"Gudarna har hört våra böner."

Translation: The gods have heard our prayers.

[rwhodges]

Not to be confused with Gudarna har hört våra bönor: The gods have heard our beans. Only plausible if you ate way too many beans.

[CainXVII]

...and if you're from Stockholm, you would pronounce it exactly the same.

[araparseghian]

Anyone else find it hilarious that "böner" means "prayers"?

[Zmrzlina]

Why so? :)

[araparseghian]

I guess that's the kind of humor only native English speakers are familiar with, haha.

[Zmrzlina]

Well, let's just say the heavy metal band Tröjan didn't sound as metal on their Swedish posters. :p

[Arnauti]

The 'hard rock' usage of dots is really counter intuitive to us, because in our minds, ö and o are really different letters. Exchanging one for the other makes as much sense as exchanging P and R just because they look a bit similar.

[MonsieurCal]

I saw a band that traded all its 'o's for the Danish/Norwegian 'o' with the slash through it. I tried to sing the lyrics phonetically, to no
avail.

[prok05]

I don't know many languages, so I can't draw a better example, but, would this would be "different" as in Spanish comparing "n" with "ñ" or more like in Catalan comparing e/è/é or o/ò/ó which basically only changes the pronunciation?

[landsend]

O and Ö are as different as P and R. Accented letters in other languages work differently.

[Mikachu987]

Yes for n and ñ! They are both different letters. Ano and año mean different things.

[jayagmon]

Well, just think about it in French... "bonheur" :) (BTW, how do you use italics in a comment?)

[gertyb]

https://www.duolingo.com/comment/2591660 :)

[IHaveABonheur]

I know I certainly do.

[rumnraisin]

If it helps anyone remember, bön is cognate with English boon. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boon

[Beanybadger]

Does Gudarna refer specifically to male gods, or to the entire pantheon (goddesses included)?

[InvertedGo]

Goddesses included.

[Stux_net]

https://i.imgflip.com/1s3wlm.gif