"Det er en have helt uden blomster."
Translation:It is a garden entirely without flowers.
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This sentence feels unnatural to me. I would always say "It's a garden without any flowers". I've never heard anyone use "entirely" in this way, even though I get what this sentence means.
The suggested translation was "wholly without flowers", which sounds even stranger than "entirely without flowers". It should be "without any flowers".
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"have" has tree meanings in Danish.
It can be plural of "hav" so it means seas, not a sea
It can be garden.
It can be a verb spelled similarly to the English verb in Shakespeare's "to have or not to have"
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The sentence is read correctly but for one word. Garden is "have" and Danes say both syllables. But only "ha" is heard. This is because "have" is a noun here but can also a verb. And in the latter case we only say the first syllable. Probably because the verb is used a lot.
It is a garden with flowers. It is a garden without flowers. It is either with or without flowers.
