"Din generation har svarta kläder."
Translation:Your generation has black clothes.
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... and listens to ROCK MUSIC, and has no respect for the elder generation!
Crawling in my skin! These wounds, they will not heal! Fear is how I fall! Confusing what is real!
Without a sense of confidence, I'm convinced That there's just too much pressure to take
And they smoke cannabis while playing skate-boards and tagging walls with obscenities.
How are you supposed to pronounce generation, it doesnt sound like they are using enough sounds for letters
The initial ‘g’ is soft, and pronounced roughly equivalently to the ‘y’ in the English word ‘you’, so it kind of blends into the following vowel here.
The final ‘tion’ is the really tricky part here. Much like how in English the same suffix gets pronounced very differently from how it’s written, in Swedish it’s pronounced roughly as if it were written ‘sjon’, with the typical sj sound being used, resulting in something roughly similar to the English word ‘hone’. You can find the same pronunciation in other places as well, such as ‘internationell’
Does this mean "Your generation WEARS black clothes"? Because it seems odd to say they have them. All generations have some black clothing. It is just a matter of how frequently they wear them.
It can mean both, but I believe it would be understood as "wears". That's what I, a native Swedish speaker, put in and it was accepted.
The people of that generation wear black clothes. 'Wears' treats people as a singular and turns it into a countries or other communities population.
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Yes, "has" is used for third person singular, so for he, she and it, as you say. In this sentence, "your generation" is an "it", so it uses "has".
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This is a case of collectives. One would say your generation has left its mark on history but it is the members of the generation that have black clothes. The team is large means it has many members; the team are large means it is composed of members who are large. This is perhaps a fine point of proper English that is fading into oblivion.
The English sentence, with "has", is valid but it does suggest the black clothes are collectively owned by the entire generation.
If the individual members of the generation have their own, personal black clothes then it really should be "have".
This seems fitting to say in Swedish, as I hear Swedes wear a lot of black :P
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As I found - sion, tion pronounces as SHUN or H(F)HUN (something middle between H and F) - depends on regions of Sweden. Also skj, stj, sj, ch give this sound. And g pronounces as J before e, i, y, ö, ä, j and when rg, lg in end of words. Sorry if I'm wrong. My recommendation is to find pronunciation rules in Swedish, it helped me a lot.
What generation was that?? Lol only goth were all about black during my generation.