"Flickan sjunger för sin katt."

Translation: The girl sings for her cat.

[ponku]

Sounds like a normal Saturday night to me

[ugnsriket]

same but its my fish and they are scared

[mwood611]

sounds like something I would do

[downloader]

Is sin pronounced as "shin"?

[Zmrzlina]

No, but the RS combination in "för sin" is.

[BatataK989]

Even if they are in different words? Is it always like that?

[4oYBIxtO]

Yes, but not in all dialects

[Professor_Ole]

...not in all dialects... can you be more specific on this? Which dialects follow this rule?

[4oYBIxtO]

Middle and North of Sweden. The South uses another type of ”r” (more like the French) and does not have this rule.

[GabrielCozzella]

What is the difference between 'till' and 'för'? Could 'till' be used here?

[Zmrzlina]

It's very hard to generalise about the meaning of prepositions between languages. They are highly irregular in their use. In Swedish, you sing för someone, not till.

[adamgallag1]

one sentence i had to translate was "the man buys clothes for the child" and the word 'till' was used for 'for'. how does the 'till' differ from 'för'?

[Zmrzlina]

It's just the preferred preposition. Why English wants "for" is an equally valid question. Just the way things are.

[Soasamuel]

is the Swedish SJ-unger pronunciation as for Ph-one in English?, Phiunger.. it sounds like that

[Zmrzlina]

No, it is not an F. It's a sj-sound. If phonology isn't your thing and the sound example in the link doesn't do it for you, think of it as something like the German and Scottish ch-sound (in "ach" and "loch"), but lighter.

[CrypticLogic]

More like hunger (soft g like in singer) mixed with the (ch) sound in the name (Achmed), the "flem" sound, but very suttle. Hchunger.

[Eugenie.V]

Why not "The girl sings for HIS cat"? Is this because "sin" can be referred only to the subject?

[Arnauti]

Exactly, sin always refers back to a subject in the same sentence. So pojken sjunger för sin katt means that 'the boy sings to his cat'. But if she sings to his cat, we'd say hon sjunger för hans katt.

[_woowoo]

could "flickan sjunger för hennen katt" work?

[_woowoo]

I just figured out that sin refers to the subject and hennen would refer to someone else that is not the subject.

[sotnosen93]

Exactly. Also, the possessive for "she" is "hennes", not "hennen".

[John210530]

Why this is not accepted: the girl sings to her kitty

[4oYBIxtO]

Kitty is kattunge

[sotnosen93]

Or "kisse".

[Malk.A]

This is cute

[Othmane_Chen]

Lucky cat, I guess?

[Arttuh]

what is the difference between "sin" and "henne"

[Alberto_HA]

Sin means the cat belongs to her, henne would mean she is singing to another woman/girl's cat

[sotnosen93]

Also, that would be "hennes katt". "Henne" without the -s is the object form for "hon"/"she".

[Amun_Ra_]

Is it wrong to prounounce sin like it's spelled or does it need to be pronounced like 'shin' because of the letter r?

[4oYBIxtO]

Yes, in some dialects it is pronounced ‘shin’ because of the letter ‘r’ at the end of the preceding word.

[90skidwithguitar]

Soft kitty, warm kitty. Little ball of fur...

[panparkiiet]

Honestly this is so cute

[ThemeParkV]

relatable

[hasanulasustun]

I deeply relate to her