"A lemon, a tomato, and a strawberry."
Translation:En citron, en tomat og et jordbær.
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Unfortunately, you don't. you just have to learn the grammatical gender for each word. I remember reading somewhere that about 70-80% of words use "en", so if in doubt, go with that and just try to remember all the "et"-words over time :)
I was just wondering this. I hope it's regularly used as I'm an avid supporter of its use in English.
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I like it in English, but I think it's fine for different languages to have different rules. My native language Dutch does not have it, and so I use it only in English and not in Dutch.
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I know Norwegian doesn't, so I suspect Danish wouldn't either, but who knows.
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I think if we make mistakes for "en"/"et" it should not just count as a typo, it is a grammatical mistake
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Perhaps later, but for now, unless you're willing to lookup each new noun outside duolingo, there's no way to know, so typo gives some needed leeway in my opinion.
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"en" is for mixed feminin and masculine gendre while "et" is neutrum. Look at the other abswers for how to use "en" and "et"!
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Both answers were identical so how was my choice incorrect and why did you put two identical answers in in the first place?
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It's just an S sound, like the first letter in "sound".
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Is there a rule or something to know where is used "et" (eg. "Jordbær"), or "en" (eg. "Citron")?
