"Manden spiser sit brød."
Translation:The man eats his bread.
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If you want to check the gender of a word, you can use Den Danske Ordbog and type the word into "Søgetekst" and then it will come up with the word. Next to "Bøjning" it has the singular definite suffix, plural and plural definite suffix.
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Choose one of the following: 'sine', 'sit' or 'sin'. Thing is, both 'sine' and 'sit' are correct, since 'brød' is irregular and is exactly the same in singular an plural. Still Duolingo accepts only 'sit', the singular...
If I've eaten more than one bread/piece of bread, I say that I ate "mine brød", whereas if I only ate one or an amount that can't be neatly quantified (like part of a loaf), I say that I ate "mit brød". Same holds true for everyone I know. The word "bread" itself may not have a plural, but sin/sine is still based on whether there is one or more of the item.
Same goes for sheep. Et får (one sheep), to får (two sheep). Manden bar sit får ("the man carried his (one) sheep"). Manden bar sine får ("the man carried his (multiple) sheep").
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It is et brød, hence sit brød, but in this case, the plural should also be accepted, I tried it for fun, but it is marked as wrong. Sine brød, his breads/loaves of breads is correct, too!!!
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Neuter, all ‘et’ nouns like et hus, a house
Common gender, all ‘en’ nouns. en skole
It is called common gender bevause it is masculin and feminine ‘together’ in one article. Old norse had three, as do Icelandic, German, and Nynorsk.
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„Some incorrectly say it like that themselves ...“ Yes, as in almost everyone in Jutland. Apparently they don’t need the distinction, because no one would ever eat another man‘s bread ;.-)
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Taken out of context, manden is most likely to mean ‘the man’, though it may equally well mean ‘the husband’. This Danish course is by no means perfect, and improvements are not fortcoming. Sometimes you just have to accept the answer the course contributors want you to use :-(