"Ondskaben er i os alle."

Translation: The malice is in all of us.

[Trev34]

Okay is it just me or does anyone else know what they are talking about the "The malice"???

[mads-elh]

The sentence is meant to teach the word 'ondskab(en) = '(the) malice'. 'Evil' is also an accepted translation and would probably fit better.

[petrenko]

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?

[oldestguru]

"ondskab" means "evil"

[Mathewgk]

The origin of the word is from these two words. 1. ond =evil/(pain) and 2. skaber = to create.(make). Ondskab would loosely translate to the propensity to do evil or the capacity for evil. This word ranks close to 'angst' and 'torschlusspanik' for pure beauty.

[Tolah4]

ond means evil but only in its verb form, putting -skab at the end just turns it into a noun. It doesn't have anything to do with the word 'skabe=to create' even though they're similar

[HastaLaVista83]

Of course it has something to do with "at skabe = to create" (German "schaffen", Old English "scieppan"). Like all nouns ending in "-skab" (English "-ship" or "-scape", German "-schaft", Dutch "-schap"), the respective noun aims to express that this very word is created by the word before the "-skab" part (sorry if I did not express this well, I'm not an English native).

landscape (is created by land)

friendship (is created by friends)

German examples:

Mannschaft ("manship") is created by men (English "team")

Wissenschaft ("wisdomship") is created by wisdom (English "science")

[Octavius981152]

I like manship.

[FrankSauvage]

Why shouldn't they?

[Euhan1]

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.

[moriya88]

So what the meaning of "Malice" in english? (Sorry but im not native..and its bit hard to study language with your second language)

[the.akaneko]

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.

[bamsetopper]

Bad intentions.

[lauroflorin]

Godt og ondt eksisterer kun i øjnene af vagteren.

[mariannela695319]

there are a few options of translation here - if you ask me. The evil is in us all. The evil is in all of us. I wish Duolingo had a little more wiggle room

[paganboy]

Should it just be 'evil'? Malice is such an unnatural choice in this context

[jlinsitges]

agreed.

[karmis77]

Jeg er uenig med dig! Noget vrøvl

[ziah16]

Too true

[oldestguru]

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%.

[KrashCoyote]

I like the sudden shift in tone.

[NZydGiaV]

Having spoken English for 72 of my 75 years I would never say " the malice" in the above context.It would not even be an option.

[NZydGiaV]

In English you would never sat "the" malice in this context.

[oldestguru]

this is not gloomy at all

[Isaac_Luna_]

Funny. I was just listening to this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_F8h4oDI7I

[epomerantz]

Rigtig sensei

[FrankSauvage]

A helpful reminder. And especially it's in those who deny it.

[Helene666293]

why is ''everybody'' judged as wrong while that is a hint in the helper , while ''all of us'' is not mentioned at all

[NZydGiaV]

"the malice". NO!