"Rakhyvlarna är slut."
Translation:We are out of razors.
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Good question, I think in this case it is the past participle from the verb 'att sluta' and not an adjective, but i'm not sure either.
'Slut' is an invariable adjective. Cf. https://svenska.se/tre/?sok=slut&pz=1 ('ingen böjning' = no inflection).
I know it is more convenient in English to say 'We are out of razors.' but in other cases should we ignore that -arna makes it the razors?
We had a super long discussion about this on another sentence forum, maybe it helps, if not, ask again! https://www.duolingo.com/comment/6058122
In that discussion you also mentioned that the construction of the translated sentence is perhaps not the best. For this one I put "the razors are finished" which was marked as wrong. Surely that would be a closer translation though (in terms of word order or sentence structure)?
I think it's also worth mentioning that there is no possessive term in the Swedish sentence, so the "preferred" English answer is misleading. Also, as a native English speaker, I think it's perfectly normal to state either "the razors are finished" or "there's no more razors" without abstracting another sentence that has an entirely different form.
I don't think it's misleading, my first interpretation of this type of construction is actually that it's your own things you're talking about. Just like we say Jag borstar tänderna but you say I brush my teeth. I've added the version with finished though, since that's also ok.
How do you specify that "we" are out of razors rather than "I" am out razors?
Yes, I also wrote this as a literal translation, it's a bit irritating that it's not accepted.
This was also my answer- I'm guessing that the razors have specifically "run out"? rather than being generally "gone" or "misplaced"
Yes, gone would be borta in Swedish. slut really means we're out of them, they're finished, we don't have any more of them.
This is another one of those cases where I have to remember what DL does and does not accept. Oroa inte! I won't comment on all of them. I just wanted to point out that in English we definitely use "gone" in this context to mean "run out of".
Yes, I've since realized that this works at least in some versions of English. I should just have said that gone is ambiguous in this sentence in English. I've added 'gone' here. We have some other suggestions for accepted answers too but I don't know which ones to accept, so I'll leave it to the native English speakers on the team to decide. Do report more (via the Report a problem button).
I wrote "The razors are finished" and it was accepted, but this is a very awkward English sentence that no one would say.
I put 'the razors are finished' because I figured it's what Duolingo wants. But yes, I'm a native Englush speaker and nobody would say this in this way.
One of the best reasons to learn swedish coming from another germanic language (dutch) is to see native english speakers being hella confused about some of the swedish sentence structures :p in dutch we also say "de scheermessen zijn op" which helps immensily to remember this
Very true! Lucky you! I think thats why English speakers tend to have a very hard time learning new languages because everything is so different to our language. Atleast I grew up with Portuguese aswell which unlocks romance languages to me! (:
I am hoping that by learning Swedish eventually, that will unlock German and Dutch to me aswell (:
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Same! Although it doesn't solve the problem of how to phrase it in English then. I wrote "there are no more razors" and it was wrong :/
True, i have noticed that also! Sometimes Flemish dialect also helps to remember some worde and sentences
I answered "the razors are sold out" since "the razors are out" is quite a nonsensical sentence or at least doesn't specify that the razors are sold out (maybe the razors are out on the table or out of the packet)
The "correct" answer, "We are out of razors", is not the only correct answer. It could be correct in the right context, but this little exercise has no context. Yes, you gave us a group of words to use, but you also gave us the opportunity to use the keyboard and the original text "Rakhyvlarna är slut" does not imply that we are talking about in our home, it just there there are no razors. "There are no razors" is a valid translation of the short, Swedish text. My wife steps angrily out of the bathroom and growls, "There are no razors"!
It doesn't accept "The razors have run out." Should it accept that?
Ive noticed that it is common to add in words that arnt there but why do so when the direct translation makes perfect sense and any embellishment only adds confusion? I put in "The razors are gone", which was accepted as correct.
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"we are out of the razors" might be said by the clerk at the store, if he is talking about a brand. Thus the definite translation
the razors are out isnt accepted? is just a variation of " we are out of razors" What did you say" I said the razors are out". Its all the same thing so why is it not accepted?
Does the Swedish sentence mention who owns the razors? Because the English translation is given as "we are out of razors". And it is confusing me!
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to be slut can mean to be tired. how about har tagit slut to explicitly say that they have run out? Rakhyvlarna har tagit slut.
Am I losing it, or is there a little knocking sound when she says rakhyvlarna
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I wrote "there are no more razors" and I think that should be accepted? (I did make a typo though)
