"Det är svårt att komma på en passande mening."

Translation: It is difficult to come up with a suitable sentence.

[MauriceReeves]

The Duolingo mods have broken the fourth wall...

[SebastianN908414]

The right pronunciation is komma PÅ, not KOMMA på. The second one means something completely different...

[CsabaSndor]

I feel the pain :)

[Zmrzlina]

If I'm not mistaken, this sentence was added when Anrui and me had a skype session where he showed me how the course designer works. I was asked to come up with a sentence to add, and that was what I said, to which he replied "Yeah, that's a good one, we'll go with that". ;D

[araruney]

And it is a good one indeed,and a one which i'll be using a lot now :D

[StephenAte]

You guys are awesome!!

[Kunducs]

What's the difference between "komma på" and "komma med"? If I'm correct, they both mean "come up with"?

[devalanteriel]

Yes, but that has two different senses.

komma på is in the sense of thinking of or recalling something. Often in the lightbulb moment way.

komma med is in the sense of bringing forth, as in e.g. bringing suggestions to a committee.

[Kunducs]

I see. Thanks a lot!

[Chris-Butler]

I presume you can't use this say for punishing till exampel Oscar Pistorius?

[Zmrzlina]

Indeed, this is only a grammtical sentence. A sentence in the legal sense is en dom or ett straff.

[AndrewRJelly]

Could 'arrive at' be a suitable translation within this sentence?

[LutzvonGra]

I wonder what is closer to "komma på x": english "come up with x" or the german "auf x kommen". The German phrase is in word by word translation closer. Meanings are close but not exactly the same (i think)

[Martynek96]

Would "passable" work instead of suitable?

[devalanteriel]

No, not really. They differ too much.

[deactivated user]

Is "komma på" a partikel verb?

[devalanteriel]

Yep.

[deactivated user]

Tack!

[bigswedeej]

Why sentence and not meaning?

[devalanteriel]

It's a technically correct but not very realistic interpretation.

[bigswedeej]

Hmm. Not sure about that. I think about the difficulty in trying to translate certain words. It sure would work there.

[devalanteriel]

Fair point, but I still think the risk that people won't learn the right meaning of "sentence" that way.

[_Ravvi_]

Hello! Could someone explain me where to put the stress in the word "passande"? Here it is the first syllable that is stressed, but in the previous audio it was the second one.

[devalanteriel]

It's on the first syllable, and should always be on the first syllable. :)

[MihailDimitrov]

Why 'to find' would not work here, as it is a synonym of 'to come up with'? Same meaning, lighter structure.

[CedSgm7N]

Does the phrase "komma pa" literally translate to "come up with?" This seems like a phrase that I should have learned a long time ago. Perhaps I did, but just forgot?