"Uddannelserne i Amerika er dyre."
Translation:Education in America is expensive.
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I disagree, it sounds natural to me. In this sentence though, I would use the singular "education."
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O.K so having read all the comments, I have to ask would it be correct in Danish to then use the singular form of this word, (Uddannelse i Amerika er dyr)?
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Lisa, I'd add an article here: "En uddannelse en Amerika er dyr", basically saying "(Doing) an educational course in America is expensive."
Since uddannelse is a countable noun, I think it's better to translate it as "course" in your head to get the grammar right.
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Mange tak! I truly appreciate your getting back to me so quickly. Yes it does help to think of it as course instead of education here.
What I do in situations like that is I go to forvo.com and search up the word there
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Uddannelse is plural here because you can go through many courses to get your educational fix. :)
"En uddannelse" refers to one full course of education and/or work training.
Kindergarten to high school tend to be fairly inexpensive unless you choose to go to a private school at which point you will be looking at tuition fees. That is at the option of the parents. College is also an option as is a trade school for after high School. At this point yes there is going to be tuition and prices for books and activities etc. However you can receive free government grants for grants that are set up if you qualify to the particular program you asked for and there are government loans at inexpensive percentages as well as other loans and scholarships that are only paid back if you drop out of classes. There are ways to reach the expense that you need to get through college. I will see young mother a single parent and I got government assistance I even managed to get assistance paying my babysitter when my children were young so I could go. We also car pooled to make the ride cheaper.
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Det er rigtigt hvis du snakker dansk, men ikke på engelsk. :)
Det engelske ord "education" er sædvanligvis ikke tællelig, derfor sjælden kan findes flertalformen "educations".