"Man bader i et badekar og dusjer i en dusj."

Translation: One bathes in a bathtub and showers in a shower.

[Panthera4]

Man kan dusje i et badekar.

[NuggetPls]

Sant, der jeg bor finnes det bare dusjer i badekar og det er ganske sjelden å ha både en dusj og et badekar

[Cassandra983]

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)...

[brendolinif]

Dusj is very similar to the french word for a shower, douche. Very odd connection.

[grydolva]

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...

[brendolinif]

I did not know another word for shower was douche in english!

[mhaines82009]

Um. Yeah. Its not. Its fairly exclusively used for cleaning female genitalia in American English.

[grydolva]

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)

[mhaines82009]

That's one mistake that could certainly be... either really entertaining or really embarrassing, depending on circumstances.

[NilMarkas]

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 -_-

[Deliciae]

Vredesbyrd: I believe I deleted a post of yours with swearing in it yesterday, so you don't have to worry about it still floating around.

[seanmcd33]

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.

[Tattamin]

It seems that "shower stall" is not accepted (I did report it) for "dusj". I find the English sentence a bit weird without "stall" - "shower in a shower".

[johndelaroo]

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.

[porcupineteapot]

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.

[Kayla-Marie17]

Shocked beyond belief

[LeftOverRight]

And some people race in their bathtub! http://www.bathtubbing.com/championship-race/official-rules/

[JArgeles]

Oh! I totally didn't know that...

[porcupineteapot]

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).

[Candidandelion]

I've never heard anyone say they bathe in the shower!

[AlatheaAnd]

You can certainly shower in a bath, if the shower head is fitted over the bath.

[Candidandelion]

That's what I do.

[Ruth313145]

I never use the word 'bathtub', only 'bath'. Surely that should be accepted?

[Candidandelion]

It is.