"What are you laughing at?"
Translation:Vad skrattar du åt?
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At least in everyday conversation, yes. It might work in poetry, but you would probably get some odd looks if you used it in real life, so to speak.
Can you please explain what would be a more correct way of saying that, in this case?
My guess is that the official answer is the more natural way to say it: "Vad skrattar du åt".
"Åt vad skrattar du" is probably odd in the same way as "At what are you laughing" is odd except maybe in poetry or super-formal writing (assuming there's any scenario where you'd be talking about laughing in super-formal writing ... :-)
No real reason I think other than that it simply isn't. Prepositions are tricky like that, they don't always translate neatly.
Why is it skrattar and not skratta? I think I saw a comment somewhere else about gå being "infinite" and går being present, does that principle apply here also?
Ι wrote "vad scrattar du till" and it marked it as wrong... I try to understang here... There isn't a rule for this actually... we have to learn by heart what preposition aplies to which sentence?
Or at least to which construction or word. I mean, all languages work like that.
"Vad är det att du skrattar åt?" was not accepted. Where did I go wrong? (Oh, I did spell skrattar as skratter though. Was that enough or is it just the wrong way to say it?)