"Pojken och flickan äter ost."
Translation:The boy and the girl are eating cheese.
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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.
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.
They are ost eaters! Oh, my gosh! Ost eaters! In our town! What ar we goibg to do?!
