"Tallrikarna och smörgåsarna"

Translation: The plates and the sandwiches

[Anni-666]

this could be a good book title..

[jbwisienka]

...or a band name!

[oldladtim]

...or an album name!

[Minihugo123]

...or a song name!

[Yerrick]

One of the lesser-known Narnia books

[OwainLlyfr]

Oh, you mean "The Plague and the Sandwitches"? :-)

[Thirza.]

Yeah just what I was thinking!

[Minx714293]

How about a poem?

[Sarah21189]

like "the owl and the pussycat"

[Bergreen]

Smörgåsar keeps making me hungry

[Kaknothere1]

Same
And the picture mekes me even more hungry

[person222222]

This is particularlly easy because I'm expecting all these words to be plural definite. Any chance you could mix it up a bit as opposed to them all (or at least most of them) being plural indefinite?

[legendarynarwhal]

Am I correct in assuming that -arna means that the word has "the" and is plural?

[Arnauti]

Yup.

[Douglas-M-]

Is the 'r' in 'arna' supposed to be pronounced or is it silent? It's hard to tell if the TTS is pronouncing it very softly or not at all.

[celebrim]

The pronunciation of 'smörgåsarna' is incorrect

[PrzemekKam3]

I love the melodic sound of that

[OwainLlyfr]

The tts is a bit off on "smörgåsarna". It's not supposed to sound like "smörgossarna" (the butter lads)... :-)

[NightHawk60626]

"smörgås" sounds like "s'mores" and it makes my mouth water.

[karibondi]

Why are tallrikarna plates in english and not dishes?

[Arnauti]

We can add 'dishes' as an accepted answer, but plates is a better answer because dishes often means maträtter.

[Dave877531]

In English "a dish " can sometimes mean the pottery bowl or anything shaped like a bowl: for example a satellite dish antenna. But "a dish " can also mean the food as in "that restaurant serves interesting dishes". Ett öl versus en öl has been discussed here as one of those. Are there any other cases like this in Swedish names for pottery or kitchen hardware?

[karibondi]

Thanks for the clarification :)

[FhtagnDazs]

so it said incorrect when i said the plates and sandwiches. saying the before each noun seems the same meaning in english. is there an alternate grammar for one definite article on two nouns in swedish? it doesnt seem likely given the way they attach.

[devalanteriel]

Report it. I'd accept that.

[jdcul]

the plates and sandwiches should be accepted too with the second the being implied

[devalanteriel]

I get what you're saying, but this is so early in the tree and at such a low level that I think we run a risk of inadvertently teaching people that smörgåsarna is an indefinite form. I'll bring it up with the team for discussion, though.

[alexem123]

I can never say smörgåsarna right. I have lost so many heartsssss

[JYH6UtXB]

Is it my ears or is she saying two "s's:" one at the end of 'och' and one at the beginning of 'smörgåsarna?' It sure sounds like it. It sounded so much like 'oss' to me.

[devalanteriel]

It's honestly hard to say for sure since the voice botches the correct pronunciation. :)

[kimkonex]

Is r often silent next to n?

[devalanteriel]

No, but the r + n merge into a retroflex sound. Swedish does the same for several other r + consonant combinations as well.

[baketo]

I like how it says "smörgåsarna"

[Quantini]

Sounds like Japanese

[Zmbac]

Again smörgasarna..