"Varför ler du inte?"

Translation: Why are you not smiling?

[AnCatDubh]

‘Why don’t you stop catcalling?’

[shirki]

Thanks for this. You made me smile. Have a lingot.

[She-Ra-Ni]

<3

[Q_C]

Came here to point this out, good to see it is already so.

[Allison23215]

Never ask a stranger this question.

[Semeltin]

Varför ler du inte?

[freeboprich]

"You know it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile!"
"Yeah? And if takes more muscles to tell me that than leave me alone!"
This just made me want to listen to Bill Hicks again!

[MarkBorkBorkBork]

At first glance I thought ler was related to English leer, but it's actually related to laugh.

[StevenV13]

Jag gick till tandläkare...

[Yerrick]

Can this be a request, as in the english alternate sentence "Why don't you smile?"

[Lundgren8]

No, I think the equivalent of that would be phrased: varför inte le?

[GlennaJo]

That was my reply and it was accepted.

[SunnySundquist]

Yeah, I like Lundgren's explanation better even though I got through with, Why don't you smile. Which to me would insinuate, why don't you ever smile. Where as, Why aren't you smiling? would be like when I do something I thought was good, right, or funny, but my wife is still not smiling... :o

[Diebbro]

This is a little confusing since "ler" is similar to "lär"... Just saying :p

[Ezra746950]

Varför lär du inte? = Why aren't you learning? I ask myself that everytime i come across a new word I've learned twenty times before.

[mark230208]

Slightly disappointed with myself I'm the only person wondering why the rätt ordföljd is not varför ler inte du.... what have i forgotten?

[john65503]

With a question, the subject (du) comes before the satsadverbial (inte).

[Huguenot7]

Well, Duo, for some reason, I haven't smiled much since starting this section in Swedish about feelings... I can't imagine why. Perhaps I should go hang out with Finns to cheer myself up...

[losik55]

Why so serious?

[ThomasMial]

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[ThomasMial]

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[Carolyn114766]

I love seeing how our language still has links with the past and how meanings change. In English English to leer is taken as negative attention often smiling but with unfriendly intention.