"Det tar en minut."

Translation: It takes a minute.

[kippy-burrite]

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'?

[Zmrzlina]

Yes.

[EliteSkink]

Do idiomatic expressions like "to take a minute" or "take time" translate pretty much the same into Swedish?

[Zmrzlina]

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.

[davost]

You can probably get away with straigt translations but they won't be idomatic.

[Rick626361]

Wow that audio is garbled... I listened to it 20 times and i would NEVER had guessed the first word was Det, it sounded more like Te or Till

[Bailey549144]

I agree, I heard vi instead, but it took forever and Doulingo saying I was typing in English instead

[JoanJMP]

wow, minut exists in Catalan as well (and it has the same meaning). So cool!

[TillBalcre]

This takes a minute is wrong? Appatently only that is correct.....

[Arnauti]

Late answer here too, but this is det här or detta in Swedish. det can be it or that.

[DogePamyuPamyu]

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?

[Arnauti]

Late answer, but lasts is varar in Swedish. Or räcker.

[makmegs]

If this is future tense, then "Det ta en minut" means?

[Zmrzlina]

This is present tense in both Swedish and English.

[Sharon266097]

It

[StefanHild]

Sounds like "Vi tar en minut" but Duolingo identify this as english...?

[PurpleCaz]

Same happened to me...until i realised it was det