"How does one get to the beach?"
Translation:Hur kommer man till stranden?
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What if you were asking the best way to travel to the beach from were you are. Something like the above?
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I'm a native speaker, and the actual translation of the sentence above is: "Hur tar man sig till stranden?" Both translations make sense idiomatically though.
Not really, it makes it sound sort of like you're asking how one performs the act of walking.
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Like when Pippi was asked if she ate with a knife and fork. She replied, "I eat the old fashioned way... with my mouth."
Not very idiomatic, but certainly grammatical. Or at least not as idiomatic. It should be accepted.
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In English if you asked "how does one get to the beach" instead of "how do I.." or "how do you..." get to the beach, you'd probably sound pompous and posh. I'm wondering if it's the same in Swedish with "hur kommer man till stranden" instead of "Hur kommer jag till stranden"
No no, it's perfectly natural Swedish, not weird or pompous in the slightest. :)
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When I first saw this sentence I thought of The Admirable Crichton. "How does one get off this beach?" :)
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ar det okej att saga "hur far man till stranden?" (sorry for the lack of special simbols)
Well, that sentence has no diacritics. :) The word far means "travel", so you can say that in the right context. It does sound a bit silly, though - like "how does one travel to the beach?"
Since you mentioned symbols, though, I suspect you wanted to ask about får - as that means "get". This cannot be used here: it only means "get" as in "receive" or "be allowed".
Wouldn't "Hur kommer man sig till stranden?" be fine? That's at least the preffered sentance structure in Norwegian (Hvordan kommer man seg til stranden?)
komma fram means to arrive, so it's fine Swedish but it doesn't really mean the same thing.
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Anyone would understand what you meant if you asked that, but in Swedish "man" is most commonly used in this context (both formally and informally, e.g. "how do YOU get to" and "how does ONE get to").
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No, and that would make it obvious that you are not a native speaker. When asking a question the word order is reversed in Swedish. (E.g. the statement "Du bor i huset." becomes the question "Bor du i huset?")