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"Jeg har valgt en annen vei enn mine foreldre."
Translation:I have chosen a different path than my parents.
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"Another [...] than" sounds really clunky to me, and dare I say it a little bit "American" - is it common in AE? To me nothing other than "from" sounds right here.
The example sentence sounds fine to me, an American English speaker.
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This is a good guide: https://www.lexico.com/grammar/different-from-than-or-to . US uses 'than, UK uses 'to' and both use 'from'.
different from, different than, different to. I switch between the first two, based on some rule I haven't been able to figure out. Different to sounds British or at least non North American, but I see it and hear it with a fair amount of frequency. It's like on line versus in line. North American English speaker.
It depends! It could be either, depending on the implied word at the end of the sentence.
So either: I have chosen a different path than my parents (have/did)
Or: I have chosen a different path to my parents' (path)
I don't know if there's any way of telling which of these two is the correct translation, or if there's even any difference in Norwegian.
(I'm a native Brit, btw)
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If you think in terms of, "I have chosen a different path than my parents have chosen," it should sound better to you. It's not strictly an "American" thing.
It sounds like there's a "d" sound right before "enn." This is a mistake, right?
Perhaps if "parents" were possessive, "parents'", it might be clearer? Referencing back to parents' path?
I think the reason it doesn't have an apostrophe is because it's implying, "I have chosen a different path than my parents have (chosen)."
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Why "I have chosen an another way than my parents" is wrong? Is it grammatically wrong in English?
It is. The an in another started out as an, so you are repeating the same article twice, not something we do in english
