is "manga" and several is "flera".“Several” is used to mean more than “some” but less than “many.” The dictionary says it means more than a few but not a great number.
From what I've read, in English, technically "several" is between "some", and "many". Though I tend to think of them synonymously.
Yea, the voice does that. What I was taught in school (Finland) was that "de" is the official/formal form and "dom" is a colloquial/informal form. Mixing the written and the spoken is what threw me off early on in this course but I got used to it.
How to pronounce the "De har" together? As 'domor' or 'domar'? If to listen it separately I hear 'dom' and 'hor'. How to distinguish 'har' from 'är' in such sentences?
If the person speaking doesn't pronounce the h at the start, I suspect it might come down to context. Like 'your' and 'you're' in English. They'll sound the same but 'they are several birds' doesn't make sense.
They should mark it right if write several instead of many because does anyone actually use them correctly. Maybe they could say its right but add in it means many.(like a typo)
Not quite sure I follow. Only "several" is accepted here, since that's the correct translation. The course does not accept "many" for flera unless there's an error in the list of translations.
I'm just gonna guess there has to be at least one tongue twister with flera and fåglar, right?