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"Kvinden har ikke drukket vin siden hun blev fyrre."
Translation:The woman has not drunk wine since she became forty.
4 years ago
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Adam470
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Surely this is an acceptable translation? It sounds rather stilted, in my part of England at least, to say "became forty".
4 years ago
MadsLarsen2
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The pronounation sounds completely wrong with the word "fyrre". As a native Dane I had no idea what the supposed word was. That should be changed.
3 years ago
yeahbuddy34
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Should be forty, it's not even a British english vs American english thing apparently http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=744395
4 years ago
bjarkehs
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You are right, this has now been corrected. We apologize for the inconvenience.
4 years ago
