"Ulven tar en rein."
Translation:The wolf takes a reindeer.
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It is definitely an acceptable sentence in norwegian, but it really means kill when used like this . It might have something to do with the phrase "ta ... av dage" (take ... off days, kill), which is a bit weird sounding (I suspect it has somethingto do with those damn danes). It is actually used in more formal publications, but we don't really have a formal way to write norwegian though. http://www.nrk.no/ho/ulver-tok-hund-rett-ved-huset-1.12085803
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I was thinking The Farmer in the Dell,
"The farmer takes a wife,
The farmer takes a wife,
Hi-ho the merry-oh,
The farmer takes a wife"
Becomes:
"The wolf takes a deer,
The wolf takes a deer,
Hi-ho the merry-oh,
The wolf takes a deer."
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"Do you, Wolf, take this reindeer to be your lawfully-wedded wife? You may now eat the bride."
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Well thats what it means but they may not accept is because take is the verb not kill.
I put "The wolf is taking the reindeer" and it told me i was wrong because i used the definite "the" instead of the indefinite "one". So my "correct" translation is "The wolf is taking one reindeer."
I'm confused as to how I can differentiate the word "one" and "the", considering it's the same word. Was my answer technically correct?
As I can see that you speak Spanish as well you could translate the definite to 'el/la' and the indefinite 'en/et/ei' to 'un/una' or in English definite 'the' or indefinite 'a/an', one is just a Number, in other words there are two variations of un/una, one is an indefinite articel and one a number word.
So I guess 'The wolf is taking a reindeer' could be correct.