"Det stora nöjesfältet."

Translation: The large amusement park.

[Laski-Julle]

Why 'stora' and not 'stort'?

[Lundgren8]

Because it’s in the definite form.

• Ett stort nöjesfält.
• Det stora nöjesfältet.

[Sven-Ska]

Yes but why "stora"? That makes it look like a plural...
How would you say "big amusement parks"? Tack.

[Lundgren8]

Stora is either the plural form, or the definite form. ’Big amusement parks’ would be stora nöjesfält.

[savvas_sweden]

Still very confusing all these rules!

[jdfromdublin]

See the 'tips and notes' section of 'Adjectives 1'. They provided a good summary with examples.

[Keremboiii]

I dont have any tips section

[devalanteriel]

The unofficial Duome site is better at listing them in one place: https://duome.eu/tips/en/sv

[Keremboiii]

Thanks !

[Una_cerveza]

Bookmarked, really helpful link! Thanks!

[Kai9116]

It would be fun if Duo could include a more direct reference to Liseberg ;)

[N8GK2]

why "big" is not accepted? Thanks a lot!

[devalanteriel]

We do allow "big" for all variations here.

[DimitrisAr5]

The "ö" in nöjesfältet sound like something weird that I cannot describe. As if it is a different vowel completely. I guess it's due to the way it is combined with j afterwards.

[kiteo]

Sounds a bit like “nay-esfeltet” to me.

[Alexandru_____]

Wow, this word is a doosie. I'm going to have a hard time remembering how to spell it.

[devalanteriel]

It might help to break it down:

• nöje = entertainment
• fält = field (they're cognates so that makes it a bit easier)

Then they're glued together with an s, and the final -et is just the definite suffix.

[binbinmeng]

Why could not we say “ The big playground.“, please？ Thank you.

[devalanteriel]

A nöjesfält is an amusement park. A playground is a lekplats.

[binbinmeng]

Thank you very much devalanteriel. I looked up in the dictionary folkets lexikon just now and it has an explanation “ pleasure ground ”. Is it also accepted please, or we just must say “ amusement park”？ Thank you.

[devalanteriel]

We accept amusement park, theme park, fun fair/funfair, fairground, and fun park.

But a "pleasure ground" is something different completely, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_ground

[binbinmeng]

Aha, thank you very much indeed for your kind help.

[Cali343096]

Can't believe I have to learn the word for amusement park before learning the words for places like school, hospital, bakery, train station, ... :-)

[devalanteriel]

It wouldn't be that weird: quite a lot of users want to learn the language because they have a vacation planned, and so they want to learn tourist words.

However, words like airport, school, hotel, and church are actually taught before amusement park.

Some words are grouped thematically, so hospital is taught in the medical skill, which comes later. I honestly agree that one could be moved up a bit.

[Cali343096]

Thanks for your answer.
Tack!

[itsdotcom]

I'm not sure if this is an Australian thing, but we say "theme park" here, but it wasn't accepted

[devalanteriel]

They're not exactly the same, but we do accept "theme park" as well.

[AGVXzK]

I think I saw this somewhere else on another phrase that had two "the", but why not "Det stora nöjesfält" would not work? I'm sure it is one of the rules I'm missing. Tack!

[devalanteriel]

I wrote a bit about that here: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/26420394/Answers-to-some-common-questions-on-grammar-that-beginners-have

The simple answer is that you need three definites if there's an adjective describing the noun.