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- "It cannot rain all the time."
"It cannot rain all the time."
Translation:Det kan ikke regne hele tiden.
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I remember a two week downpour while I was holed up in a cabin in Laerdal, Sognefjord. I think that I may have muttered this a few times,
a day.
You use "hele" for one whole thing (such as time), "begge" for two things (such as halves, like saying 'both' I guess) and "alle" for three or more things (such as apples).
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Also in Ketchekan, Alaska …
A week without rain and people start talking drought, while wondering what that bright yellow thing in the sky is.
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Yes, seems that way, but Alaska has dropped the St. in recent decades, because people got confused.
I though ei as a negation is only a literary remnant of Old Norse? How often is it used in common speech?
That would depend on the dialect, but "ikke" is indeed vastly more common.
Regardless of dialect you will still run into "ei" in some fixed phrases ("den gang ei", "tro det eller ei"), so it's good to be aware that it can function as a negation.
does heltid just mean fulltime, and hele tiden is the whole time, and alltid is all the time yes
'Det kan ikke regne alle tiden.' Would be accepted? I'm on app so I could only choose the words order.
