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- "Pojken blir trött."
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Funny, I listened to the thing a couple of time and I was always hearing "pojken li trött" with the fast audio, and "pojken vil trött" with the turtle audio, which did not make any sense. But now that I know it is supposed be "blir", I can hear it properly with both (I don't hear the "r", of course, but that's how swedish works I guess).
French is my first language. What about you all?
Returning to it now with more Swedish, I can hear 'blir'. Random. NZ english is my first language
If you listen to the words one by one it does that. As a whole sentence it sounds just fine. Just hover over the word and tell me.
Thanks — it turns out the error was due to an auto-corrected spelling error which I hadn't spotted!
I agree with you that "The boy is tiring" is absolutely fine, and has the same meaning. We've discussed it internally as well and reached the same conclusion - that how you use "tiring" depends on where you're from.
However, we generally don't allow constructions that change POS, so since it moves from an adjective to a verb, it still won't be accepted. It's a guideline we try to enforce throughout the course, to make it easier to stick to learning the Swedish words better.
