"A cup of tea"

Translation: En kopp te

[David7697]

Would 'av' be translated to "of" here? So would 'En kopp av te' be correct? Why not?

[MoogleMeg]

Arnauti said above "Technically, 'en kopp av te' means a cup made out of tea."

[XX.HETALIA.XX]

so when do you use ett instead of en? I'm still confused

[Steven_Phillips]

Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I know 70ish% of the words are en words and the rest are ett words and you kinda just have to memorize which is which.

[jack487704]

Would a teacup be spelt "en te koppa"?

[devalanteriel]

No, it's a tekopp.

[Water_Sheep]

So a cup of anything (sugar, tea, water) would be "en kopp socker, en kopp te, en kopp vatten"?

[awbow22]

I'm not sure I learned this or not but I'm confused with this sentence. A cup of tea = En kopp te. Yet the translator says of = med/om/i. Is of implied here?

[Super-Svensk]

The Swedish partitive, unlike English, does not use a preposition. So, you just literally say, "a cup tea."

[Ifritcher]

So, 'en kopp av te' doesn't work. So if I went to Sweden they wouldn't understand or is this answer acceptable?

[Arnauti]

They would understand, but it's not acceptable as an answer here.

Technically, 'en kopp av te' means a cup made out of tea.

[S.M.94]

En kopp av te ... Is it grammatically right

[Zmrzlina]

No. Swedish doesn't use "av" the way English uses "of" in this very sense.

[JohnReuben2]

I thought en was used for denoting peöple why

[devalanteriel]

Not at all - it's just an indefinite article, and also the number one.

[ConnorDeHaan]

whats the rule for partitives in Swedish? are there cases when you use 'av' between the nouns or is it always Det Noun Noun?

[devalanteriel]

I don't have a complete ruleset, but we do use av for some partitive constructions - e.g. "some of the [plural or mass noun".

[Bjornsteinn]

Now I know it is (en kopp te) but could I do (en kopp med te)?

[devalanteriel]

It's grammatically valid but a very unidiomatic way of saying it, so we don't allow it as a translation.