"Hvem elsker dere?"
Translation:Who loves you?
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I feel like learning Norwegian on Duolingo is getting very depressing and philosophical.
How then do you clarify between "who loves you (pl.)" and "who do you (pl.) love"..!?
You could include "er det som" as a way to make it unambiguous.
- Hvem er det som elsker dere?
- Who loves you?
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- Hvem er det som dere elsker?
- Who(m) do you love?
The last would be "Hvem er det dere elsker?". 'som' should be omitted here.
In my dialect I would just say "Hvem dere elsker".
This reminds me of frozen "oh anna if only there was someone who loved you"
Some English verbs aren't generally used in their present continuous form because of the "immediateness" of that form. Like, love, hate and prefer are some examples.
"Hvem elsker dere" = "Who do you (plural) love?" or "Who loves you (plural)?
"Hvem elsker deg" = "Who loves you (singular)?"
"Hvem elsker du?" = "Who do you (singular) love?"
"Hvem elsker de?" = "Who do they love?"
"Dere" is both the subject and object form of the plural "you". "Deg" is the object form of the singular "you". "De" translates to "they".
Why does Duo not distinguish 'dere' & 'du' as 'y'all' & 'you', it seems they are just interchangeable for 'you'
Doesn't ''du'' mean ''you'' as well? So why am I supposed to use ''dere'' here?
In this sentence, "you," is an object pronoun, so you have to use "deg" rather than "du." "Du" is a subject pronoun, whereas "deg" is an object pronoun. They work the same way as "I" and "me" in English. E.g., "Who loves me," rather than, "Who loves I?"
I typed who do you love and it's correct? I don't see how is it possible to be correct, someone?
