"Är du född på nittonhundratalet?"
Translation:Were you born in the twentieth century?
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Please use the flag to report this problem. Everyone has the same problem.
For now - to escape this sentence and in order to finish the lesson - use the button "cannot speak now". and you won't get speaking exercises for one hour :-(.
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Is there ever a time where using past tense for a living person makes sense? some nuance? I only ask because of a passage in Larsson's Män som hatar kvinnor. An older man is talking and he says " Isabella var född 1928 och lever fortfarande."
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It confused me for a time too until I thought about it. Years 1-100 is one century, corresponding to the 1st century as such years 101-200 would be the second century and so on and so forth.
I agree, as a native Americanish speaker, "the nineteen hundreds" has kind of a loosey-goosey "1900-1919" feeling, followed by the 'nineteen twenties,' followed by the 'nineteen thirties,' etc. I've never heard anyone say "the nineteen teens." However, back in the 20th century, I did hear those years referred to as "the teens," but that's when they were almost a century behind us. Now that we've gone through our own 'teens,' I don't hear that any more.
877
The audio refuses to accept the pronunciation of nittonhundratalet! Even when I recorded the original audio and played it back as the response!
1370
The same happened a few days ago, when I was trying to speak this sentence; several attempts but none accepted. Did you write an error report (flag)?
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This exercise simply will not accept my pronunciation of "nittonhundratalet" and it also will not stop prompting me to try again! I am pretty sure I am pronouncing it as the example given. How do I skip it and be done with this lesson?
1370
That happened to me once too. The only way to "escape" was by using the button "I can not speak now" (I don't know the exact text).
877
Very annoyed that this refuses to accept the pronunciation for nittonhundratalet! I has lost count of the number of times I have tried this in recent weeks with rejection every time! There is a software fault here that is not being addressed!!
If i say the phrase 'ar du född på nittonhundratalet' in any way, shaoe, or intonation that i can think of, it marks the 'nittonhundratalet' as red i.e. as wrong and the rest is green. I thought it was me. So i tried and tried. Then I got bored trying, and then cross. Then i tried saying 'this is total ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤' and, guess what?, it marked 'ar du född på' as green and 'nittonhundratalet' as red. Go figure.
It's a question of a result that still remains or not. Like, Dörren är stängd 'The door is closed' – the result of the action of closing it still remains. Dörren var stängd 'The door was closed' – either this is a part of a narrative wholly in the past, or the door is no longer closed, i.e. the result of the closing action no longer remains.