"Ondskaben er i os alle."
Translation:The malice is in all of us.
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Okay is it just me or does anyone else know what they are talking about the "The malice"???
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The sentence is meant to teach the word 'ondskab(en) = '(the) malice'. 'Evil' is also an accepted translation and would probably fit better.
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I'm guessing ondskaben, like malice, is more suitable for describing a mental state, while onde, like evil, is basically something supernatural, or almost supernatural. Is this right?
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Evil is definitely the right word. In general many of the excercises have some rather questionable English. The Danish is good though as far as I can tell.
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So what the meaning of "Malice" in english? (Sorry but im not native..and its bit hard to study language with your second language)
Hatefulness, meanness, cruelty; wanting bad things to happen to other people. "Malice" is a direct opposite of "benevolence", the virtue of wishing other people well.
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Should it just be 'evil'? Malice is such an unnatural choice in this context
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Actually it's not true. Almost all the people in the world are good. The psychopaths (people that lack empathy, and therefore are truly evil) are a minute minority, well below 1%.
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Funny. I was just listening to this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_F8h4oDI7I
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Great way of making friends - just drop that sentence every now and then. May the force be with you.
