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What is the difference between liver and bor? Is it like leben and wohnen in german, or vivere and habitare and latin, so that one is 'to be alive' and the other more like 'to reside'?
Somewhat. "Bor" specifically refers to "residing," which is less common to say in English than "living" in terms of humans residing in buildings.
Non-native speakers of Norwegian do tend to use "lever" too often, so it is better to learn "bo".
"Å bo" translates to "to live" as in "to reside". It does not mean "to live" as in "to be alive".
This is a late response, but as discussed above, å leve means "to be alive," whereas å bo means "to reside".
Im confused everytime" hvor" is next to "bor" , cause it's sound same.
Why does it sometimes pronounce the h and sometimes doesn't? Is it just how you speak the language?
You could compare it to the way the letter "k" behaves in English. Sometimes it's silent, e.g., know, knife, and sometimes it's not, e.g., keep, kernel.
In Norwegian, when "h" comes before a "v", it's silent, e.g., hvor, hvem, hvorfor, hvilke. It's also silent when it comes before a "j", e.g., hjemme, hjelpe (the "j" sounds like a "y" as in yam).
No, not if you mean to ask where he has his home. The grammar is not wrong (apart for the capital H in han), but lever is not used in this context for people. See the comment by Luke_5.1991.
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Would 'hvor lever han?' mean the same? Or is 'lever' used to define general living and not living at some place?
"Where's" has three common possible meanings:
Where is ... ?
Where has ... ?
Where does ... ?
Duolingos aim is to try and help you understand and speak languages fluently. When you think of a language, your goal should be to think of them almost interchangeably. Thinking of 'Hvor bor han' as 'Where lives he' defeats the purpose, because it is not the correct order. You would never say 'Where lives he' unless you were going for a sort of archaic impression.
Sounds fine to me, and "Hvor bor her?" (Where does here live?) wouldn't make any sense.
Would this refer to a person's address and city, or what country they are from? Or does it rely on context?
I did it once again! I heard "hun" but it should of been "han" but "hun" was again marked correct
