"Hur gammalt är universum?"

Translation: How old is the universe?

[TheTwiggy90]

Approximately 13.8 billion years.

[Yetanotherdrew]

Duo hasn't taught us to count to 13.8 billion in Swedish yet.

[Zmrzlina]

You see, it goes ett, två, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, åtta, nio, tio, elva, tolv, tretton, fjorton, femton, sexton, sjutton, arton, nitton, tjugo, tjugoett, tjugotvå, tjugotre...

[Snommelp]

ett, två, hoppa några, 13,8 miljarder

[Zmrzlina]

Piece of cake!

Or, in Swedish, lätt som en plätt!

[Snommelp]

How would that be pronounced, by the way? Tretton punkt åtta?

[devalanteriel]

Trivia addition to Zmrzlina's comment:

Swedish uses a thin space delimiter for separating thousands, whereas some European countries use a point. So we write 1 000 000, others write 1.000.000, and the US write 1,000,000. Mildly confusing.

And it gets worse: Sweden used to separate with dots previously, but the recommendation was changed a few decades ago. Other countries (e.g. Germany) are undergoing the same process.

Finally, it's not actually a regular space, it's the typographical thin space that's used... :)

[Zmrzlina]

Tretton komma åtta.

Swedish uses comma, not point, for all mathematics.

[jeroen.ell]

Del av tårta!

[Bluthund]

Can anyone explain the word universum? Does it mean both universe and the universe?

[Lundgren8]

A hypothetical definite form would be universumet, but we always talk about it in the indefinite as if it were a name almost.

[MattBush2]

Would that definite form be used when speaking of something like the Marvel universe? Perhaps "Det Marvel universumet"?

[Lundgren8]

Good question, I would definitely think so. I checked at Swedish Wikipedia’s article fictive universe and they write universumet as you said.

[Alkrem]

13.784 billion years, to be more precise.

[SagiEzov]

Does Swedish use the long or short scale?

[devalanteriel]

Copy-pasting myself from here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/5769082/Hon-har-en-miljon-v%C3%A4nner

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We use the long scale. I'll use numbers to ensure I don't screw up. :)

• en miljon = 1 000 000 = an English million
• en miljard = 1 000 000 000 = a modern English billion
• en biljon = 1 000 000 000 000 = a modern English trillion