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- "Do I have a child?"
"Do I have a child?"
Translation:Har jeg et barn?
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Et is neuter and En is masculine. Ei would be feminine.
Do I have a child - Har jeg et barn
Do I have a dog - Har jeg en hund
Do I have a crow - Har jeg ei kråke
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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.
This very much depends on the word; some feminine nouns are almost always inflected as a masculine noun, such as 'kvinne' or 'løve', while for other words it's mixed, and depends on the dialect of the speaker.
Is it like in Spanish where every word is either masculine and feminine?
I may, possibly, there is a slight chance I have a kid and did not know it? :'D
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]
Isnt the norwegian sentence structure Subject-Verb-Adj so Jeg har et barn?
It's possible to write your questions like that, but it is more common with verb-subject-object, starting a sentence with a verb immediately tells the listener you're asking a question. Jeg har et barn? also has a greater element of surprise in it, rather than just asking for confirmation.
I think the person is answering a question with a question. Person #1: Do you have a child? Person #2: Do I have a child? Could be sarcastically answering a dumb question with a question.
In our country, this is almost a typical situation for some men who do not even know about their children, unfortunately
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.
