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"Do I have a child?"
Translation:Har jeg et barn?
August 18, 2015
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JaikeVe
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Any feminine noun can be used as a masculine noun in Bokmål, but it's not very common to do that consistently. It's also less common to do that with definite articles than with indefinite articles.
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To form a question in Norwegian, the subject and the verb have to switch places.
- Jeg har et barn. (I have a child.) [S+V+O]
- Har jeg et barn? (Do I have a child?) [V+S+O]
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No, because "a child" translates to et barn (neuter gender). But you could say Jeg har en gutt (I have a boy) because en gutt is masculine.
Only ei (feminine) and en are interchangeable when referring to feminine nouns (ei kvinne, en kvinne), not et.