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- "En spindel dricker vatten."
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He's Batman in Swedish too, but he used to be called Läderlappen, which is a cool word. Literally it means 'a little piece of leather' but it's the name of a kind of bat, it seems to be called Vesper bat in English.
What relation is between a bat and spider,i think what you weant has been SPIDER MAN
Hahaha I love this comments! A regular guy like me open this app trying to learn a little of swedish and also learns about spiderman and batman, and other animals. Even about spider's mouth and environment! Tack så mycket!
Yep its cool not just learning swedish but learning about spiderman and batman
How do I know if the spider "is drinking" or "drinks" water? What is the difference?
Swedish doesn't make a difference between them, so either works. :)
"Ett" means "an" as in an apple or ett apple, right? And en mean "a" as in a spider or en spindel?
No, not really. In English, a and an are versions of the same word, and the right choice depends on whether it's succeeded by a vowel sound. In Swedish, en or ett depends on the gender of the word.
I never really understood the rule for ett and en either... I researched it and I didn't find anything so I guess you just really have to pay attention to the lessons when they include ett and en
what all does "en" entail? one, the? something else to? in English we have a separate word for everything. German and Swedish shorten things up a bit to give one word two or three different uses? am I wrong and confused?
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If you stick with the course, you'll soon start finding cases where English has just one word for different things that have separate words in Swedish :)
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, but en is the word fro "one", or "a/an". We use it both for counting and as an indefinite article. There is also ett, and which one you use depends on the gender of the noun.
So: En spindel dricker vatten = The spider drinks water. En spindel är dricker vatten = The spider is drinking water?
No, Swedish doesn't have a continuous tense so är dricker doesn't work. Instead, we use just dricker for both "drinks" and "is drinking".
A lot of the time you have to put "the spider is drinking water" it usually counts it wrong when I put drinks so I usually just put is drinking... It is always marked right.
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"A spider drinking water" is wrong. How would you change this sentence to specify there isn't an "is"?
Swedish doesn't have the -ing forms of English, so we'd rephrase it. For instance: en spindel som dricker vatten.
No, that's for "a spider is drinking water", but the question was about "a spider drinking water" as opposed to that.
Edit: Or so I think. The question's a little unclear. :)
