"Min farmor och farfar är finländare."

Translation: My grandmother and grandfather are Finns.

[TheBigE1980]

"are Finnish" should be accepted.

[Lundgren8]

I guess the point of this sentence is teaching the noun finländare (Finn) rather than the adjective finländsk (Finnish).

[FiskeFinne]

I've learned that finnar means Finns (people of Finnish culture and language), while finländare means Finlanders (people of Finland including the Fenno-Swedes). Is that correct, or does that distinction perhaps only exist in Finland?

[Zmrzlina]

It does exist in Sweden too, but Swedes usually don't practice the difference to the extent that Finlanders do.

[Finlandia1865]

You can be a finn (noun.) but being Finish is an adjective. (e. g. I'm a finn and I'm Finish)

[Hallo688493]

Can someone explain when to capitalise names? I feel like it changes in every sentence, sometimes it's Tyskland, then tyskland, it's Stockholm, then stockholm. Are both correct?

[Dang-Vinh]

Only the country names are capitalized, e.g., Tyskland, Sverige, Finland. Everything else is lower case, e.g., tyska, svensk, finländere

[4oYBIxtO]

And place names

[wainwra]

And Grandad?

[wainwra]

Whats wrong with Granny?

[jinguist]

Pretty sure Duo accepts granny, grandpa etc in other exercises, why not here?

[MaranataMan]

"My paternal grandmother and paternal grandfather are Finns" shoud be accepted for consistency's sake.

[Finlandia1865]

Im finish myself and ive never heard anyone calls finish people "Finlanders". Is it just me?

[XHawk87]

I've always disliked that the translation of familial relations like 'farmor' lose information when translated to the English 'grandmother'. What if it's relevant which grandmother? I think 'paternal grandmother' should also be accepted

[WM000777]

Correct English is to say my grandparents

[4oYBIxtO]

I would understand this to mean all of my four grandparents.