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- "Jag äter om du dricker."
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So is the verb "tycker om" related to the conjunction "om" or is it completely unrelated?
Because 'I am eating if you are drinking' doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Grammatically it makes sense, and to be fair, "I eat if you drink" doesn't make a lot of sense... (Maybe, "I'll drink if you pay" >_>)
True, but having an "if" in the present continuous tense doesn't always make sense. "I am eating WHILE you are drinking" or "I am eating BECAUSE you are drinking" are acceptable, but if you're talking to someone, you can see whether or not they're drinking, so it wouldn't be an "if."
"I will eat if you are drinking" would make sense though, because it is obviously referring to the future.
Two men enter a bar. The first wants to know if his companion is going to get food. "Are you eating?" he asks. The second man is hungry, but he knows his friend has already eaten and doesn't want them to stop there on his account alone, but he thinks maybe his friend would be getting a drink anyway. Thus, he replies: "I'm eating if you're drinking." The first man laughs and orders a round. The second, taking the cue, checks the menu for food.
"...this is a terrible joke... oh... oh, wait. Nope, this is an explanation."
I have the same question. "I am eating if you drink" sounds natural as a sort of challenge to the other person not to drink. "I am eating if you are drinking" is also natural, perhaps two people sitting down together to wait for a few minutes and deciding what to do while they wait. "I eat if you drink" isn't something I can imagine a native English speaker saying.
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That makes perfect sense for me. I definitely can't imagine a scenario where I would say I eat if you drink. Sounds like a bite for each sip, and why would anyone do that
Since (om) stands for (if, about) can i say: jag vill ha att veta om dig?!
like = tycker om; om = if; So how can i say "i like if you like" in swedish.
The earlier lessons teach that om means about, why is it so contradictory here?
To me, Swedish comes across as somewhat of a musical language, in that the words flow together; that said, when the voice on this site speaks quickly (naturally for Swedes) it's sometimes difficult to distinguish between words that sound similar (e.g. vi vs ni). Do other non native Swedish speakers find this to be true, as well?
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Yes, I do! I need to listen to that turtle speech all the time to understand what is said!
In an earlier comment, the Mange Makers video was introduced. Such silly songs!! But what does 'mange' mean? I can't seem to translate it anywhere. Tack för hjälpen.
Is it just me, sometimes the audio doesnt work at all like theres nobody saying anything as i practice
Ja. For me, it happens when i use the android app on my phone and leave the app to open up my browser to look something up. When i return to the app, still running in the background, all seems fine but the audio no longer auto plays. I just have to manually play the audio.
I'd bet it's a buffering issue. You can load up a module and turn off your internet, then finish the module (I use this for the commute to work)- some times it will even have a few more in memory. I'd wager that the audio takes up a bunch more space, so sometimes your device will prioritise the text if there's a network interruption.
this makes most sense to me if i think of it as "i eat on your drinking", almost like we in English might say say "fire on my signal"
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What would be the apparent counterpart to “om”, if I wanted to state something that is safely going to happen? That is, “I eat when you drink”. Maybe it was already mentioned within this lecture, but then, I forgot about it, unfortunately.
Gonna be honest I can't think of a single scenario where you would say this
