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Can this mean both 'it takes a minute' as in 'you'll have to be patient, the computer takes a minute to start up' and 'it takes one minute exactly'?
Do idiomatic expressions like "to take a minute" or "take time" translate pretty much the same into Swedish?
Yes.
If you say "vänta en minut bara" (just wait a minute) it will be understood that you don't mean a literal minute, but a short time.
You can probably get away with straigt translations but they won't be idomatic.
wow, minut exists in Catalan as well (and it has the same meaning). So cool!
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Late answer here too, but this is det här or detta in Swedish. det can be it or that.
Can this also mean it lasts a minute? Because I remember in the Dutch course the verb duren was introduced here and it translated to "last" and "take"... Can tar mean "lasting" a certain amount of time?
