"Flickan har en bok."

Translation: The girl has a book.

[Vidhula.A]

Isn't correct to write "the girl has the book "

[Anders91]

In this case no. There is a difference between just having a book, and having the book, a specific one.

If we wanted to specify a specific book, we would say Flickan har boken.

[BadAtGameFF15]

Is it correct to assume you put 'en' after words to show it is 'the'
Like pojke -> pojken
bok - > boken

[Gamar779043]

Yes. -en after Pojke is correct. And Boken would be correct if the sentence was "the book" instead of "a book". But it was just an unspecified book.

[Regdot]

Why en instead of ett?

[Anders91]

Because bok is an en-word.

[Forder23]

So, in case that for example we say ett bok, plural would be bokar not boken? This was just example of word, know that we use en bok as a correct form..

[Gamar779043]

No. In plural it would be böckerna.
Bok (book) = Böcker (books)
Boken (the book) = Böckerna (the books)

[N_Ludwig]

"Har" sounds for me like "här", and "bok" sounds like english "book". Where is the true? :)

[Caroline325904]

Would it not be correct to also translate this as, "the girl does have a book"? Granted, this would be an infrequent use of 'to have'! The system scored it as incorrect, but has/does have IS listed as a definition under "har."

[LakshitaYa]

Doulingo when do we use en or ett?

[Gamar779043]

This is something we have to just remember per work it's used for. Some rules exist like:

• N-genus is the most common genus. It's often used for living beings: en flicka, en läkare, (doctor) and en häst. But there are exceptions: ett barn and ett lejon. (lion)

• Words for plants of different kinds are almost always n-genus: en björk, (birch) en palm, en ros, en buske, (bush) en blomma. (flower) One important exception is ett träd. (tree)

• Words for days, months, seasons and the like are often n-genus: en sekund, (second) en timme, (hour) en dag, (day) en kväll, (evening) and en vecka. (week) Important exceptions are: ett år, (year) ett kvartal, (quarter) and ett sekel. (century)

• Which ending a noun ends with can also be of help, but there are many exceptions to it. Words ending with -are, -inna, -(t)ör, -log, -(n)ing, -het, -else and -tion are often n-genus: kejsare, (emperor) psykolog, (psychologist) släkting, (relative) skönhet, (beauty) and nation.

The best thing you can do learning a language with this many genus exceptions is to learn the genus along with the word.

[Noah636204]

There are no rules you just have to memorize which words are en and which are ett

[Uvis]

Why "flickan" ends in "an" and not in "en" like "pojken"?