"Man bader i et badekar og dusjer i en dusj."
Translation:One bathes in a bathtub and showers in a shower.
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Interestingly, Russian also uses the word "douche" (душ) for shower. It's fascinating that the word came to mean just one kind of shower in the US (female only)...
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I had to check it with google.translate and it's douche in English (more often not referring to a shower, but more the activity of showering something) and Dusche in German. According to my favourite Norwegian on-line encyclopaedia snl.no the etymology of the word states it from Italy meaning "water pipe" (or "vannrør" as it says in Norwegian).
edit: added comment. Read the comments below. Douche has an exclusive meaning...
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Ah, yes, so my Oxford advanced learner's dictionary tell me as well:-P Not a good idea to trust google.translate blindly it seems. (Douche has the same meaning in both NAmE and BrE, says my Oxford)
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Thanks, Linn. I'm sorry =/ I'll just try to avoid being crass for humor's sake on here from now on. I didn't realize how offensive that word is until it was too late -_-
Wow, thank you so much for mentioning snl.no! I hadn't come across it before but can see how useful it will be in the future.
Gee whiz, I thought I spoke English and I would never say stall after shower. Duolingo seems to be good at making me think about sentence constructions which are technically correct but usually avoided because they sound odd; such as "The writer writes", "The nurse nurses", "The reader reads" and so on.
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I'm a native English speaker and I would never say "shower stall" unless I was specifically referring to a specific public shower, like if I were camping. (Ex. I left my towel in the second shower stall.) My shower at home is just a shower, not a shower stall.
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And some people race in their bathtub! http://www.bathtubbing.com/championship-race/official-rules/
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Can you say, "jeg bader i en dusj"? In English that would be okay, but not the other way around (you can bathe in a bath or a shower, but you can't shower in a bath).
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The word 'bath' is accepted. Your answer might have been marked wrong because you left out the article (a bath).