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- "När är det slut?"
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Non-native speaker here, but my partner is Swedish. From what I've picked up from him and his family, "det" is often pronounced with very little emphasis on the "t" in normal speech (it sounds more like "deh"), which can very easily be confused with "du" if you're not used to hearing it. I think you just have to get the hang of differentiating between the sound difference :)
Adam386517
679
Same here!!! I actually tried to solve it without reading: "when are you done" and obviously got it wrong...
Arnauti
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När slutar det?, but otherwise you're right. (göra slut is only 'break up' like in people breaking up a relationship).
fVJYP11G
338
But not 'when does it end?' apparently as was not accepted. 'When is it over?' is a very different meaning, I feel, in English.