"Drengen spiser bjørnens æble."
Translation:The boy eats the bear's apple.
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Fortunately, the bear is probably too busy drinking beer to notice.
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now, if the boy was drinking the bears BEER, it would be a much messier story
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First the children have the bear's meat and now this boy is eating the bear's apple .. I worry for my country's future generations.
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Does the genitive make the apple definite? That is a linguistical question guys, don't get filosophical with me.
I could imagine eating some apple, not to be indicated more accurately, that belongs to a bear, and translated "the boy eats an apple of the bear". Is that valid?
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I agree! The translation "the bear's apple" is i.m.h.o. synonymous with "THE apple, presently owned by THE of A bear" and not with "AN apple". What do y'all think?
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why would you!? who would risk their life to grab an apple from a bear instead of buying one!?!
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I wrote "æbler" (and it was wrong). Does the singular "æble" can be distinguished from the plural "æbler" when one hears it?
Algy met the bear. The bear met Algy. The bear grew bulgy. The bulge was Algy.
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I like Brendan_nadnerB's comment because he reminds me of an old neighbor named Brendan, he likes pokemon, and he has humor like that he just wrote
