"Boys and girls"
Translation:Pojkar och flickor
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A small query here: Why isn't it pojkor in the same vein as flickor, kvinnor etc?
Unsaid here is that previous Swedish had genders. Male plural is -ar. Female plural is -or.
Pojkar* Pojke, pojkarna, pojkar, pojken. Flickor, flickan, flicka. Both are meant to be said to kids.
Its related to the rules that arent used any more about the article,, whether its "en" or "ett" changes the suffix.
I always find the word "tjej" funny because it's arabic for chicken.
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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.
"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)
Pojkar= boys Flickor= girls Pojken= The boy Flickan= The girl In portuguese is meninos, meninas, o menino and a menina.
Pojkar och flickor was my answer but now it's saying that pojkar should be killar?!
