"You are drinking my cat's milk."
Translation:Du dricker min katts mjölk.
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Was this milk that was intended for the cat, or (even worse) given by the cat, for her kittens? In real life this could also play out with a guest: "Dude, you are drinking my wife's milk!"
Why can't i say "du dricker min kattens mjölk"? The cat is mine, therefore he is THE cat - katten. I am trying to find a logic, but Swedish breaks it completely.
My guess is that 'min katten' is redundant. Do you speak Norwegian? That's how they do it. I don't know Danish, it could be the same there too.
We most definitely do not speak like that. In Norwegian we would say "Du drikker melken til katten min."
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It is quite simple really. You can say either "du dricker min katts mjölk" or "du dricker kattens mjölk" but you can't say "du dricker min kattens mjölk" just as in English you can't say "you are drinking my the cat's milk" - the rule works the same in both languages in this instance.
- present = du dricker
- past = du drack
- future = du kommer att dricka
Swedish doesn't have a continuous tense, so "drink" and "are drinking" both translate to the same thing - just dricker.
Why is there no apostrophe after katt if the milk belongs to the cat? (i.e Du dricker min katt's mjolk) (sorry I can't put the correct vowel in the sentence due to English keyboard)
There is no context given and therefore we have no idea how many people are drinking the milk, so surely both Ni and Du should be accepted?
They are, and if you get it as a multiple choice question, you have to choose both.
Swedish doesn't have the "you are drinking" continuous, so we use du dricker for both that and "you drink".
Because "kattens" means "the cat's".
"Du dricker min kattens mjölk" tranlates to "You are drinking my the cat's milk", which sounds odd.
Yes and no:
du is to dig as "I" am to "me" - so dig dricker would be like saying "me drink" instead of "I drink.
ni is to er in the same way, but it's the plural you, i.e. more than one person. So we accept ni as well.
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what you mean would be "Ni dricker min katts mjölk." - if several people are drinking your cat's milk
