"Vi har en påve."

Translation: We have a pope.

[Seraph259]

Well we have a Hulk.

[Iglotimus]

Habemus papam!

[torowan]

Röken var inte svart, utan vit.

[bearded-bod]

I totally agree. It should certainly accept this as an alternative.

[Baba7249]

tried and it still won't accept it :-(

[devalanteriel]

Well, it's not the English to Latin course. :p

[3CelticVikings]

For those who are not Catholic, this phrase is used when a new Pope is selected by the College of Cardinals

[SansEspoir83]

Is it just my norwegian ears being faulty, or is the pronounciation really weird here?

[devalanteriel]

No, you're right. Every single word is correctly pronounced except for pitch. So it sounds really off because the prosody gets weird when the pitch is wrong.

[SansEspoir83]

Are you sure it's just the pitch? Because "påve" kind of sounds like "poge" along with the strangeness of the pitch.

[devalanteriel]

I can see what you mean, but I think that's just the pitch messing up the sound of the word. Could be wrong, though. It's not entirely clear.

[kire1120]

Can påve refer to anyone other than the bishop of Rome? For example would you call the leader of a different church a påve as well?

[devalanteriel]

No, only the Bishop of Rome.

[TheSeez]

The head of the Coptic Church is also referred to as a Pope though, what would be the Swedish term for him?

[devalanteriel]

You're right! I didn't think of that. We say either den koptisk-ortodoxa påven or patriarken av Alexandria.

[TheSeez]

Tack så mycket!