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- "You are drinking."
"You are drinking."
Translation:Ni dricker.
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Guys a help please..Du = you Ni = you also ?Where you put the correct one ..Ty vm..
To answer my own question I found out that Ni = you to plural..I hope i am right
You're right, that's the difference. Strangely, English doesn't make that distinction.
Actually, the English word "thou" used to be the equivalent to the Swedish word "Du", but it has dropped out of use and "you" has taken on both meanings.
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Fun fact: when we created this course, we had 'thou' as a hint in order to try to help learners understand what du means. But we had to remove it since there were too many English native speakers who had no idea what 'thou' was.
Wow that's a surprising revelation! It's so interesting how languages evolve over time and words completely drop out of usage, and new ones are formed or even borrowed from other languages. Thanks for sharing!
The native English speakers ought to read more Eddings... "Why weepest thou, boy?" :-)
That's too bad, I literally use thou semi-regularly in my casual speech. Thee and thou have never been out of my vocabulary!
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Except in many southern US states where "you all", or more commonly, "y'all" is the vernacular plural you. Some people in certain cities use variations on "yous guys" as well. Far from standard English, but useful.
Can this be used to mean you are drinking as in you are drinking alcohol? Or does Swedish not use dricker that way?
There is no Swedish counterpart to the English "am/is/are -ing" i.e. the present continuous.
Therefore both "You are drinking" and "You drink" would be translated as "Du/Ni dricker".
So if you see this construction you can be sure that you shouldn't translate "are" with "är".
I disagree Arnauti "håller på och" is slang and you could possibly say it, but never write it. "håller på att" is the correct frase.
Could someone explain how Du and Ni are used differently in Swedish? I'm having trouble making a distinction between the two.
so du singular, focusing on someone, where as ni is plural and used when addresing a crowd ect
I am struggling a bit to remember when to use Ni and Du as I thought Du was singular and the other was plural as you say Ni är pojkar (?) And Du läser (?)
This is seriously confusing me. There's no English distinction being made between the 'you's so I'm stuck guessing which you guys mean. Can you please use y'all? Or (pl)?
I guess both "du dricker" and "ni dricker" are accepted answers for this one, as there's no way to know which one to use from the English phrase out of context.
Also one more thing ..The AR i heard it on youtube as AR but here i hear it as I E..
That depends on the dialect, You can find more info about that in the welcome post.
How to know the difference between "is drinking" and "drinks"? Its always dricker.
Can someone please put all the swedish personal pronouns here? I'm having a hard time memorizing which is for what
Definitely not.
To begin with "ni" would rather be "Nimen" (你们) in Chinese since it is only used for plural "you".
"Ni" (你) is "du" in Swedish.
Originally, plural you was i in Swedish, but with time, the last "-n" of verbs in the plural (according to old Swedish languages rules) was incorporated in the word, turning it into "ni".
For example, "Do you want..." would be "Viljen i..." according to old rules.
With time, the last "n" in "viljen" moved to become part of the second word, thus the word "ni" was created.
No, the word "Du" should be pronounced Du.
However, "De" (they) should be pronounced Dom
"De" can be pronounce as "dom" - but it can just as well be pronounce "de" (like 'deh', but with a long e).
Don't ever try using "är" when translating English -ing sentences. That concept doesn't exsist in Swedish.
I don't understand :( When do we use är ? Because Du and Ni don't use it and sometimes it does .PLEASE HELP ME
Use "är" when translating the English words is and are - but ONLY in sentences without -ing. The person is irrelevant.
Both options are counting it as incorrect, is anyone else having this issue?
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If you get this as a multiple choice question, you have to check all correct answers, so you may have to check more than one.
It wasn't multiple choice when I had it, and I was on mobile. It's probably patched by now.
In this situation, I do not see how "You are drinking" is plural. The only way I have been able to distinguish is "Ni dricker" sounds more correct to me
