"Ni tar inte ert ansvar för barnen."
Translation:You do not take your responsibility for the children.
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I suggest the answer reads better as 'take responsibility for' rather than 'take your responsibility for'. The 'your' sounds unnatural here and should just remain implied.
It's not really something we say in English. "take responsibility" implies ownership, so it's not restated.
It seems to mean:- your share of the responsibility-but DL does not say so.
Is it just me or does this sound kind of unnatural in English? I'm trying to think of an example where I'd use this exact phrasing but can't really.
... As serious as you should. Or maybe just ... Seriously. Says the mother to the father as he helps his son into a canon for a photo op.
Should be ' you do not take responsibility for your children '. Sounds better to the English ear.
In Swedish, tar is used in a lot of places where we would use a different verb in English, like "tar en fika", I wonder if it would be a more accurate translation in English if we said something like "You do no assume/practice/uphold your responsibility of the children." Open to other suggestions. I'm wondering if that would be a more accurate translation if the desire is to keep "your".