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- "Pojken älskar älgar."
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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
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.
(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. :)
Could it be "the moose" or does this necessarily imply a substance such as moose meat?
For one moose:
- älg = moose
- älgen = the moose
For more than one moose:
- älgar = moose
- älgarna = the moose
I struggle to see this being an organic sentence... Missing either "a moose" or "the moose"
älgar is the plural form, so it's "moose" in the plural here. Hence no article.
Why isn't it at least "the boy loves a moose" but instead the boy loves moose? Is it plural?
