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"Det finns flera öppna restauranger."
Translation:There are several open restaurants.
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They probably disagreed with you. I disagree too. But I'm not gonna downvote you. Interesting to hear what other people find more natural sounding.
I think both is natural to the English language and have the same meaning and either should be accepted.
Not it's not. One is idiomatic while the other invites a rather strange interpretation.
You are correct, idiomatic English of all the dialects and varieties that I know, would have beyond doubt, ...restaurants open. The other almost invites strange connotations, open to what? would be the question.
My understanding from what the mods have said in other parts of the course is that there is a difference between the meanings of several and many (and flera och många). Several is, according to the dictionary, "being more than two but fewer than many" and many is, "constituting or forming a large number".
As you can see, several and many have different meanings, and so they are not interchangable for the purpose of this course.
I wrote there are "multiple" and it denied it too, as a swede, I believe it should be correct, but whatever.
I would have naturally said "There are several restaurants that are open" rather than "There are several open restaurants". That sounds foreign to my ear. But I got the correct answer because I mangled the English to make it match the Swedish way of saying it.
Could one also say, "Det är flera öppna restauranger"? Misspelled that in the reverse question - not even sure if Duolingo would have accepted it!
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I could be wrong but I don't think so, I think that would be That is several open restaurants.
As a native speaker, I think this should be accepted (if it isn't already).
It is not accepted :-/ In all other places in the course, "several" and "multiple" are both valid for "flera".
Is there a way to make it so it dosent correct there is to there are. I know its colloquial but to me theyre often interchangable so its just annoying to lose a heart over my english
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That's more a question for the general forums, I think. For instance, we as course contributors for Swedish cannot make spelling rules for English, I mean, rules in the course that say that if you input something, you'll just be told that you have a typo. And the general rules for what is accepted in English are made by Duo. We can only add things as correct, and we try not to be too strict, but adding all the things that native speakers actually write would just be a huge amount of work for us, since there would be so many different things then. – I actually have a feeling that Duo may be considering some kind of option that would make things more customizable.
Oppna bcos restauranger is plural? Otherwise it would be oppnar??
No, you're thinking of the verb "to open" ("att öppna", present tense "öppnar"). The forms for "open" as an adjective go:
- Indefinite singular en-word: Öppen ("En öppen restaurang", "an open restaurant")
- Indefinite singular ett-word: Öppet ("Ett öppet värdshus", "an open inn")
- Definite or plural words: Öppna ("Flera öppna restauranger", "several open restaurants"; "den öppna restaurangen", "the open restaurant")
Not sure if you'd call it outright wrong or not, but it definitely sounds weird. Stick to "det finns" when translating English's "there is/are".
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The English dictionary definition of several is "less than many". I rarely (if ever) use the word "several" in English. I tend to consider the Swedish word "flera" to mean "a few" and the Swedish word "få" (usually translated as "few") to mean "very few". I would say "We've got a few restaurants in town" when I mean 6 or 7. If I said "There are very few restaurants in town" when I mean 3 or 4."
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I can't tell the gender, but it's the voice they just added a couple days ago, and I couldn't hear öppna on either fast or slow. It was said—there was enough time for it to be said—but to me it was inaudible.
