"Jenta har et eple."
Translation:The girl has an apple.
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Is there any way to get DuoLingo to ask me more questions like this one? I get a much better challenge from being asked to translate a sentence in my own words than I do from assembling a sentence from a list of words.
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If you open Duo on a computer you can switch the 'list of words thing' to the other mode for all exercises.
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Well, since there are no breaks in spoken languages, to me, it sounds like 'jenttahaaretteple'. Intonate that correctly and you are golden. =)
You have to use "has" for the 3rd person singular (he/she/it). "Have" would be correct if we were talking about several girls:
"The girl has an apple."
"The girls have an apple."
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Are "jenta" and "jente" pronounced the same way?
PS: I'm not english fluent either so.. The correct form is "are" or "is"?
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Lucas: But you are both brave and adventurous in doing 2 languages. Good luck. 18May17
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Jenta and jente are not the same but are similar enough that some ears may not be able to differentiate at first. Also 'are' is the correct usage in this case
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The difference is really which syllable (jen-ta, jen-te) is stressed, right? Both have the same 'a'-like phoneme at the end.
And I think even if there is a small difference, in practice it doesn't matter... only if there was some other word close enough that it could be confused with.
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Bokmål - Jenta/Jenten har et eple.
Nynorsk - Jenta har eit eple.