Har du svårt att hålla reda på karaktärerna i böckerna?

English translation: Do you find it difficult to keep track of the characters in the books?

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Swedish term or phrase:	Har du svårt att hålla reda på karaktärerna i böckerna?
English translation:	Do you find it difficult to keep track of the characters in the books?
Entered by:	Mats Wiman

08:29 Jan 30, 2001

Swedish to English translations [Non-PRO]
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Swedish term or phrase: Har du svårt att hålla reda på karaktärerna i böckerna?

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John neilan

Do you find it difficult to keep track of the characters in the books?

Explanation:
It' Swedish.
hålla reda på=to keep track of
karaktär=character

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Mats Wiman
Sweden
Local time: 16:07

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Summary of answers provided

have you difficulty

Andy Bell

Do you have problems keeping track of the grades in the books?

Roald Toskedal

Do you find it difficult to keep track of the characters in the books?

Mats Wiman

Answers

1 hr

have you difficulty

Explanation:
This is Swedish - not Norwegian. i can't make an exact translation of "reda", but I think it means "already". The phrase therefore means something like

Are you already having difficulty holding the books characters.

Bear in mind I translate Norwegian not swedish. you might try putting it up to the Swedish pairing!

Andy Bell (Please click kudos if this is in any way helpful)

Andy Bell
Local time: 22:07
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 50

1 hr

Do you have problems keeping track of the grades in the books?

Explanation:
I can't figure out what books they're talking about here, but "hålla reda på" =
"Keeping track (of)", "karaktärerna"= "the grades", and "böckerna"= "the books". The language in question here is Swedish, so maybe a Swede would know what books they actually are, but I can vouch for the wording here, even though I'm a native Norwegian.

Roald Toskedal
Norway
Local time: 16:07
Native speaker of: Norwegian
PRO pts in pair: 104

3 hrs

Do you find it difficult to keep track of the characters in the books?

Explanation:
It' Swedish.
hålla reda på=to keep track of
karaktär=character

Native Swede

Mats Wiman
Sweden
Local time: 16:07
Native speaker of:

Swedish
PRO pts in pair: 1826

Grading comment

The answer was clear and concise, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much, and thanks also to other people who responded.

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