"Uddannelserne i Amerika er dyre."
Translation:Education in America is expensive.
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Quite right. And if your parents can't afford your education, you should have chosen better parents!
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No, 'The educations in America are expensive,' is NOT correct. 'Education' is a non-count noun and has no plural form.
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I agree with the aforementioned about the English translation. The Danish sentence is wright? Is "uddannelse" a countable or non countable noun?
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It is countable in Danish.
While this sentence is a bit dubious and I will correct the English translation, "education" is definitely a countable noun. Consider:
- "The applicants had comparable educations."
- "Their educations differed greatly because of how much money their parents could afford"
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My natural manner of speech would leave education in both of those sentences singular. While it may not be wrong to pluralize education, in most cases, especially the problem statement we are discussing, it comes off as something a non-native speaker would say.
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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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A bad sentence, which we have been complaining about for three years. Do Duolingo listen when we squawk? No Native speaker is going to say educations.
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Is the pronunciation of "uddannelserne" in this sentence correct? Sounds weird to me.
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Why is uddannelserne plural? What can be the logic behind the sentence? In what context would this be used like this? Thanks in advance. :)
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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.
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And to make matters worse, it is still expensive for us to study in Europe since we are not EU citizens.... :(
