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- "Er det dig?"
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This is probably a bug in the Text-to-Speech software Duolingo is using. I forgot its name. We have to wait for a bug fix
Du is when "you" is the subject of the sentence. Dig is when "you" is the object of the sentence. With that particular word, English makes no distinction, but Danish does (as do many other languages).
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But "you" is not an object, but the subject here! The verb is "to be", and "to be" never takes an object. So I am confused. It is as though one would say in German "ist es dich?" instead of "bist du es?"
Technically, Fred, you're correct: "you" is the complement rather than the object. But in English it sounds excessively formal and old-fashioned to say "It is I" -- we would normally say "It's me." And in French you never say"C'est je" or "C'est tu" but "C'est moi/toi", even though "toi" in other contexts is the oblique case of the pronoun. So I guess it's probably the same in Danish. I see that Indra927477 made exactly this point 4 years ago on this discussion page.
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Okay.
Though in French you have to distinguish accentuated and non-accentuated forms of the personal pronouns; you can never use "je" as an accentuated form, which is a little different from English "I", perhaps?
But I get your point.
It's like: "Is it you?-Yes, it's me". You also say "me" and not "I". I hope, this helps!
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True, although 'It's me' has come into such common use in modern times that the other has started to sound formal and almost archaic. I guess it's an example of language slowly changing over time.
Unless I slow it down, it sounds like "Æ di la" or Something like that. I understand verbal truncation, but this is too much lol.
You should go over the words one by one because as a full sentence it's pronounced incorrectly
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I'm Italian and these sentences are clashing with my idea of an object pronoun because in Latin (romance) languages the verb to be doesn't allow any object like some other verbs. probably in Danish it is so, like in spoken English. so it's ok. but when we speak of grammar "you" is not an object in this question.
I don't think I agree with you Fabian -- I don't know Italian, but in French you would always say "C'est moi" (it's me) and never "c'est je". Similarly, this example in French would be "C'est toi?" and not "C'est tu?"
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But "moi" is not an object, think of "moi, je vais venir". "Moi" is just the stressed form of "je". you don't say "c'est les", but "c'est elles (or: eux)", right?
It still sounds like "Er det hva'" in normal speed :-( Can somebody please fix this?
Does Danish not have predicate nominatives, like English and German?
What I heard here was " A D Da.?"....... The phonatics are so so difficult to get a grip on for a non european...... Its borderline miserable
