"Her aunt is an interpreter."

Translation: Hennes moster är tolk.

[ElliotVadi]

I am a native Swede trying out the Swedish course on Duolingo simply because I have nothing better to do.
I translated said sentence to "Hennes faster är tolk.", which was wrong, apparently.
I believe this is quite a flaw, since "aunt" may be translated to either "moster" or "faster", depending on if said aunt is maternal or paternal.
The sentence did not specify this, which does make it hard to know what word to use.
Remember, in Swedish, we have two separate words. It's not as simple as in English.
In short, I believe this question is flawed.

[devalanteriel]

I'm guessing there was a bug, then. We normally allow both faster and moster in all sentences where it just says "aunt", for obvious reasons. :)

[Lukas296444]

That bug is still here then. Faster was wrong for me.

[devalanteriel]

Bugs unfortunately do have a tendency to not be fixed quickly here. :(

[KatrinAid]

I see, and I bet that alot of users find it demotivating.

[Dathanlo]

Tolk is pretty easy to remember. Just remember that J. R. R. Tolkien was a linguist

[Ungewitig_Wiht]

I got one sentence with the definite form (Tolken) and actually had to double check that the spelling was different

[lagolas2010]

That's one of the most remembering rules I've ever read in Duolingo so far

[lagolas2010]

One of the most useful^

[Neco_Coneco]

What if you don't know if it is her mother's or father's sister?

[NDAHQ]

You have to know that. There are no word in Swedish that includes both 'faster' and 'moster'.

[Kian089]

Don't we need 'en' here ?

[Lundgren8]

You don’t use it with occupations or political/religious affiliations:

• Hon är präst. (She’s a priest.)
• Han är socialist. (He’s a socialist.)
• Hon är muslim. (She is a Muslim.)

[lagolas2010]

Let's exclude arcticles at all!!! We did it in Russian already and we feel pretty good. Anarchism, liberty, freedom

[AhmedAmine448576]

Is true.

[Polskana]

alla brukar säga en ändå, det är inte fel

[viola399315]

Why theres no "en" or "ett" in there?

[tsKiitos]

why not henne?

[Zmrzlina]

Henne = her, as the object of an action

Hennes = her or hers, as the owner of something

[HoroTanuki]

What's the difference between hennes and hons? Can you even use hons, like "hons moster är tolk"?

[Arnauti]

No, hons is an incorrect form. You'll hear it from children at a certain age.

[TobiasP5]

Isn't faster och Moster the same thing?

[JillSch]

Why is it hennes not sin?

[deactivated user]

'sin' is used to refer to the subject of the sentence, i.e. "she held her pen" , not "it is her book".

[RealZyptor]

Aunt is a word for both "moster" and "faster". Wrote "faster" and got a worng...

[devalanteriel]

Either you had another error as well and didn't realise, or there was a bug.

[NataliaMor932485]

Still an error, not accepting aunt from maternal or paternal side, cannot tel from the english