"Der fandtes kun en nøgle til værelset."

Translation: There existed only one key for the room.

[yorifik]

Awful english

[jdavidm]

There's a lot of this in the Danish lessons.

[niscate]

"was found" ist not correct?

[londoncallling]

I would also like to know this

[deactivated user]

The verb at findes (past tense fandtes) means "to exist".

In theory it could also be a passive of at finde (= to find), but I've never heard it used like that. The passive of at finde is always at blive fundet.

[niscate]

Thanks!

[PierrePoutine]

Wouldn't you say "kun én nøgle"?

[AshthulhuTTV]

This doesn't seem grammatically correct.

[Beth_Wallace]

I am wondering along with Pierre Poutine if there should not be a better pronunciation cue for "en" and some kind of accent mark over the e.

[Pat211087]

'There existed JUST one key for the room' is not accepted yet. Hopefully it will in the future as I consider it equally correct. ( Although a terrible English sentence)

[Mooninadewdrop]

'There was only one key to the room' is now accepted.