"All the letters were opened."
Translation:Alla breven var öppnade.
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I am so discouraged tonight. I'm going through these lessons but nothing "clicks." Usually I have some idea of the right word, and I confirm it or get an "aha" moment when I hover over the English word. But in these lessons I am completely lost. I'm not seeing any patterns and therefore am unable to even make educated guesses. Jag känner mig misslyckad i kväll.
No sorey, it wouldn't. You see "öppnades" is the past passive tense of the verb öppna. So the translation of "Alla breven öppnades" would be "All the letters are opened"
Good job anyway, got me thinking as well and swedish is the second official language in my country :D
And yet when I typed "Alla brev oppnades," Duo counted it as correct but told me to pay attention to accents and gave the correct response as "All brev öppnades." (The only difference being the ö.)
It's one of the accepted answers. "Var öppnade" and "öppnades" are not interchangable though, they're used differently.
could this be phrased as 'all the letters were opened' meaning plural adjective opened? Would that be öppna? I guess in that case you'd be asking us to translate “all the letters were open".
Yes, the simplest way to see this is that öppnade = opened and öppna = open.
Cause it's plural. When you use past participles as adjectives like this, they have to agree with what they're describing for gender and singular/plural, just like adjectives.
