"The woman is eating."
Translation:Kvinnan äter.
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There's no continuous form in Swedish – both 'the woman eats' and 'the woman is eating' will be kvinnan äter.
WE can all agree that Icelandic is the most rebellious one in the Norse group
-Swedish: kvinnan äter
-Norwegian Bokmål: kvinnen spiser
-Icelandic: KONAN ER AÐ BORÐA
You don't have to. It's a fact that they're more conservative. However, you can also look at Faroese, which is probably as conservative too
käkar is a colloquial/slangy word for 'eats'. So it means the same but it's pretty slangy.
Not really: Kvinna means woman while Kvinnan means the woman. It's still all singular, it's just a bit more specific.
No ...no it was me. Sorry, I was totally wrong. You were right, (now that I think about it.) Sorry, I rushed into error.
They were asking for En kvinna - a woman, but then replied the correct answer was Kvinnan- The woman.
Duo you tricked me. (Not good!) I think this one is Duo's mistake.
I agree the question was woman, but they wrote in the answer box women. Opps!
How do we know when someone is saying "the woman is eating" or "the woman eats" in conversation. Is it the context of the conversation that hints at what the sentence means??
Yeah, i mean, in danish its also the same. There is no "is eating" and you kinda just know.
Why is this one Kvinnan not En kvinna (En kvinna was used for "a woman"). Is there just no Swedish equivalent of "the"?
This will get more complicated later, but yes in the most simplest form, "the" is indicated in Swedish with a suffix, not with a word.
No, it can be a E as lEtter, bEtter or fEther, or sound like the a in bad or sad.
