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"Do you ski often?"
Translation:Läufst du oft Ski?
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"Läufst du oft ski?" Sounds so wrong. I have never heard that and I am a native German speaker. Right would be: "Fährst du oft ski?"
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That's exactly what I thought, too. But die Eule disagrees, which seems odd, as it allows "Sie geht manchmal Ski laufen".
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Just tried that unsuccessfully. I guess in English to go skiing is much more common than simply to ski.
"Läufst du Ski oft" is wrong? Only accepts "Läufst du oft Ski". Is the word order important? Also "Ski" is being pronounced like "Schi", for a language that's so phonetic like German it's strange.
1) The word order you used is wrong, yes, adverbs of frequency usually do not come at the end of a question.
2) Ski is a loanword from Norwegian, and there sk followed by i, j and other letters is pronounced sch / sh. The Duden allows the spelling Schi, although I've never seen anyone use that one. On an interesting side note, Ski is a cognate of German Scheit (= piece of wood).
Thank you. I had this same question and appreciate your explanation.
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I think "oft" is to "häufig" as "often" is to "frequently." They're synonyms, but the extra syllable costs a euro or dollar more. :-)
Why is "Laufst du meist Ski" wrong?
meist means "most of the time", not "often".
When we lived in Switzerland "gehen Ski laufen" was commonly used.
"Skilaufen Sie oft" Skilaufen appears to be widely used in skiing resorts and appears in dictionaries.
No meaning.
Ski machen doesn't have a meaning, like "doing ski" doesn't in English. "Do you often do ski?" wouldn't mean anything, either.
