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- "We go to a restaurant."
"We go to a restaurant."
Translation:Vi går på restaurang.
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Without context, maybe we DID take a bus. I thought I finally got aker and gar straightened out, and now this.
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I thought på restaurang implied to the restaurant, and en would be needed for a restaurant. Help
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In some cases, Swedish doesn't need an article with nouns when you want them in English. These are actions that are kind of seen as a unit – it's almost like gå på restaurang is a verb in itself. There's some more about this type of construction here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/5824774
Fixed phrase. "Gå på place". Can't explain really when you used it, but here are some examples:
Gå på restaurang (duh)
gå på bio (go to the cinema, go to the movies)
gå på teater (go to the theater)
gå på konsert (go to a concert)
If you say "Vi åker till en restaurang", then you're saying that you're leaving now specifically by means of a vehicle. Far more specific than what English "We are going to a restaurant" communicates.
Fixed phrase. "Gå på place". Can't explain really when you use it, but here are some examples:
Gå på restaurang (duh)
gå på bio (go to the cinema, go to the movies)
gå på teater (go to the theater)
gå på konsert (go to a concert)
If you say "Vi åker till en restaurang", then you're saying that you're leaving now specifically by means of a vehicle. Far more specific than what English "We are going to a restaurant" communicates.
You can't use gå because that would be the infinitive, rather than the present tense. It sounds like you thought går was only present continuous, but in Swedish the present form and the present continuous forms are the same word. They don't usually make that distinction (Although, you learn how to in another lesson).
Or maybe you are confused by thinking that the English sentence is in the infinitive. It's not. Like "See Spot go.", it is present tense. Infinitive would be something like "We have to go to a restaurant" rather than "We go" which is nearly the same as "We are going".