"Det var en rolig fest!"
Translation:It was a fun party!
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Ok I am having the hardest time figuring out how swedish gets by as a language without a distinction between funny and fun. Det var en rolig fest "It was a fun part/It was a funny party" This game is so much fun! (addicting) "Denna spelen är så rolig" ? The game is not at all funny, but it is so much fun to play, how do people not get confused?
That's a good view. It depends on how you bend the word, fun - rolig, the party was fun - festen var rolig, this game is so much fun- Det här spelet är så roligt (the "t").
Funny how this sentance would have a totally different meaning in Norwegian. In Norwegian "rolig" means "calm"
There are still many English speakers (not in the U.S.) who don't use 'fun' as an adjective before a noun. They might say, "The party was fun" but not "It was a fun party." I would prefer to say the former or "It was an enjoyable party." I would be very happy if classic, grammatical English were also accepted by Duolingo, and not just United States English.
Again, the simpler way to translate this would be 'The party was fun', since 'fun' is not an adjective.
That is indeed the traditional view, but English has changed beyond that. Most if not all modern major dictionaries do list the adjective sense. Quoting Oxford here:
The use of fun as an adjective meaning ‘enjoyable,’ as in we had a fun evening, is now established in informal use. The comparative and superlative forms funner and funnest are sometimes used but should be restricted to very informal contexts.
We do accept "funny" here as well, though. Besides, in "The party was fun", the word "fun" is an adjective - predicative through the copula "was".
To prescriptivists I say: boooooooooo.
Fun is an adjective. It's been used that way for decades at least. Just because dictionaries have failed to notice doesn't make it not so.
I hear it as "Det va e rolig fest.", is that the standard in casual speech?
Maybe in some dialects, but I think I hear at least a trace of the n in en in most dialects. The r in var is rarely heard though.
Only det is okay here, never den. It's because it's the general "it" Swedish uses as a placeholder.
Shouldn't "It was an amusing party!" be OK as a translation? I'm just trying to better understand what's the general meaning (and use) of "rolig".
Don't know if it should be an accepted answer, but amusing is more like underhållande so the suggested translation is better.
kul works too, makes no difference in this case.
rolig means both funny and fun and then some.
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I have heard skoj used to mean "fun", t.ex. Det var jätteskoj. Is this synonymous with kul and rolig.
Yes, it is a synonym, but I would say it's more rarely used, especially among younger people.