"Han gik og svømmede i havet hele sidste år."
Translation:He was swimming in the sea all of last year.
March 11, 2015
6 Comments
Native speaker.
You would never say this, it is weird and slightly illogical.
March 11, 2015
hoeyer95
71
The sentence would translate to 'he walked and swam in the sea (ocean) all of last year'. A better version would be 'Han svømmede i havet hele sidste år' In general, many of the sentences in this lesson contains 'stod' (stood) or 'sad' (sat), which are often plain wrong or unnecessary, and would be omitted.
July 24, 2019
LelandSun
- 258
At least the English sentence doesn’t suggest that the swimmer didn’t get out of the water for the whole year, just that it was a regular activity for the whole year. Likewise for the Danish sentence?
June 3, 2019
LelandSun
- 258
We must be talking about someone doing this somewhere warmer than Denmark, like Indonesia.
June 3, 2019
