"Hästarna är djur."

Translation: The horses are animals.

[tessastriet]

Why is djur animals and not animal?

[Lundgren8]

Otherwise it would’ve been ett djur. You cannot plainly say ’Horses are animal’. It’s ungrammatical.

[tessastriet]

So djur means animals and ett djur means animal? Thanks a lot!

[Lundgren8]

Djur means both animal and animals. But since the sentence ’Horses are animal’ is ungrammatical, you know it has to be plural since that’s the only grammatical option.

[tessastriet]

Thank you!

[sara641491]

But is this swedish sentence is djur plural or singular?

[NeoTubNinja]

Plural. It has to be since there is no article and being singular would make it ungrammatical as @Lundgren8 mentions.

[dilladiana]

because its many of them, basically more than one
for example: ett djur is one animal and djur its many animal

[Bad_Gengar]

I had an issue with the pronunciation of "djur", the way it was said made it sound like "ure"

[Zmrzlina]

Well, the D is silent.

[Uppsala18]

Why hästarna and not hästar? The first to me implies that not all horses are animal just these specific ones.