Topic: Norwegian (Bokmål)

"De er alle kjedelige yrker."

Translation:They are all boring professions.

December 18, 2015

9 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/NicDawes

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

    December 18, 2015
    https://www.duolingo.com/alek_d
    Mod
    • 94

    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."

    December 18, 2015
    https://www.duolingo.com/Tod_Death
    • 132

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

    May 10, 2016
    https://www.duolingo.com/Deliciae
    Mod
    • 162

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

    May 10, 2016
    https://www.duolingo.com/Tod_Death
    • 132

    thx

    May 10, 2016
    https://www.duolingo.com/rose.boi

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

      March 18, 2018
      https://www.duolingo.com/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".

        September 11, 2018
        https://www.duolingo.com/Moongrovenly

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

          September 11, 2018
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