"You do not need to like it."

Translation: Du behöver inte tycka om det.

[Sven-Ska]

Why don't we include "att" here? I'm so confused. Tack.

[Zmrzlina]

This thread has some useful comments.

[dr.zZzZ]

can't access the link to the thread

[devalanteriel]

https://www.duolingo.com/comment/7075383

Better? :)

[kinj1973]

Does 'man behöver' really work here? 'Man' doesn't really mean you. It means 'people in general', doesn't it?

[Zmrzlina]

Yes, it does mean that. But since English often uses you in a general sense to express the same thing, we accept man as a translation.

[Ashtaret]

I have been taught by Swedes that "man" is not translated to English as "generic you", but rather as "one", used as "one doesn't have to do X" or "one typically does Y". I think this should be differentiated here.

[Arnauti]

We use man much more often in generic sentences than they use one in English, so sometimes we'd really say man when they'd say you in English. Still, we try to have one as the main English sentence for man in order to avoid confusion, but man should be accepted in cases like this sentence.

[kinj1973]

this makes more sense to me.

[arierlj]

yes, it is. But sometimes it also can be used to mean you.

[TomMCauser]

I typed in "Du behöver inte att gilla det." - Is this wrong for a reason?

[devalanteriel]

behöver is a modal verb, so you don't use the infinitive marker. In addition, please see Zmzlina's link above. It's a great post really.

[TomMCauser]

Ah, fantastic. I've just learned this and now see the error. Thank you so much.

[SkepticOwl]

Why is tycka om used instead of tycker om?

[devalanteriel]

behöver is a modal verb, so the infinitive is used. :)

[SkepticOwl]

Thank you! :)

[SvenskaElev]

This has really been confusing me also.

[Thyra443655]

Can it also mean: you do not need to think about it ?

[devalanteriel]

If you emphasise the tycka, it can mean "you don't need to have an opinion about it", but even then it would probably not be phrased that exact way. So it's a case of "technically yes, but in practice no".