"Man har alltid ett val."

Translation: One always has a choice.

[Zzzzz...]

The owl has been reading Jean-Paul Sartre.

[francociappina]

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/17

RADICAL FREEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOOM

[dimitrimimi]

Is it me or does it sound like she is saying "man bar..." instead of "man har..."?

[Helmut83]

Totally. "Man var...", that's what I hear, and I listened to it many times.

[devalanteriel]

Yes, the audio appears to be slightly off.

[Betelgeuse321]

Kinda but I hear (b)har with a light sounding B

[basiliotimpanaro]

Is it not true also "You always have a choice" ?

[Arnauti]

Yes, that's an accepted answer.

[Terence1511]

In german: Wahl

[ellegresse]

I translated as "man always has a choice" and my answer was marked as incorrect ((( why? i think it can be an alternative answer

[Zmrzlina]

"Man" in English is not the same as the pronoun "man" in Swedish.

[sustained]

This sentence is broken as "man har alltid ett val" was not accepted as being correct.

[Arnauti]

It's not about the specific sentence, it's a bug that can strike any sentence at any time.

[heardahe]

vad är skillnaden mellan "ett urval" och "ett val" ?

[devalanteriel]

urval is a selection, val is a choice.

[potatoeglot]

Reminds me of the first two lines of this song:

Tänk dig att du tvingades att testa din moral

Att du inte hade något annat val

Link for those on mobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IjHk7lpB-M

[Mokvinna]

Could you please give the various forms of the noun "val" meaning "value." I understand that "en val" can also mean "whale".

[devalanteriel]

val can never mean "value" - it's either "whale", "choice", or "election(s)". You can find declensions for both options here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/val#Swedish

[Mokvinna]

Sorry. I was probably too tired when I wrote that "val" could mean "value". I had meant "choice". Thank you very much for clarifying that "whale" is an "en" word" and "choice is an "ett" one. I appreciate having the declensions of both.

[ElizabethA814894]

Man and one are the same so I can use man instead of one. So I'm not wrong.

[devalanteriel]

No, not really. English can use "one" in the sense of the general "you", but not typically "man".

[MicMac75]

jag skrev "one always has an option", varfor ar det fel?

[devalanteriel]

That'd be alternativ. A choice consists of options, so they're not quite the same.