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- "Han slutade svara i telefon."
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1456
No, that sounds like he's talking to the phone itself. Possibly if he's talking to Siri… :)
svara i telefon is a set construction
I think the sentence is supposed to mean that he was old or lazy or ill and he stopped answering any calls for a period of time. "He finished answering the telephone" really means the end of just a single call.
'Finish' and 'stop' can often be used interchangeably in English, but in this case the meaning is different.
1456
You can add the att if you want to in this case. It sounds better without it imho but it isn't wrong to add it. There's some more about it here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/7075383
1456
You'd need to say something like han avslutade telefonsamtalet ('he finished the phone call') for that. Han slutade svara i telefon is understood to mean 'he quit answering the phone', not that he was done with answering one specific call.