"I will climb down from the roof."

Translation: Jag ska klättra ned från taket.

[Adelhaidar]

what is the difference between "ned" and "ner" ?

[Lundgren8]

”Ned” is more written and formal. ”Ner” is how you usually say it. Both are acceptable in writing.

[Tom98033]

Why "ska" intead of "kommer att"?

[Embla_]

'ska' is when you decide to do something, 'kommer att' is when something will happen outside of your doing, if I remember correctly. Obviously climbing down happens only if you make it so.

[InvertedGo]

"Kommer att" accepted for me. 05Aug2019.

[Olweg]

Ok so I thought ner was situational and nere was used when there was a movement... u_u
Can someone enlighten me please ? I'm so lost in this lesson, I always mix up the different variations :/

[GodlessGoat]

As far as I know it's the other way around.
Katten står nere. - The cat is standing down there. (situational)
Katten hoppar ner/ned. - The cat jumps down. (movement)

[devalanteriel]

That is correct. :)

[Macjory]

When is ’nedför’ used, as opposed to ‘ned från’?

[devalanteriel]

nedför is direction with an object, and ned från direction with an origin.

[Nikos483591]

Like " gå nedför trappan" - go down the stairs, " tårarna rinner nedför hans kinder". - the tears run down his cheeks. Cheeks and stairs are the objects, right?

[devalanteriel]

Yes, absolutely.

[Mokvinna]

Could you please elaborate on the concept of "object". Did you mean grammatical object? I am sorry. I am confused. Also, in the examples "gå nedför trappan" and "tårarna rinner nedför hans kinder" can one regard the origin as the top of the stairs and the eyes? I would appreciate your help.

[devalanteriel]

@Mokvinna

Yes, exactly, I mean a grammatical object. It works like this:

[subject] går nedför [object]

So nedför is the direction - "down" or "downwards". The subject is whatever is moving downwards, and the object is that, which is being travelled - like a set of stairs, for instance.

So as you can see, nedför is a direction, and it requires the (grammatical) object being travelled.

In contrast, ned från is also directional, but it requires the origin of the travel rather than the object being travelled.

[invisibleisabel]

Why not 'klättra mig'?

[Arnauti]

klättra is not a reflexive verb.

[boDjwyEj]

Don't see why "Jag ska klättra ner från taket" is rejected.

[devalanteriel]

That's definitely accepted. Was it a "type what you hear" exercise? It has to be a bug either way, but for those, there is a known problem where only one homophone can be accepted. It's very annoying.

[boDjwyEj]

Just a "fill in the word" sort of thing. The bugs throw me for a loop sometimes.

[devalanteriel]

Well, that's odd, but I'm not surprised. I don't know how many times I've written "there has been an increase in reports like this one since the redesign" recently...

[Segwyne]

My exercise was a translate the sentence. It did not say, "Another correct answer ...", but rather it told me I had a typo.