"Det kostar tusentals kronor."

Translation: It costs thousands of crowns.

[ghostofthefuture]

I thought the plural of "krona" in English was still "krona." (like yen) I guess not?

[mattttw]

I'm pretty sure we refer to their currency as "Swedish krona" and not "Swedish crowns"

[DuncanHill0]

Most English people would say "kronor", but most Swedes I've met say "crowns" when speaking English. It sounds quite old-fashioned.

[Rosa_3]

So did I. Most English speaking countries don't mention the Swedish Krona on the exchange rate segment on TV News.

[Carolyn114766]

Me too. I have always used the currency names franc, mark, dollar etc. Never used crowns with ir without Swedish since decimalisation, at least

[Kreilyn]

Could someone explain me the use of "-tals" ..?!!

[Arnauti]

It's like the -s in hundreds.
100 hundra –hundratals – hundreds
1000 tusen – tusentals - thousands
10 tio – tiotals – tens (not used as much) and some others are also possible
Those denote 'round numbers' of things, an "in the ballpark" figure. hundratals or hundreds = 'several hundred of something' (so maybe 200-900).

tal means number as in 'mathematical object' (like in '4 is an even number')
antal means number as in 'a number of things'

[Kreilyn]

Ohhh..! tack så mycket!

[sandeepa2]

tack så mycket

[ion1122]

It's like the -s in hundreds.

Well, yes, you can translate 'tusentals' as 'thousands', 'hundratals' as 'hundreds', and so on. But the -s in the Swedish word is a genitive -s, not a plural -s, so the Swedish and English constructions are really not that parallel.

The indefinite plural of tal is tal.

[amber_jin]

can one say "DEN kostar tusentals kronor" without knowing for sure the object he is referring is ETT word or EN word?

[Arnauti]

Yes, that is also accepted here, since as you say, we don't know what the sentence is about.

[amber_jin]

tack~~

[apwohalyptica]

Could someone explain how to translate this one without using 'crowns'? It costs thousands of..krona? kronor? kroner?

I don't want to translate the currencies, it seems offensive for the language :|

[ion1122]

I would use 'kronor' in the English, just as in Swedish. (Look at the Swedish sentence that begins this page: 'Det kostar tusentals kronor.')

[apwohalyptica]

Tack så mycket!

[NilsTheChair]

so hundreds of euros

[ahferroin7]

Nope, Swedish Kronor are not the same as Euros, as Sweden has intentionally stayed out of the Eurozone. The exchange rate right now is a bit less than 10 SEK to 1 EUR.

[devalanteriel]

I think that was the point. Thousands of SEK is hundreds of EUR given the standard exchange rates. :)

[ahferroin7]

Ah, yes, I misread the original comment.