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"Do you ski often?"
Translation:Läufst du oft Ski?
September 23, 2017
22 Comments
Tim952328
381
That's exactly what I thought, too. But die Eule disagrees, which seems odd, as it allows "Sie geht manchmal Ski laufen".
lucy163354
190
Just tried that unsuccessfully. I guess in English to go skiing is much more common than simply to ski.
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).
Doctor-John
203
I think "oft" is to "häufig" as "often" is to "frequently." They're synonyms, but the extra syllable costs a euro or dollar more. :-)