Topic: Norwegian (Bokmål)

"Har du nøklene til huset?"

Translation:Do you have the keys to the house?

3 years ago

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"Of the house"? Why not?

3 years ago
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I've added it as an alternative.

3 years ago
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The keys don't belong to the house (they belong to you), nor are they part of the house. They are the "house keys" or the "keys to the house".

"keys of the house" is not natural English. The only references I could find for it were from the bible (the key of the house of David), and it doesn't mean a literal key.

5 months ago
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Can you say "husets nøkler" or "husnøkler"?

3 months ago
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