"Dit barn læser min bog."

Translation: Your child is reading my book.

[aischorr]

Why is it "dit" and not "din"? Is it because of the gender of the word "barn"?

[Xneb]

Yes
din for common (n-words) for example: Din bil (Your car)
dit for neuter (t-word) for example: Dit hus (Your house)
dine for plurals, for example: Dine penge (Your money)

[aischorr]

Thanks a lot!

[baggiemews]

Is there an easy way (or rather are there any clues to help you) to recognise whether a word is common or neuter or do you just have to learn the grammatic gender of each word ?

[katerinasiap]

I think you have to memorise its gender. :(

[A.M.F.]

Tak

[CScubing]

Thank it helped a lot

[GraydonVan]

Wait a minute... your child is reading my book... I might have Dark Tower... OH NO YOUR CHILD IS READING MY DARK TOWER BOOK

[lionpige]

SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO FIRST-LANGUAGE ENGLISH SPEAKERS WHAT CONSTITUTES A 'COMMON GENDER' WORD AND WHAT MAKES A 'NEUTER GENDER' WORD, PLEEEASE!!! WE HAVE NO CONCEPT OF WORDS HAVING DIFFERENT GENDERS!!! THEY ARE WORDS, NOT BIOLOGICAL THINGSSS!!!

[LinhCao11]

Why "your child is reading my book" is the correct one and "your child reads my book" is not the correct one??

[Ylias11]

smart kid

[Thatcommen]

I still do not get why present simple cannot be accepted and only present continuous. I have done exercises where they have accepted present simple. Mit barn læser avisen. Apparently it is an error if the "my child reads the newspaper"

[ClayRoze]

Why is barn a t-word? Aren't t-words said (generally) to be uncountable: like fire, water, etc? Kids are countable. Is this a word you just need to know? Same with apple.

[OsoGegenHest]

Gender (common versus neuter) is a separate distinction to countable-uncountable. I would go so far as to say it is entirely unrelated.

[MartinH91]

Kind of :)

[GraydonVan]

I did Din ;(

[TijuJohn]

Why not 'din barn' ?

[Kvinde8]

That 's what I wrote. Not a mistake!