"Det tar en liten stund."
Translation:It takes a little while.
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"Liten" is indefinite - "En liten hund" "Lille/lilla" is definite - "Den lille pojken/Den lilla flickan"
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Dear Emil the verb....TA.....means take so the word tar should be ...takes or ....is taking
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Sorry, but Swedish HAS NO GRAMMATICAL FUTURE, so the translation "It will take..." is at least just as good.
What gave you that idea? Of course Swedish has a "grammatical future"...
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Before I studied in Uppsala (I'm here to brush-up the basics, I know Swedish pretty well) I was on a course with name Svenska för Utländska Studerande, as everybody else in this situtation. Then they told us that. And from I know about languages it seems true. "'Ska(ll)" is not a grammatical future tense. It's just a word signalling that it will perhaps be a future. So to say. Half of what I heard referred to future when I lived in Sweden (11 years) was in grammatical present. OK, I understand that it's not a clear-cut simple matter, but the fact is that lots what to the uniniciated looks like present in Swedish serves as future.
Ah, you meant a future tense. That's true, Swedish does not feature one. But that's not the same as having no grammatical future - we just indicate it through other means.
"It will take..." would be Det kommer att ta..., strictly speaking. It should not be accepted here.
lille is the indefinite singular.
The plural - both indefinite and definite - is små.