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- "Ens bil er ens egen."
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Egen is not pronounced correctly. Google Translate does it as it should. https://translate.google.dk/?hl=datab=wT#da/en/egen
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It is pronounced correctly in a different activity, so it's strange that it isn't for this one. Thanks for clearing up my confusion!
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For me the female voice or pronounces it wrong on the fast speed, but on the slow speed the pronunciation was correct
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Some people would consider "their" to be grammatically wrong because it is technically a plural pronoun, but many people (especially younger people) would not have a problem with "their" and would likely even prefer it to "one's". Personally, as a native English speaker, I would never use this sentence the way it is phrased and I would use "their" instead.
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Thank you for asking. I have no idea what "One's car is one's own" is supposed to mean. Maybe someone can tell us?
I am not a language person by trade, but I am a dane. I would say that it definitely is not an idiom, but rather inappropriate sentence for learning a language I think. That sentence is quite quirky, even in both languages in question, and might only lead to unnecessary confusion.
I guess the author thinks that a sentence with the danish word "ens" should be used in a context where it does not mean equal.