"What do you have in your pockets?"

Translation: Vad har du i fickorna?

[Exochroma]

The One Ring?

[Philiopaes]

No if it would be the One Ring the sentence would be What has it got in its poketsessssssss

[biodude]

Where's the 'your' in this sentence? Is it implied?

[Arnauti]

As Lundgren8 said in the comment just above yours, Swedish often prefers the definite form where English uses the possessive. Read more https://www.duolingo.com/comment/6014446

[Tigu_cz]

Is "Vad har du i dina fickorna?" also correct?

[Lundgren8]

No. Firstly you can’t use the definite form after a possessor (dina). Secondly, Swedish often prefers the definite form where English uses the possessive. Read more here.

[garth188776]

What about "Vad har du i dina fickor"? Duo marked it right but reading the comments, I'm getting that while it might be technically correct, it's not how people commonly speak?

[Lauriegirl2]

Could you please provide a different link to this information? I study on an android tablet. Thanks a million!

[devalanteriel]

A bit late, but here you go: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/6014446

[MaestroAtticus]

a sneaky little hobbit must be the author of that

[Zamfir160900]

So this sentence can technically be translated to "What do you have in the pockets?", right?

[devalanteriel]

Technically, yes. :)

[Aebleskiver59]

Why isn't it fickor? Isn't fickorna "the pockets?"

[devalanteriel]

Possessives are inherently definite.

[NJtheSTQ]

More to the point, why is the Tip given as fickor instead of fickorna when you hover over the word!!

[devalanteriel]

Because "pockets" transltes to fickor in isolation. You need context for the given solution to work. Hints are set coursewide and do not necessarily apply to every sentence.