A grammar question

[Mary Ellen Leveille]

I know that the Swedish translation of puppy dog is hund valpe.  But if you wanted to say the puppy dog, would it be hunden valpe or hund valpen or hunden valpen? Also what would be the plural?
Thank you
 
Mary Ellen Leveille

[Benitha Engström]

puppy dog = hundvalp
puppy dogs = hundvalpar
the puppy dog = hundvalpen
the puppy dogs = hundvalpar

[Anders Karlsson]

The last line in Benitha Engström's contribution is unfortunately wrong. It should be:
 
the puppy dogs = hundvalparna
 
Anders Karlsson

[Berit Tjernberg]

the puppy dogs = hundvalparna

[Imola]

hi! i'm wondering, do swedish language has tongue twisters?!?
imola

[Stig Hansson]

Imola
 
Course we have. Sju sjösjuka sjömän.... as an example. Seven seasik sailors... in english
Stig

[Elisabet Arvidsson]

or sex laxar i en laxask ..= six salmon in a box of salmon.
 
X= sounds KS
 
Elisabet

[Ingela Martenius]

Some examples of Swedish tongue-twisters:
 
* Sju sjösjuka sjöman sköttes av sju undersköna sköterskor på det sjunkande skeppet Shanghai.
(Seven seasick sailors were cared for by seven beautiful nurses aboard the sinking ship Shanghai.)
The problem is the variation of the sh-sound (sj, sk, sh - spelling/prononciation variations also include stj, sch and tj).
 
* Packa pappas kappsäck.
(Pack daddy's carpetbag.)
The problem is the shift between p and k.
 
* Sex laxar i en laxask.
(Six salmons in a salmon box (salmon box is a made-up word).)
The problem is the shift between all those xs and the singel sk at the end.
 
Ingela

[Stig Geber]

another is typiskt västkustskt = typically from the west coast
 
Stig G

[Imola]

thanks Ingela for the examples, I found some to but not mutch, and they are 'heavy'...  
 
Mola