"Jag blandar de två färgerna."

Translation: I mix the two colors.

[hundage]

to say "I mix those two colours" (which is the answer i gave, and was wrong), would i say "jag blandar de dar tva fargerna"?

[Zmrzlina]

Yes.

[JDLENL]

'Gott Och Blandat' -- great, until you get to the black licorice...

[jhlouise]

They're horrid, aren't they?

[Zmrzlina]

What?! I love them!

[JDLENL]

That's because you're Swedish. I, however, am not.

[jhlouise]

My partner is Swedish and hates them. His father, however, can't get enough! So I always give them to him. :)

[itatane]

Are we talking about Salmiakki candy here? Because, if we are, blech!

[seaeagle5]

Why include 'de' here? Surely 'fargerna' (no Swedish keyboard) means 'the paints'. Can it not be 'jag blandar tva fargerna'?

[ion1122]

When a definite noun is modified by an adjective (in this case 'två'), then the definiteness is expressed using not only the noun ending, but also a de (plural) or a den (en word singular) or a det (ett word singluar) before the adjective as well.

[dcounts]

De. Plural. Spaced it out. Tusen tack.

[jayjay23a3]

In english blend and mix can be used fairly interchangably in most situations, but blending colours suggests going from say black to white with a subtle shift whereas mixing suggests your trying to make a new colour.

[Arnauti]

A more technical term in Swedish is bryta. E.g. bryta det vita med lite grönt which would probably be 'blend the white with a little green'. This is used about subtle shifts of color.

[saqirltu]

what does this "mix" mean here, merging two colors into one? or misrecognizing them

[ion1122]

saqirltu, the English expression you are thinking of is not 'mix' but rather 'mix up': I mixed up the two colors, I mixed up the two words. In these examples mix up = confuse, whereas mix = blend. As for the Swedish, I would guess that 'blanda' means 'blend' but does not mean 'confuse'.

[Arnauti]

Correct, 'mix up' is blanda ihop or förväxla in Swedish.

[saqirltu]

Thanks ion! I won't mix those up anymore :)

[Rycecube]

I would assume merging the two into one - 'mix' would have no other meaning here to me.

[saqirltu]

take it another way, if I say "I am mixing the two words/persons", could I use this bland?

i was confused if the sentence in the question meant for a color blind case, or it meant for "blending" which might be a more direct English translation

[zuvedra_mandra]

I'm not English-speaker, but for me 'blend' goes here more naturally. It's an accepted answer, though. And more easy to memorize :)

[boktah]

I thought about blending too, but, in general, i never post my concerns as i am not native english

[Mahsa.ghn]

Why its de två? What is wrong with only blandar två färgerna?

[Arnauti]

Late answer, but it's a good question. The answer is that it's because färgerna is definite. So you can say either
Jag blandar två färger – 'I mix two colors'
or
Jag blandar de två färgerna – 'I mix the two colors'
but you can't mix the two – sorry about the pun :)

[vogliocapire]

keep them puns coming

[Edinfabio]

Ursäkta everyone, I am not English native speaker. Does is sound weird to say "the two colours?" I always said I mix two colours, even I'm talking about 'that coulours'

[Beanybadger]

If you already know in advance what the two colours are, then it's not weird.

"I have red and yellow on my palette. I mix the two colours to make orange."

[DerpyApples]

Tip: blander = blend = mix. To make this easier to remember

[dcounts]

Combine?

[devalanteriel]

kombinera :)

[leemonday]

is it blända or blanda, because I have seen both. Not necessarily on Duolingo, but on other sites.

[Arnauti]

blända means 'blind' or 'dazzle', like when the sun gets in your eyes. (also used figuratively like dazzle and bländande is used like 'dazzling' – can be either about the sun or about e.g. a performance)

[poppo17]

so could I translate "blandar" with "blend". I am not sure what "to blend" feels like to a english speaker. Are "to blend" and "to mix" equivalents in meaning? when I think "blend" I imagine the tea. So I think "to blend" is to take various things, and to put them together with care and know how. While to mix is more generic and approximative... Could I say "to blend eggs and milk"?

[larsvdm]

Do you pronounce the article 'de' as 'dom' like you do with the pronoun?

[Arnauti]

Yes. Both de and dem are always pronounced as dom by the vast majority of speakers. (there's some dialectal variation).

[larsvdm]

Thanks!

[se.abrahamsson]

Can someone tell me why "I mix the both paints" is wrong. Or just because no one thought of it before (so it's not an included answer)

[devalanteriel]

"the both" isn't a grammatical construction, though occasionally used colloquially.

[letitiafickling]

Why is colour wrong??? Its an acceptable spelling?

[ion1122]

Letitia, what exactly did you write?

To write "colo(u)r" is clearly wrong, as the word used here must be plural, not singular.)

[devalanteriel]

They didn't leave an error report for me to refer to, but I can confirm at least that both "colors" and "colours" are accepted.

[Martine307999]

Would it be the same verb "blandar" if you wanted to say "I mix the two colours because I am colourblind"? That "mix" would refer more to a visual deficit, so what verb would you use?

[ion1122]

I believe you are thinking of the English "mix up" which means the same as "confuse":

mix up = confuse = förvirra