"Det är inte sant att en häxa måste vara gammal och ful."
Translation:It is not true that a witch must be old and ugly.
January 7, 2015
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P-Funkel
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I said "It is untrue that a witch must be old and ugly" but it marked it wrong and corrected me saying "It is not true that a witch must be old and ugly" is the correct way, are these not both the same?
"Hex" is a relatively new word in English, which comes from German verb hexen, to do witchcraft. The German word for witch, Hexen share etymological roots with English "hag" and Swedish hagga. Swedish häxa, like English "hex", is a recent borrowing from German Hexen (less than 400 years ago, from my brief etymological inquery).
InvertedGo
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The word "should" implies that there are exceptions to the rule. Whereas "must" implies no exceptions.