"De äter på nätterna."

Translation: They eat at night.

[BretHudson]

What's the reason behind it not being "de äter på natt"?

Edit: Arnauti explains how it can be both "De äter på natten" and "De äter på nätterna" (as well as how the latter emphasizes the plurality) here: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/6128437

[Arnauti]

The singular word is natt.

en natt 'a night'
natten 'the night'
nätter 'nights
nätterna 'the nights'.

Some words have this vowel change in the plural, it's what we call an umlaut in Swedish (we don't refer to the letters åäö with this term).
Here's a link to a discussion with a list of words like that.
https://www.duolingo.com/comment/5886811

[JimNolt]

Arnauti, out of curiosity, what is the little circle in the letter å called?

[SvenskaSisyphus]

overring. Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(diacritic)

[MaciejKoze2]

'Holy A' :) Not really, but that is what I call it

[DancingGeek]

I translated literally: "They eat in the nights" but this makes no sense in English. It was accepted as correct, I don't see how I can report that.

[Nakauri]

I wrote, "they eat in the night." This is correct English. "During" instead of "in" would be more common. "Nights" for the plural of night will almost never happen, except for, say, "how many (nights)?"

[Nakauri]

Interestingly enough I just got this question a second time but answered, "they eat during the night", and was marked wrong.

[AxonnEchysttas]

And they come from Transylvania

[apwohalyptica]

How come this sentence could be translated both as "They eat in the nights" (please notice the nights) and "They eat at night" (no the, no plural)?

[Silsool]

I'm guessing it's a language thing. I know that in French to say "at night" you'd actually have to say "the night". So you're not technically wrong if you translate literally, but it makes more sense to give the more 'natural' translation, hence the correctness of both answers.

[Jehyp]

Or english could translate this to.

They eat every night.

[Arnauti]

That would be De äter varje kväll/natt in Swedish.

[bigswedeej]

Ok, you got me. Nätterna is plural. The answer is not plural. Please explain

[lagolas2010]

COULD ANYBODY PLEASE explain me how should I pronounce swedish "r"? I am a native russian and we have our "р" as in "разнорабочий" or in "На дворе трава, на траве дрова, на дровах братва, как курнёт братва, вся трава в дровах"

[vvkrastev]

Is "De äter på natten." an acceptable translation? Or is the plural required due to idiomatic use?

[ulvzgr]

Nätterna means "The nights" so why we use "Night"

[cdch10]

Here it is pronunced dom, but in all the previous exercises was pronounced as de, why?

[Berniebud]

It wasn't supposed to be pronounced "De", that was a glitch with the "Text-To-Speech" program that was just now fixed.

In spoken Swedish, "De/Dem" is actually pronounced "Dom".

[cdch10]

Thank you! So it was a glitched now fixed? That's great!