"Lådorna står i hyllan."
Translation:The boxes are on the shelf.
February 13, 2015
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Well, it depends. Things can stand, lie or sit in Swedish. Generally things in upright position will be standning, lying position will be lying and things 'stuck' onto something will be sitting.
But it doesn't have be object-specific. There is a difference between saying boken står på bordet and boken ligger på bordet, since it will then be standing or lying on the table.
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I used "stor" instead of "står" in listening exercise and it was marked as a typo. Actually, it was, but I believe it should've been marked as a mistake since it completely changes the meaning and makes the whole phrase grammatically wrong.