"Jag är trött på all reklam."
Translation:I am tired of all the commercials.
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A mass noun is one that isn't countable.
For instance, liquids tend to be mass nouns - you usually say "a glass of milk, two glasses of milk..." rather than "one milk, two milks..."
Also, it's something where you can use a word like "some" without turning it into a plural: you can have "some milk" where you would have "some bricks" (rather than "some brick"). It's complicated a little by the fact that English commonly omits portion descriptions (you could say "some milks" and mean "some glasses of milk"), but in those cases the portion is implied but not actually verbalised.
But the general idea is that it's something you think about as a continuous entity rather than discrete units.
You can say 2 milks if you are talking of servings of milk. I bought 2 milks and a banana and an apple in the lunchroom.
Why not "reklamen"? I don't see a "the" in there... but I'm missing one somehow?
After "all", "en", "en annan", "ingen", "någon", "var sin" and "vilken" you use the indefinite form of the noun.
So many rules to learn... so little time. Well, a lifetime- but that's how the saying goes ;) Thank you very much!
This is the same than "i am a lawyer", in Swedish you are not A lawyer, you are lawyer (jag är advokat), so you cannot be tired of THE lawyers, I guess it's that :P
Reklam can also mean advertising. It isn't exactly clear here which type of 'reklam' they're referring to.
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It doesn't accept "I am tired of all the ads" but will accept "I am tired of all the commercials". Is 'ads' too colloquial?
I would absolutely accept "ads" as well, so it's probably just an oversight.
What is wrong with: "I am tired of all advertisement" or "I am tired of all publicity"?
