"Hon har berättat för sina föräldrar."
Translation:She has told her parents.
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The verb berätta is constructed with the preposition för. In English you ’tell somebody about something’, in Swedish you ’tell [about] something for somebody’.
Thank you; had I just missed that so far in the sentences with this verb (completely possible!), or is it an optional addition?
Just curious if spelling bees are popular for grade schoolers. I usually mistype föräldrar at least once, like förlädrar.
No, not at all. :)
Maybe it helps to think of förälder as "fore-elder"? That's essentially its etymology anyway.
Kind of doesn't surprise me that they wouldn't be popular. Spelling bees are mostly a thing in English speaking parts of the world because we have such an insanely inconsistent N:M mapping of phonemes to graphemes, and while Swedish isn't as good as, for example, Spanish with it's near 1:1 mapping, it's still far better than English about this (other than the many forms of sje-ljudet of course, though even then most variants other than sk and sj seem to be relatively uncommon).