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"When does the meeting end?"
Translation:När slutar sammanträdet?
January 13, 2015
12 Comments
Arnauti
1451
That's true. avsluta in principle requires an object, unless it's passive I guess.
Vi avslutar mötet klockan 18 'We finish the meeting at 6am'.
Only sluta can mean 'quit', like in sluta röka 'quit smoking'
If you slutar med det du gör you stop doing it, but if you avslutar det du gör, you'll finish it as in 'it will be finished, ready'.
Arnauti
1451
Phrasal or particle verbs are very easily split. The subject will go between verb and particle like here, and adverbs can too, but not objects. There's a little more about this under 1.3 here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/8970470