"Vi blev väl behandlade."

Translation: We were treated well.

[warmwhisper]

The robot vocie does not pronounce the word "väl" right.

[Anders969215]

The way it's pronounced here, the sentence translates to "we were treated, weren't we?".

[devalanteriel]

This appears to have been fixed now, as of July 12th, 2018.

[LenaStorli]

No, it is still there.

[devalanteriel]

Well, I'll be... it was definitely working correctly when I wrote that. But as you say, it's wrong again now.

[Arnauti]

Thanks for pointing this out.
In order for väl to mean 'well' as it is meant to do here, it must have a long ä and it should be stressed. If väl is said like this, short and unstressed, it gets another adverbial meaning – it becomes a sentence adverb that modifies not just the verb, but the whole sentence. This väl does not have a single counterpart in English. Wiktionary describes the meaning as Used to give the statement a lower degree of certainty; a begging for agreement... and gives this example: Du såg väl den filmen i går? ' You did see that movie yesterday, didn't you?'
In many cases, this väl can also be translated as I guess.

[CapdeBurro]

That form looks like French I think. "Tu as bien vu le film hier". I would never have thougt that weird forms like this could be used in languages so different.

[yellow_card]

In Italian there exists a similar form, "ben", which means "bene" dropping the final "e". Your example would be: "Hai ben visto il film, ieri?". It is often accompanied by the final interrogative word "no?".

[OsoGegenHest]

German wohl can be like that too.

In Spanish, though, I don’t think I’ve heard bien like that. They’d say Pero ayer sí que viste la película, ¿verdad?.

[Rakhelii]

Could the word "väl" also be put at the end of the sentence?

[devalanteriel]

Yes, it could.

[Rakhelii]

Thanks, devalanteriel!

[Fizzo83]

Is the constructuon with blir used because it refers to someone's action? Could we say "Vi behandlades väl?"

[devalanteriel]

Yes and yes. :)

[MihailDimitrov]

Why 'we were well taken care of' is not accepted??

[devalanteriel]

"taken care of" is omhändertagna in Swedish (or omhändertagen in the singular).

[martin.mk]

I feel that "handled" would also be an acceptable translation apart from "treated", since it's the first thing that comes to mind I suppose. Sadly, it was rejected :(

[SamPatJohn]

That was my thought. Of course, in English we talk about other people or animals being "handled", it's rarely used with the first person plural (we).

[NickFortes]

Why is "we were well treated" not accepted? As a British native English speaker I'd say this is equally idiomatic.

[devalanteriel]

That's odd, it certainly is accepted in the admin interface.