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- "Pojken och flickan äter ost."
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If someone says you have too much cheese on anything, never talk to them again. Who needs that sort of negativity in their life?
anyone else getting confused that hon=she and han=he for some reason my brain wants then the other way and switches them
I'm polish and "a" is strongly connected with feminine nouns and names. The same in spanish I learned for a while... It's driving me crazy. "A" is a woman for me :) When I make a conscious effort I can remember it's the other way round here, but I keep making the same mistake if I do the excercises here too fast.
When an en-word already ends in "a," you drop the "e" and just add "n." Ex: en soppa- a soup, soppan (the soup).
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Nope, Swedish doesn't have that construction. That means that it is a little cumbersome to stress that something is an ongoing action in Swedish. The workaround is to say your body position and the verb and it will somehow clarify that the action is ongoing. For example you cound say Pojken och flickan sitter och äter.
I don't understand this explanation. Could someone please clarify? I'm a bare-bones beginner. Thanks much.
In English, you could say either "they eat" or "they are eating". The latter is called the continuous, because it's something that's currently happening.
But Swedish doesn't have a continuous - we don't make this distinction. We only have de äter. So "they eat" and "they are eating" both translate to de äter.
Thanks very much. So, out of curiosity, how does one know what is meant, then, without the continuous form? Thanks again.
Contextually - it rarely matters a lot in practice, really.
Swedish does have a few ways of constructing a continuous, but these are more advanced and you'll encounter them later.
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In English the verb gets the -s ending in the present for he, she, it, i.e. third person singular. So it would be The girl eats cheese.
But when you say the boy and the girl, they become a unit so together they are "they" which is third person plural, and then it has to be The boy and the girl eat cheese just like in They eat cheese.
This came with the "drag & drop the words" exercise for me, and both "eat" and "are eating" were available. It told me eat was wrong, and I should've put "are eating".
That obviously makes absolutely no sense, but they are both accepted, so I would presume you were the victim of a bug out of our control.
This seems to be happening a lot to you. Could you please take a screenshot the next time so I can send it to the developers?
