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- "They have a thousand cats an…
"They have a thousand cats and hundreds of dogs."
Translation:De har tusen katter och hundratals hundar.
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Yup, genitive plural. English actually basically does the same, but Swedish doesn't really have the "x of y" way of phrasing possession.
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But in English "of dogs" is genitive and in Swedish "hundreds", and not the dogs. Or do I miss something?
Note that it is
ett hundratal hundar = around one hundred dogs
but(!) hundratals hundar = hundreds of dogs = several hundred dogs
Aren't these just special quantity expressions in both languages? Compare to "a couple of", "dozens of", "lots of" etc.
I'm not really sure I understand the question. English and Swedish really work the same here.
- hundratal = hundreds, both are nouns in the indefinite plural
- -s = of, different ways of expressing possession
- hundar = dogs, both are nouns in the indefinite plural
Does that clarify it? :)
I think she means that in English dogs "possess" hundreds and in Swedish it is the other way around. Compare:
skolans namn - the name of the school
hundratals hundar - hundreds of dogs (not dogs of hundreds)
Ah, yeah - thanks. That sounds likely.
In that case, all I can really say is that English has two ways of showing possession ("x's y" or "the y of x"), but Swedish only has one of them - so the same phrase in Swedish corresponds to both or either in English.
Why does it also suggest "med" or "om"? And why are u not supposed to write "av" here? It's just very confusing when you're supposed to use a certain word like "katterna" something like that and when you're just supposed to write "den" for "The". I feel like "Svenksa" is very particular, but maybe that's just me and English is just like that.
"to have" = "att ha"
The rest is "har": jag har, du har, han/hon/hen har, vi har, ni har, de har.
Easy peasy :)?
As long as a number is less than one million, it is always one word in Swedish (123456 = hundratjugotretusenfyrahundrafemtiosex), but it is normal not to use letters if it is bigger than twelve :).
