"Du kommer att tappa tallriken!"

Translation: You are going to drop the plate!

[legresam]

How do we know here if it's going to be 'drop' or 'lose'?

[Zmrzlina]

Tappa often has to do with physically dropping something.

[OllePatriksson]

'Tappa' means 'to drop'
'Tappa bort' means 'to lose (A thing)'

[MihailDimitrov]

Hello, would you consider "I am about to" an alternative acceptable version to "I am going to" in this situation?

[RMB229]

All right, but "lose" is given as an option.

[Arnauti]

If you lose your umbrella for instance, that would be tappa. But you're not likely to 'lose' a plate in that sense. Hints are just hints, not all hints work everywhere.

[TiraBr0]

I love the 'kommer att'. Reminds me of a Southern USA way of speaking of the future. As in: I'm thinking of fixing to get ready to make dinner. Wonder how that would work in Swedish?

[HansLovesIce]

I guessed "you might drop the plate" could be a good translation here.
Is it wrong that I was marked wrong or was my translation not good enough?

[Zmrzlina]

It was not a good translation. For expressing "might" like that, it's common in Swedish to use "kan", "kan komma att" or "skulle kunna".

[HansLovesIce]

Tack, jag skulle kunna lära det ;-)

[TheSeez]

Störd är i huset, vi tappar tallrikarna!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpL2sWLwEtU

[Mugg19]

So is the primary meaning of 'tappa' to physically drop something? The fact that it can function as losing something is more or less incidental?