"Garderoben har inga dörrar."
Translation:The closet has no doors.
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Indeed, here in the US the more common use of ‘wardrobe’ is as a collective noun referring to either the set of clothing an individual is wearing or the sum total of all the clothing an individual owns. I suspect this usage may have, in fact, evolved due to people still saying things like ‘My wardrobe could use a new pair of shoes.’ even though standalone wardrobes are, as mentioned, not very common here in the US.
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Does anyone know how to say "out of the closet", would garderoben also be used in this phrase?
It accepts that in several versions. A common answer we don't accept though is The wardrobe has no door since singular/plural works pretty much the same in English & Swedish here so there's no good reason for switching. Other than that I don't know what could have happened, it should accept wardrobe.
Actually, a pantry does not need to be small, they just usually are in most houses in the US because it’s atypical to store very large amounts of things (or very large things) in them. Historically though, a pantry may even be bigger than the kitchen it’s attached to if it’s part of a particularly large dwelling or the owners often entertain very large numbers of guests.
Garderobe was the term for what passed for indoor toilets in castles. They were a tiny room that bumped out from the outer wall above the moat or just the ground with a seat with a hole open to the outside. I have to always remind myself that a Swedish garderobe serves a very different function. :-)
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In Britain we do not use the term closet. We say cupboard. If it is for clothes we say wardrobe. So it is very annoying when either of these is marked wrong, because Americans use the closet word!
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OK I will do, as it didn't accept it on my computer. Sometimes it objects to cupboard instead of closet and then seems to remember I got it wrong and won't accept any other alternative to closet, so wardrobe gets knocked back as well.
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The wardrobe hasn't any doors - not accepted, although when I typed this into Google translate, it gave the exact Swedish. Reported!