"Det kostar hundra kronor."
Translation:It costs a hundred kronor.
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Can't I write "It costs hundred kronas."? Duolingo accepts "krona", so "kronas" should be plural.
English contexts generally prefers the Swedish plural kronor or the translated crowns.
Really? I didn't know that. Despite reading quite a lot of scandi fiction... I wonder if there's any way there could be an info bubble about this. I was sad too... Thanks for giving me the info, Zmrzlina
According to what I've been able to find: A cheapish restaurant meal, a medium-to-nice bottle of wine, a taxi ride, or a cinema ticket. http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Sweden
An english-related question: is the translation “crown” commonly used? I know that in french you use quite exclusively the translation « couronne » for thrice swedish, danish and norwegian “crowns” (and certainly others that I don't know of), but seeing it by default untranslated on Duolingo (though “crown” seems always accepted) make me doubt about english.
I would say "Krona" is more common. It's hardly scientific, but "Swedish krona" has about 22 million hits on Google to less than a million for "Swedish crowns". The results on the search page for "crowns" is generally all to pages that are titled "Krona" , until you get down to the coat of arms. That said, I think English ears tend to think krona as plural- I've never heard anyone say "kronas", let alone "kronor". If anything, I would not be surprised to hear someone refer to one krona as "one krone".
I would tend to use 'crown' as a catch-all for various currencies whose names mean that
I use "kroner" as the plural for "krona", although I don't recall where I picked up either "krona" or "kroner". For sure it was before I started this course. "kroner" isn't accepted here, although (I think?) it would be valid if this were a course in Norwegian or Danish.
It doesn't record the last two words of my answer and now I'm stuck on this question .cannot finish my lesson
The voice recognition on this question doesn't even recognize Google Translate saying it!
Are you trying to educate people into saying "krona" and "kronor" while speaking english? That seems odd to me. In french I've always heard and talked about "couronnes" for "kronor".
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Actually when I was in Sweden and talked to people in English, I usually said krona just because I think it's weird to translate a currency. When talking about the thing a king wears on his head I'd say crown of course.