"Det finns ingen natur här."

Translation: There is no natural scenery here.

[Ramsfan1]

It would be more #natural# to translate as...there is nothing natural here.

[HelenHaine]

Or change the word 'nature' perhaps? It's the use of the word 'nature' here, it's really strange. English speakers would normally say something else.

[devalanteriel]

Horribly late but I've changed this sentence now so that it better reflects what the Swedish sentence means. The new default translation is "There is no natural scenery here", and a few other variations are also accepted now.

[MattBush2]

In English one would be able to say There is no nature here to indicate that it is an unnatural or synthetic environment.

[devalanteriel]

Thanks for the input, Matt. Yes, though based on feedback on the course, natives appear to have vastly different opinions on whether that is a reasonably interpretation or not.

[Sninguistics]

T-that's a strange sentence... does it refer to metropolises and such?

[Zmrzlina]

Yes, probably to a concrete-laden cityscape.

[Namor_Votilav]

Maybe they're talking about Mars or Jupiter

[AxonnEchysttas]

Mars or Jupiter are more natural than a concrete jungle. Although one does say that since we're natural, everything we do also is. A spider's web is natural. A plane is natural.

[AbigailRaf6]

I would strongly disagree with this statement. A spider web does not change the entire ecosystem that it inhabits, whereas the buildings and inventions of humans displaces and changes the ecosystem of hundreds of different species. A natural world is one where the species of that ecosystem are existing in a symbiotic environment, and the cities that humans build are most definitely not.

[IanWitham1]

If you visit any of the stately homes of England, you will see it is surrounded by grass, and trees, and a lake or two. They look natural but they were put there by such people as Capability Brown.

You might be in a film studio. That grass is made from plastic. Those trees are made of plaster.

[armin.nz]

It would be much more sensible to translate to there is no nature here! how "natur" is translated to natural scenery, I can't get..

[SKlassen1]

I translated it as Natural beauty which was marked wrong although to me it seems pretty synonymous with natural scenery. I suppose maybe beauty is too value specific, although its hard to imagine talking about natural scenery without meaning to be aesthetically positive .

[wxfrog]

Why det finns and not det är? Natur is singular, isn't it?

[devalanteriel]

Right, but är/finns has nothing to do with number. You use finns mostly for something that's of a somewhat permanent nature, so nature fits that bill well. That said, there's a lot of overlap between är and finns, and natives will not always agree exactly on the difference.

[AbigailRaf6]

There is nothing natural here. Why is this not accepted?

[KatrinaP501697]

Natural scenery? Really? This sentence was obviously not constructed by a "natural" English speaking person.