"Hon sa att jag har god syn."

Translation: She said that I have good vision.

[IdaEdlund]

I wrote "sade" instead of "sa" and got an incorrect answer. "Sa" is mainly used in spoken language, and is a more informal form of "sade". Both should be correct.

[Arnauti]

When translating this sentence from English to Swedish, both sade and sa are already accepted answers. But this is the sentence forum for translating from Swedish into English, so I don't understand how you could have had that problem in the first place?

[devalanteriel]

This is unfortunately not the case for "write what you hear" exercises, see e.g. http://cl.ly/image/1x0w0P1e3l1V - I had the same problem with ned/ner just a few minutes ago.

[Arnauti]

Thanks for reporting, I'll try to get something done about that!

[Arnauti]

I've passed this problem on to Duo staff, but it seems this may not be all that easy to fix. Stay tuned but don't hold your breath! :)

[devalanteriel]

Yeah, I figured so. :) Thanks for looking into it.

[dcl520863]

Wow, 4 years ago and Duo still can't fix this...
At least it is good to know we did not make a mistake.

[SvenJim]

Can "sa" be used as present tense, ie she says I have good sight

[Arnauti]

No, present tense is säger.

[MihailDimitrov]

Where is the sequence of tenses? 'She said that I had good vison' was marked wrong??

[InvertedGo]

That would be Hon sa att jag hade god syn.

[tomaduolingo]

The translated sentence starts with "She said...". That it is Reported Speech so the second part of the sentence should be in simple past also. 'She said that I had good vision'.

[devalanteriel]

We allow for mixing tenses when the statement conveys something that's not just true at the specific time noted. This is quite common - for instance, if the appointment was just this morning, it would make sense to presume that your eyesight hasn't changed since then.

[samira22401]

Is Bra syn is aaceptable?

[devalanteriel]

Yes.