"Boys and girls"

Translation: Pojkar och flickor

[Shabz86]

A small query here: Why isn't it pojkor in the same vein as flickor, kvinnor etc?

[fresh-tea]

Its related to the rules that arent used any more about the article,, whether its "en" or "ett" changes the suffix.

[Allah69]

Pojkar* Pojke, pojkarna, pojkar, pojken. Flickor, flickan, flicka. Both are meant to be said to kids.

[Professor_Ole]

Unsaid here is that previous Swedish had genders. Male plural is -ar. Female plural is -or.

[pompalmoose]

I always find the word "tjej" funny because it's arabic for chicken.

[Vevlira]

Why is pojkar och flickor not correct here?

[Zmrzlina]

Isn't that exaxtly what it's translated to above? Am I missing something?

[Vevlira]

That... is interesting. I'm mostly using the Android app for learning and it doesn't show the translation (I'm on the webpage right now).

My problem was: I had to translate "boys and girls" yesterday and I typed "pojkar och flickor", but the system marked it as wrong and suggested "Tjejer och killar" as the correct translation. I read some of the other discussions about the differences between pojkar/killar and flickor/tjejer, so I'm aware of both, but I thought for this question it might be okay to use either one. And apparently it is...

Must've been a problem in the system?! I'll see if it turns up again and report it then.

[fresh-tea]

"Tjejer" and "killar" are from "tjer" and "kille" which is a less formal way of saying girl and boy respectively. The phrase given is the suffixed version.
(This is what my swedish partner explained to me)

[fresh-tea]

*tjej

[Alexandre146678]

Pojkar= boys
Flickor= girls
Pojken= The boy
Flickan= The girl
In portuguese is meninos, meninas, o menino and a menina.

[LP1459]

Caps?

[ThomasShuler]

Is it because of caps, does order not matter as mich kind of lile latin?

[Caleb460920]

Pojkar och flickor was my answer but now it's saying that pojkar should be killar?!