"Soldaterna i armén får bara äta soppa."

Translation: The soldiers in the army only get to eat soup.

[deactivated user]

Why is "The soldiers in the army MAY only eat soup." not correct?

[Yerrick]

I think that has a subtly different connotation. Anyway, they're trying to emphasize the "får (infinitive)" = "get to (infinitive)" translation in this course.

[renatamali2]

Or: get only soup to eat? Thanks.

[Arnauti]

Maybe, but a closer translation of that would be får bara soppa att äta.

[BretHudson]

Is this just a random sentence or from a certain story (historic or fictional)?

[devalanteriel]

Just a random sentence. :)

[Rakhelii]

Hi Folks! What's wrong with this translation: "The soldiers in the army are only allowed to eat soup"... ? DUO said Nej on it.

[devalanteriel]

That actually is accepted, so either you had another error or Duolingo was bugging out. :)

[Pattygee0]

The weird new 'swirly' pattern over the question/answer area seems to disable my use of the specialist characters at the bottom and just makes the question repeat itself. As I can't use the correct characters I get it marked as wrong. Is there anything I can do about it?

[4o8J4WPj]

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