"Betalar du?"
Translation:Are you paying?
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That's past tense, which you'll get to, but to answer your question you would say "Betalade du?"
We don't accept non-question-form translations of questions (or the other way round). It is quite possible to create questions just by using intonation in Swedish too, so that kind of sentence always has a better translation. You could say Du betalar? – if intonation doesn't seem to be enough, just add Så at the beginning. We use that form slightly less frequently in Swedish than you do in English, but the difference isn't big enough to motivate adding statement forms everywhere.
No it's the long a vowel sound. Each vowel in Swedish has a long and short vowel sound.
Betalar mean same for are or is/am paying, but this time in translate thy didnt put pay or payes, so is it smae or has some diferents?For example if I want to say I pay --or he payes..
It would still be betalar, with jag, hon, han, vi or de.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/betala#Conjugation
No, Swedish doesn't change the verb like English you pay vs he pays.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_grammar#Verbs
Would this sentence formation be the correct way to lightly and informally ask if an invitation to join along is the other party's treat?
(e.g., in English, "You coming?" is met with, "Sure. Are you buying?")
Would "Betalar du?" replace "Are you buying?" in that case, or would one more likely use a different construction?
Why is "do you pay" (present simple tense) not allowed? Isn't it the same as "Are you paying" in the same was as "du betarlar" can be translated in to "you pay" and "you are paying"