"De er alle kjedelige yrker."

Translation: They are all boring professions.

[NicDawes]

Is it more common to use the word "profession" rather than "job" in Bokmål?

[alek_d]

They mean different things. "Yrke/profesjon" is a trade or profession, "arbeid/jobb" is an employment relationship, "Lege er et yrke med høy status." "Jeg hadde en slitsom dag på jobben."

[rose.boi]

Yrker is probably the most unusual and possibly foreign word I've heard in Norwegian so far

[Moongrovenly]

Yrke comes from Old Norse yrki - work or occupation, descended from a proto-Germanic word among whose other descendants are the English words "work" and "irk".

[TARDISToni]

How telling that 'work' and 'irk' are related words. ;-)

[SokratisMp]

as many English words. Don't forget that during the Viking Era Great Britain was invaded several times and of course the Old Norse language along.

[Moongrovenly]

Reference: wiktionary is quite helpful for following etymology like this.

[Tod_Death]

Can "de" not mean "these" and "those"? What's the difference anyways?

[Deliciae]

It can mean "those", but "these" is the translation of "disse".

[Tod_Death]

thx

[Aless552555]

Wouldn't "those" be the better translation for "De" in this sentence? "they" sounds strange to me because it is about the profession (job) and not about the professionals (people) ? I hope you understand me.