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- "Jag tittar på tv."
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A very common way to spell T.V. in Swedish is teve. That should definitely be a correct alternative answer!
- 1487
Did you get this as a 'type what you hear' task? There's a problem with making the machinery accept spelling variants in these. We can't fix that right now, but I'll turn that excercise off for this sentence. On the 'translate into Swedish' side, teve is an accepted answer.
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Yes, there is "television", but only in a strictly technical sense (or really old-fashioned, 1950s when it was new to Sweden).
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C'mon folks. I got this wrong because I wrote tv and was informed that the correct answer is telly.
Then you had some other error as well and didn't realise, in which case Duolingo isn't smart enough to show you a closer solution to what you wrote.
I have just had this problem and reported it. I wrote "I watch the TV" and was corrected to 'I watch telly'. As far as I am concerned there is no difference.
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I am watching the telly should be accepted as that is the common way of expressing this.
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in the sense of checking it out as opposed to settling in for a viewing session? Kolla! = check it/this out
So, 'tittar pa' can mean either looking at or watching? I've always thought of it as looking at .....
just curious, do i still use "tittar på" if I want to specifically say "I am looking at the tv" in swedish?
