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- "Han skriver under papperet."
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We stress it differently because it's supposed to be a phrasal verb. It's like you're saying: "He writes the paper under", only now imagine you moved "under" before the verb "He writes under…the paper". Compare "up" in "he wakes up his dog" vs. "he walks up the stairs."
1285
I don't hear it in this sentence, i mean, it's like "under" is said as fast as possible, and not at all stressed :/
1453
Vi brukar använda det med mer abstrakta uttryck: Jag skriver inte under på den idén.
Men inte med t.ex. ett kontrakt – man brukar antingen skriva under ett kontrakt, eller skriva på ett kontrakt, men inte använda båda samtidigt i sådana fall.
[UK here] Open letters can start with 'we, the undersigned believe xyz...'. Also to underwrite is to give a financial guarantee, for example companies which underwrite insurance companies will make sure the insurance company doesn't go under if they have to make a big payout. Also 'subscribe' in Latin mean 'write underneath'
So in answer, no- but several modern words stem from the concept of 'writing under'.
1453
You can use på instead, as long as you don't use under too. Han skriver på papperet works just as well. :)
237
Is the “paper" here just the one as in "a piece of paper", or it can also mean the kind of paper like a journal article / thesis / dissertation? I look up the dictionary, the latter is "avhandling" or "artikel". Since I have read different explanations in the dictionary and that of explained here for other words, I would like to confirm. Tack! :)
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Tack devalanteriet. :) BTW, for a practice I made yesterday, you re-recorded a word, the original pronunciation of which in the courseware needs to be improved, you have an amazing voice. :)