"Hon har många fotografier på väggen."

Translation: She has a lot of photographs on the wall.

[sustained]

"She has many pictures on the wall" should maybe be accepted because in England, at least where I come from, people do not say that there is a photo on the fireplace or on the wall or wherever.

If it is framed then it is a picture.

[StevenV13]

I agree. It is much more common to say 'can I take your picture' than 'can i take your photo'.

[devalanteriel]

I've added that now. Some 40 people should be getting emails about their translation being accepted shortly. :)

[CapdeBurro]

So, is it like kort in the way that photgrafi på något can be a photography of something?

[Lundgren8]

You could use på but for fotografi it’s actually maybe more common to say fotografi av något.

[CapdeBurro]

But av doesn't work with kort? What about bild?

[Lundgren8]

Either works with bild.

[CapdeBurro]

En bild på en vägg could be either a picture of a wall or a picture on a wall? :p

[Lundgren8]

That’s correct, if you say vägg (väg means ’road’).

Similarly jag fick en bild av Picasso could be either ’I received a picture of Picasso’ (it’s him on the picture), ’…a picture by Picasso’ (he took the picture) or ’…a picture from Picasso’ (he gave it to me).

[CapdeBurro]

Love this.

[deactivated user]

She has many photographs on the wall? Why is this not accepted?

[devalanteriel]

That's odd; it's definitely accepted. Either you made an error or there was a bug.

[hiro934956]

"väggen" and "vägen"
They sound, as far as my ears go, so similar it's often difficult to distinguish one from the other. Is there a clear difference between them? How can I understand the difference, if there is such a difference at all?

[devalanteriel]

vägen uses a long vowel and väggen a short one, so they're hard for natives to confuse. Would you like me to make a recording of the difference?

[hiro934956]

Long and short, I see. How long or short, I wonder. Yes, a clear recording of the difference, please, if it is not cumbersome to do it. It will make my Swedish learning a bit more comfortable and confident. Thank you very much.

[devalanteriel]

Here you go: http://duolingo.vydea.io/vagen-vaggen.mp3

I hope that's clear enough. I have chronic sinusitis nowadays so my voice doesn't always work as well as I'd like it to.

[hiro934956]

Tack så mycket. One is really long and rather slow, isn´t it. This longer one has only one "g", right?

The shorter one has a double g, whose fact makes me feel like pronoucing them quickly as if there were just one g.

[devalanteriel]

That's correct. You can think of it as the difference between "seat" and "sit" in English as well, if that helps.

Swedish uses double consonants to mark a short vowel. It doesn't work every time, and it can get confusing with polysyllabic words, loans, etc., but it's usually accurate.

[DianPos]

Thank you so much devalanteriel. This is super helpful

[impy_imp]

She has many photographers on the wall because she's a bit of a serial killer with a thing against photographers...

[devalanteriel]

I should very much like to see the comments on that sentence. :)