"My career as an artist"

Translation: Min karriär som artist

[pradio]

can't it be: Min karriär som en artist?

[MarkBorkBorkBork]

I would love if one of the native speakers could explain why Swedish doesn't take an indefinite article before nouns in sentences like this. :)

[Arnauti]

Here's a link to one forum where it's discussed. Scroll down a bit or search for 'clown'. https://www.duolingo.com/comment/6122883

[ErixTheRed]

Can we get links like these to open in the mobile app? I miss out on a lot of discussions because of it.

[Arnauti]

I think Duo is working on that, but I have no idea whatsoever when it will be solved.

[person222222]

would "som en artist" have a different meaning here then or would it just be ungrammatical?

[Shiodegrd]

Still awaiting resolution

[MarkBorkBorkBork]

Thank you!

[daguipa]

Well, can any English speaker explain why English does take it? Different languages have different ways to express things, that's all.

[borja.algv]

I don't know if it really fits in here, but can you use "så" instead of "som"? I've seen phrases where they use both but I don't quite get it. What's really the difference? Thank you in advance!

[Arnauti]

It doesn't work here.
Maybe you're thinking of the construction så … som = as … as in English.
There might be other instances where there's overlap that I can't think of right now, these little words are a bit pesky.

[Trilby16]

Why? Why why why no article?

[daguipa]

Why? Why why why with article in English???