"The fish and the bread"

Translation: Fisken och brödet

[LingoLaura]

how to tell if the definitive ends in -en or -et? just memorization?

[MarkBorkBorkBork]

There are some patterns, but it comes down to memorization.

[rhblake]

And a pro-tip if you have to guess: supposedly around 75% of all Swedish nouns are -en.

[Coreopsis2943]

Why isn't fiskarna also correct, if it's more than one fish?

[Arnauti]

Fiskarna och brödet is another correct option.

[KateGoodman2]

If the "a" article for a weird is "et", will it get the -et ending for "the"?

[hardcoretomas]

I put "fisken och bröden" (silly me) and it still said it was correct?

[Michael990548]

It marks Bröden as a typo. This is the only case in which I've seen them except this as a typo.

[Arnauti]

bröden is the plural definite of bröd, it can be used to mean "the breads" as in "the buns/loaves" in some cases (we normally use other words for that though) or "the breads" as in "kinds of breads". So since it's a different word form, it should be counted as an error, but for some reason it only counts as a typo. We can't really do anything about this, I'm afraid.