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"My parents do not like that you eat ants."
Translation:Mina föräldrar tycker inte om att du äter myror.
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I am betting that Anrui reads the student translations and response in horrified hilarity. Perhaps my failed attempt to translate "I love my parents" will someday show up as some version of "No, no, nice people do NOT eat their parents."
I think they aim to highlight the difference in translation between "aunt and ant"
Off to Gothenburg tomorrow. Just imagine if I'd arrived without learning this phrase?
I tell you what, it's just as well I learned how to inform third parties of my parents' disdain for ant consumption.
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Just when I think it is not possible to love Duo Swedish any more than I already do.......
I suppose this is better than "Mina föräldrar tycker inte om att du äter fastrar" >_>
A good fake reason if you don't like your spouse and want to break the relationship
Great sentence, I'm glad its in my arsenal now.
But in all seriousness, how was i supposed to know that i should have said "tycker inte om ATT?" I wrote "tycker inte om SÅ" and got it wrong.
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att = that
Without the "att", it would be like saying "My parents don't like I eat ants."
Don't make the mistake of thinking that "tycker" means "like" and that "om" means "that". Rather, "tycker om" is an idiom meaning "like", and "att" means "that".
I'm starting to notice a pattern with words ending in "er". That pattern is that these words, when in plural form, now end in "rar". For example, "my sister" is "min syster" and "my sisters" is "mina systrar".
So, maybe that can help someone who is having trouble with this type of plural formation.
Not eating insects is just a cultural thing. Here, maybe some chocolate will help: http://www.chefdepot.net/chocolateants.htm
The "inte" usually comes right after the verb. Here the verb is "tycker" while "om" is a preposition.
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No, om is not a preposition here, it's a particle and always stressed. Since the verb is in second place in main clauses (that are not questions), inte goes after the verb there unless it's at the start of the sentence, which is very rare. In subclauses, inte goes before the verb. There's a longer post about word order here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/8970470, but with relation to phrasal verbs, inte goes between the verb and its particle. So either inte comes before all of tycker om, or it will go between the two words.
why was Mina förälder tycker ej om att du äter myror not accepted. Especially given that this was a multiple choice question, I feel this should get corrected.
Why does the suggested word gor for part of the suggested sentence construction never ever get used in any case ? So exasperating !! .
I think the system generally likes to include words that people often use incorrectly, to further drive the point home. And since English uses do-construction where Swedish doesn't, I imagine the word gör ("do/does") gets included a lot.
Would it be possible to write this sentence with "tycker inte" and "så" instead of with "om"?
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Myror har sedan vikingatiden använts i det nordiska köket för deras syrlighet i brist på citroner. Den danske chefen Esben Holmboe Bang använder dem regelbundet på sin restaurang Maaemo i Oslo. Och gillar Dina föräldrar inte det så är de väl bara avundsjuka :-)
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I still get confused with the word order here, even after reading about the V2 Rule. In my translation I wrote "Mina föräldrar tycker inte om att äter du myror", which is wrong, so I must have used the V2 Rule incorrectly, but I cannot make any sense of why it is wrong.
You're thinking correctly, it's just that att is a conjunction here, so the second clause functions independently. Hence, it follows normal word order for that clause, just as if it had been its own sentence - which means the v2 rule applies to it as well.
(This is not actually strictly true, because adverbials such as inte will still be placed in front of the verb. But it usually helps to think of it that way.)
