"På en kräftskiva har man roliga hattar på sig."

Translation: At a crayfish party you wear funny hats.

[MedianAlco2]

What is a crayfish party?

[Emmi373612]

It's a very traditional feast around crayfish season in autumn. You sing certain songs and drink spirits. We have it in Finland as well. We also sing the songs in swedish for some reason.

[JaiiGi]

That was my first thought as well.

[the.akaneko]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayfish_party

[youssefnlse]

Hur kunde jag veta att ni översätter kräftskiva med crayfish party när ni översätter snaps och smörgåsbord med snaps och smörgåsbord... Tycker att ni även borde godkänna kräftskiva som engelsk översättning eftersom kräftskivan är ett svenskt fenomen.

[Zmrzlina]

No, the English term is actually crayfish party. Snaps and smorgasbord are also English words - albeit loanwords.

If you hover on the word in the exercise, you'll se that the translation is in fact crayfish party.

[AngelUare]

I still don't have a clue what a crayfish party is... Any help is appreciated!

[Ard678389]

https://sweden.se/culture-traditions/the-crayfish-party/

[MattBush2]

Ha ha rolig eller clown rolig?

[devalanteriel]

More like "mooooooom, you're embarrassing me!" ridiculous funny. :)

[3_Chat_Owls]

"At a crayfish party people wear funny hats" wasn't accepted. Does it sound bad? This is an English course as well...

[devalanteriel]

No, that sounds okay, and it's actually accepted. If you were marked wrong for that, either you had a spelling error and didn't realise, or there was a bug.

[retroluxsound]

in this case, can 'rolig' be translated as 'silly'?

[devalanteriel]

I don't remember if it's accepted, but it's a perfectly fine translation of lustiga - for roliga, it can be argued wither way. I'd be okay with it.

[MihailDimitrov]

Why 'one' is acceptable and 'man' is not?

[devalanteriel]

"man" in English doesn't refer to the general "you", which is what the Swedish man means here.

[uxSY4nUr]

Would "they wear" instead of "you wear" or "one wears" also be possible?

[StuartFras5]

More broadly, "man" in English means (in this sort of context) "mankind as a whole"; your version sort of implies that the entire world is at a crayfish party.

[Mokvinna]

One frequently hears Scandinavians confuse the meanings of "fun" and "funny". Could this sentence also be translated as "At a crayfish party one wears fun hats"?

[devalanteriel]

Arguably, although we tend not to accept the colloquial adjective sense of "fun".

[Nezer5]

Why on crayfish party one wears funny hats was not accepted?

[devalanteriel]

"on crayfish party" isn't grammatical in English. It'd be "on a", but that's not idiomatic.