"På hörnet"

Translation: On the corner

[DogePamyuPamyu]

Would this be like on the corner of a street or something?

[Hashmush]

Exactly!

[NevilleJam]

So this is for something on top of a table or shelf, for instance? And 'i hornet' for the corner of the room, etc?

[Hashmush]

"I hörnet" is indeed used for the corner of a room, while "på hörnet" is usually said to mean at/on the corner of a street.

[person222222]

Sounds very similar to English ^.^

[exqeriment]

Yup ^!^

[susanna233364]

English Nursery Rhyme

Little Jack Horner
sat in the corner
eating his Christmas pie.
He put in his thumb
and pulled out a plum
and said 'What a good boy am I.'

[s_h_a_u_n_a_]

This is exactly what helped me remember horn = corner

[ErixTheRed]

The audio is definitely pronouncing the "h" as a "k". That's not how the Swedes do it, right?

[Arnauti]

I hear it as a h sound.

[person222222]

I definitely see what he's saying that makes it sound like a "k" sound (the voice software trying to parse the two words together into a seamless sentence where an artifical space makes the next sound sound like a different one) but there's not much that can probably be done about that. Plus, it still sounds like mostly and h to me (and the others here) :p

[ErixTheRed]

Thank you. I also constantly hear "b" as "d"

[Hashmush]

I agree with @Arnauti, it's definitely a h.

[MarkBorkBorkBork]

It's certainly an H to my ears.

[kyle450849]

Glad it's not just me hearing the k

[MarksAaron]

I'm hearing it as an initial g-, but as was said below, it's an unfortunate artifact of the TTS process.

[OnsenMushr]

I heard a 'k' and indeed typed a 'k', and was marked as correct with no mention of the typo.

[Xo_oY]

How about "by the corner"?

[exqeriment]

Vid hornet.

[fraumueller]

Here it sounds like a"p"

[Britta555933]

I thought the same thing.

[Britta555933]

After doing the activity for the second time, I think the regular paced exercise sounds fine, but the slow version sounds like a 'p' and not an 'h'.

[jinguist]

I wrote "på harnet", because that's what I heard, and was marked correct. PLEASE can Duo start giving typo warnings on listening exercises?! Thanks

[JYH6UtXB]

Yah, jinguist, I usually keep google translate open on my desktop so that I can check spelling if I have any doubt. That said, our Tireless Moderators are not the ones who have any power over this. It is Duolingo admins, I believe, who may respond to trouble calls/bug identification/new ideas.

[ElenaUrsu8]

I have a bug here. When I write "at the corner", it says correct answer is "in the corner". When I write "in the corner", it says correct answer is "at the corner". Please fix.

[Lynn461787]

sounds exactly like a 'v' to me

[RichardB_Lebanon]

In the corner is wrong?

[MarkBorkBorkBork]

"In the corner" is i hörnet.

[alexbfree]

Surely this could also be "in the corner" .. as in the REM song.. "that's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight, losing my religion". People rarely say on the corner, usually in or at.

[Britta555933]

In the corner is "i hörnet". On the corner could refer to a street corner, such as "I'll wait for you on the corner."