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- "En jente er et barn."
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It depends on the gender of the word. Technically there are three genders: feminine, masculine, and neutral, although the feminine is rarely used in bookmål and can be replaced with the masculine form. Some places replace the "ei" with "en", but replace the "-a" ending, it just depends on the dialect.
Feminine: "ei" / "-a" Example: "Ei ku" / "kua" Masculine: "en" / "-en" Example:"En stol" / "stolen" Neutral: "et" / "-et" Example: "Et hus" / "huset"
Apparently, it is also related to Old High German which was also "barn", "bearn" was the Old English word which also gave rise to the verb "bear".
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bairn
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/bairn
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Biological gender and grammatical gender aren't one and the same.
Both nouns in this sentence have grammatical genders in Norwegian. Every noun is either masculine, feminine or neuter in Norwegian.
En jente is masculine (ei jente [feminine] is rarely used) and et barn is neuter.
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I'm doing a test from level 2 to level 3 and this audio isn't correct. I'm listening it many times and I clearly hear "en jenta er et barn".
No, because "the girl" (definite article) is jenta, but "a girl" (indefinite article) is en jente.