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Nowhere. But the English sentence needs it in the way the English translation is constructed. If you instead said "I'm writing the century's book" it'd be a grammatically correct sentence, and "book" not being definite for the same reason.
I was confused at first by this too but then I realized it is like "Jag tycker om flickans bok." which would be translated as "I like the girl's book.", or "the book of the girl", yes?
The slow version is very misleading imho. Usually the slow version makes it very clear where one word ends and another begins, but in this case it sounds just like: Jag skriver århundrade (t)sbok. There's a clear pause between århundrade and tsbok.
No-one's fault of course, but very confusing if you rely on the slow version.
Sounded fine to me, but maybe it's because I know the word 'århundradets' so I didn't attach it to 'bok'. I encountered 'århundrade' several questions before this one, so I easily distinguished it, I guess.
Possessives are inherently definite, so århundradets boken read like "the century's the book" in English.
The article isn't used since århundradet is a noun.
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How would one write, "I am writing a book on the century" (referring to a century already mentioned)? How would one write "I am writing a book on this century"?
oh gosh, your saying this was a gift. I see the word now! lol sigh
I'm studying Chochenyo with my tribe (California) and the way they count multiplies by ten! So one hundred, or a century would be ten tens!
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Because it's the definite form. ett århundrade, århundradet, and it's 'the book of the century'.
Is this supposed to be the best book of the century or am I just writing a book about a certain century?
Definitely the former. The latter would probably be using om ("about") somehow.
English can use either "the y of x" or "the x's y". Swedish can use only the latter. But boken århundradets would use "the y the x's" which doesn't work in either language.
No, that makes just as little sense as if you used the same word order in English.
Would it be incorrect to translate this as "I write a book of the century"? If so, why?
Possessives are inherently definite, so since it's århundradets bok it has to be a definite one rather than just "a book".
Jag skriver den århundradets bok - is it correct? I'm just trying to compare with "I år är det hundens år"?
No, possessives don't take the article - just like how you wouldn't say "the century's the book" in English.
In the construction i år är det hundens år, the det isn't actually a definite article, but the word "it" - as in "this year, it is the year of the dog".
