"The boat is in the port of Gothenburg."
Translation:Båten ligger i Göteborgs hamn.
January 9, 2015
11 Comments
Does it HAVE to be "Göteborgs hamn"? Is there no room for variation? You really can´t say "hamnen av Götenborg" or something like that?
January 9, 2015
You can say "hamnen i Göteborg" but that is not really the same meaning ("the port in Gothenburg").
November 1, 2015
Arnauti
831
After a word in genitive, we can't have the determinate form. It's the same in English, really. You don't say 'the man's the book' either.
February 11, 2015
I put that as well because of the rule I thought I remembered right: that possessives become definite. Is this different because it is a genitive, or is it because it is the possession of a non-person?
December 15, 2017
The rule is the opposite - possessed things are inherently grammatically indefinite.
April 20, 2018
