"Den stolte gutten spiser altfor mye."
Translation:The proud boy is eating far too much.
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Is stolte proud as in arrogant or like confident or like lgbt proud or what?? Is it a good thing or bad thing or can be used either way??
It could be pride in a positive sense or it could be arrogance.
You can certainly be gay and "stolt" in Norwegian too, but that's not the association a sentence like this would conjure.
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"The proud boy eats too much" was not accepted. The continuous verb form aside, is this because altfor conveys a sense of 'way too much' or 'far too much,' and my original translation of 'too much' just isn't, well, superlative enough? :)
Ok then, takk:) I'm just not really sure about the this/that/these/those thing.
this = denne (m/f), dette (n)
that = den (m/f), det (n)
these = disse
those = de
Oooh it's clear now, thank you so much, I was just looking for an explanation like that! :) Get a lingot:)
have another lingot because this has been bugging me for a while but I couldn't seem to see it explained anywhere. Thank you :)
Also in a sentence like "det store hus" it could mean either the/that big house it's hard to tell as a learner but in most cases det is said harsher or intensified to mean specifically That and not The.
It's not accepted, but only because it's a bit awkward English and we already accept six other variants for "altfor mye".
"Altfor" can not stand on its own, it's always "altfor [adjective]", just like with "too" in English.
because it seems to me that is is always the case, and mandatory, in the definite form to qualify something :
den store byen - the big city
den unge jenta - the young girl
det store huset - the big house
det gamle museet - the old museum
and so also Den stolte gutten - the proud boy
Yes, for the definite form you use "stolte". You'd also use "stolte" for plural (definite and indefinite).
I'll always use "the boy" when den or det comes on the sentence? Like "Den stolte gutten" ?
Yes, you will almost always use the definite version of the noun after a determiner such as "den" or "det".
The exception is certain proper nouns which were coined when Norway was under Danish influence. Examples being "Det hvite hus" and "Det kongelige slott".
May I know who and why decided that 'The proud boy eats too much' is wrong?!
It's missing the intensifier. "Altfor" translates to "far too", "much too" or "way too", while "for" translates to just "too".
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Why is 'too much' not accepted? There is no much difference with 'way too much', and it seems that only in this course this expression is so much emphasized.
No, if someone put "altfor" in the sentence, then it needs a translation.
Combining dictionaries:
Norwegian -> German: stolt = stolz (proud, no problem here), stattlich
German -> English: stattlich as in "ein stattlicher Mann" = "a strapping [or powerfully built] man"
Does this actually work in Norwegian as in
den stolte gutten = the strapping boy or the powerfully built boy ?
(especially as we know he is eating way too much ;-) )
sometimes the system wants that kind of phrases as "much too" in that order, and other times wants "too much"
why are we using "den" here when "gutten" is already applied ?? I haven't been able to find anywhere online an article that talks about den being used as the.
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Because "eat" is a plural form and "the proud boy" is singular. You need "eats" which is the singular form.
"That proud boy eats too much" was marked wrong. Should it be correct, or are they different?