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I don't have the impression that föddes is more common.
There's a difference in meaning, where är/var född focus on the 'result' but föddes is used in descriptive contexts where you want to talk about the circumstances around the birth or as a part of storytelling. So you might see that more often in stories, but when telling people what year you were born, är född is the most natural choice.
föddes works for both living and dead subjects, since there's no focus on the 'result' in this case, it's a 'process oriented' way of talking about it.
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How would you say 1890? Nittiotalet, if your were talking of the 19th century? In other words, when you refer to the last two digits, how do you distinguish one century from another?
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Nice question. I think that the next century started in 1900. So nittiotalet av artonhundratalet is from 1890 till 1899 (1899 included). How do you call the first decade of a century (in English and Swedish)? The zeroties?
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If I remember correctly, the two members of Icona Pop were born in the '80s, so their line about being a '90s b***h I think actually refers to them growing up in the '90s - like myself, as I too refer to myself as a '90s kid because that's when I grew up. :)
I would suggest bringing that up in the troubleshooting forums: https://forum.duolingo.com/topic/647
We have zero say over the voice recognition software in the course.
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So you can never say 'I am born in the nineties', in Swedish? In Dutch and German using present tense makes perfect sense?
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In Swedish jag är född (present tense), but in English "I was born" (past tense). Dutch and German work the same as Swedish, English differs.