"Jag sover i flera timmar."
Translation:I am sleeping for several hours.
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I cannot reply to Zmrzlina's post so I'll write it here - why "Jag kommer sova om flera timmar", not "Jag kommer ATT sova om flera timmar"?
When we were previously discussing a sleeping moose, Älgen sover i natt meant that the moose sleeps tonight. Älgen sover på natten meant the moose sleeps at night. Does this sentence mean I am sleeping for several hours now, this time? And if I wanted to say that I habitually sleep for several hours, would I use på? Tack så mycket!
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And this time it's really... What's wrong with "I sleep for many hours."? "Flera" is a countable form of "många", then translating it as "many" can't be wrong.
We do teach få, but I think since that also means "receive" that Duolingo doesn't realise they're different words and hence doesn't show it in red when it first appears.
Also, please note that we make a difference between "several" and "many" throughout the course, so flera only translates to "several" here.
I would not trust google, even for words. It's usefully only in very minscule ways. For looking up words I would use ord.se or wiktionary
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Is there a difference between multiple hours and several hours? My answer was incorrect because I translated flera as multiple.
1576
Thanks. It remains difficult, those English prepositions. I know what is meant in Swedish, but then things go wrong with the translation from Dutch to English.
1576
Yes, that's wrong as explained elsewhere on this page.
Jag sover om flera timmar: I sleep in several hours.
Jag sover i flera timmar: I sleep for several hours.
1576
That's a pity, because close enough is not good enough ;-). flera means "several"; många means "many".
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"several" and "many" don't mean the same. Several is less than many.
I've several trousers and many t-shirts. That's three trousers and ten t-shirts.
en älg is called "moose" in North America and "elk" in Europe. Duo accepts both translations. More about moose/elk on this site https://naturetravels.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/whats-the-difference-between-a-moose-and-an-elk/