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This will definitely come up in conversation. What boy doesnt love a moose?!
Strangly, älg and elk are the same word. (along with älgen, älgar, älgarna). European English speakers look at an älg and call it an elk, but American English speakers instead look at certain types of American deer, calling them elk. Here (U.S.), the Native American word is used for älg, which is "moose", but Brits call moose elk and they call elk deer!
The alternatives didn't include mooses but "moose" And the phrase the boy loves moose seems really unnatural to me
It's definitely less bizarre in German. We even bottle moose poop to sell to German tourists. :D
Then maybe you got "moose"? That's actually the default, since it's the more common plural form.
I see here in the comments section the answer displayed is "The boy loves mooses." in the actual exercise, though, it says the correct anser is "The boy loves moose."
We accept both, since the word has different plural forms in different regions. Duolingo decides which to show you when you get things wrong by some algorithm for which we do not know the details.
Isn't it a little weird to say "the boy loves moose"? Does it sound OK in Swedish?
Well, it's hardly a common phrase but there's nothing inherently odd with it.
Yes, whenever g follows l (L) in a syllable, it uses the soft pronunciation. So even though it's succeeded by an a here, it's really älg-ar, so the soft/hard rule of the following vowel does not apply.
Why does it show 26 comments yet it says no comments yet when I click to view?
It's a very annoying bug, I know it occurs across a wide range of Android devices and possibly other places as well.
We accept both, since the word has different plural forms in different regions. Duolingo decides which to show you when you get things wrong by some algorithm for which we do not know the details.
"Älg" is moose in English but "Älgar" is also moose at the same time. Why are they the same? In Swedish, does moose have a singular and plural from unlike in English?
English can actually use either "mooses" or "moose" as the plural form - the latter is actually more common. So we accept both. :)
(I am french) i do not understand why moose and not mooses? Isn't it plural?
"moose" is actually both the singular and the plural in English. Some people do use "mooses" for the plural as well, though - so we accept both. :)
