"Du drikker min katts melk."

Translation: You are drinking my cat's milk.

[AdriaaNL]

Poor cat :)

[Bergvik]

Poor person

[Daugawpils]

poor milk

[Bishoop47]

Poor owner

[cool_dude420]

I'm poor.

[Quentin643619]

Then sell your computer

[theSheepster]

Poor poor people

[MarcelloS10]

Poor world

[General5409]

poor cow

[Riley_DM02]

Poor grass

[Nikautob]

Pour me some of the cats milk

[karthik122990]

Poor Duo!

[KristianFa17]

Pour milk

[Marilburr]

Got milk?

[Pe_achy]

Who shot Alexander Hamilton

[xxlisaaa_]

He needs some MILK

[RabidCadaver]

First, the dog's food. Now this.

[SagaJi]

Yep, that's getting totally out of hand.

[Ungewitig_Wiht]

Scandinavia practically speaks one language -

Du dricker min katts mjölk - Swedish (last word sounds like "myulk"

Du drikker min katts melk - Norwegian

Du drikker min kats mælk - Danish (but it's pronounced "doo drayga min ketts melk"

[tahscenery]

At least you can tell someone that they're drinking your cat's milk to a Swedish, Norwegian or Danish person xD

[Ungewitig_Wiht]

Hey, du vet aldrig, hvornår du må sige, at en person drikker en katts mælk :)

[Riley_DM02]

You come home, and a Swede, a Norwegian, and a Dane are drinking your cat's milk. Wyd?

[Mr._Fahrenheit]

Say, "What is this, a joke?"

[Mark318377]

And the Norwegian says, "Ikke verst, men jeg foretrekker kumelk."

[DhanuRadha5]

Yeah, but i find norwegian easier to learn.

[Creator13]

And pronounce... Where does that Danish even come from??

[DhanuRadha5]

Yeah, also, Danish doesn't sound a bit like what it seems.......

[SanctMinimalicen]

They are on what is called a dialect continuum. When you include dialects and smaller languages, they all gradually blend into each other.

[tamaraaazzz]

you should see how we at Balkans would say it. these are in Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian.

Ti piješ mleko moje mačke (ти пијеш млеко моје мачке)

Ti piješ mlijeko moje mačke.

Ti piješ mlijeko moje mačke.

lol

[Peggy223]

also in Czech and Slovak:

Ty piješ mléko mojí kočce.

Ty piješ mlieko mojej mačke.

[Capybara6]

Drikker in Danish doesn't sound like drayga, it's more dreeka

[Aquarius680401]

But Finnish is another language altogether

[Adlertok]

I mean, try Finnish. Entirely different language.

[Panthera4]

Most cats are lactose intolerant, so it wouldn't mind.

[JeffFolster]

Could still be a young kitten for all we know.

[Bambusbaer789]

Young kittens are also lactose intolerant. Lactose is only found in cows' milk however.

[Billywm]

So you're saying we should start milking cats....

[Evan.S47]

xD

[Weretoad]

I've got nipples Greg, can you milk me?

[Greenee4]

Oh my god, that was the first movie I went to on my own. Meaning just with a friend, but no adults. Sooo long ago.

[Crondogz]

It's also found in human milk and that of most other mammals.

[GrandmaDoll]

Human milk is almost unbearably sweet. Next time your kid asks for candy, please understand it is pre-programmed into our brains! Lol Ripe fruit works just as well, but makes fewer cavities. Trick those kids into good health! Now, how do you say that in Norwegian?

[Candidandelion]

I think ripe fruit is just as bad as sweets in terms of sugar but has more tooth-damaging acid.

[Rebster5]

Depends on whether the human drank milk I believe

[deactivated user]

Eating the dog's food, drinking the cat's milk, what a rude house guest

[Zack778459]

This is funnier if you momentarily forget that cats are occasionally left milk to drink.

[jts6987]

Yea I was thinking that someone milked the cat and drank it...

[SpiralStat]

That reminds me of an episode of 1000 Ways To Die where a lady got a disease from drinking her cat's milk...

[ravihlb]

Well, this is most unusual

[SusannaG1]

This is hilarious! Is this normal for cats in Norway? ^^

[Sma_Viking]

Yes, yes it is.

[AliceBeres1]

Ew! Are they drinking milk that has been reserved for the cat or milk that the cat has produced?

[Deliciae]

Could be either, but without context I'd go with the former.

[Bruce-CallMeSoda]

Yeah, it's hard enough to milk a cat. After all that trouble, I'm sure not going to let someone else drink it!

[AuthenticAlien]

First the dog ate their food, now someone's drinking their milk. Poor cat

[olivia.leggio]

Could you also say du drikker katten mins melk or du drikker kattens min melk?

[Deliciae]

We don't add a genetive-s to possessives, so that rules out "mins".
What you can say is "Du drikker katten min sin melk".

"Du drikker kattens min melk" does not work either, because "min" no longer points to the cat with that placement, but rather to the milk. The direct translation would be "You drink the cat's my milk", and it sounds equally silly in Norwegian.

[vonSpee]

So with genetives do we always use the more formal structure? Min katt rather than katten min?

[Kas334864]

I'd like to know too. When a possessive takes a genitive is it the usual way: min katts?

[Nikautob]

Kan du si 'Du drikker melk til katten min?'

[BadgerBodgkin]

What better to wash down your dog's food?

[EmmaJane_1]

The sentences on this thing crack me up! Well done Duolingo

[deactivated user]

This should be on a t-shirt with a suitable image. :)

[Ethan__Cox]

So...did they milk a cat?

[Rikisha91]

I think they meant the milk belongs to the cat, not feom the cat :p

[c9564]

So when is min used before the subject instead of after
Ex. det er katten min

[mark1316]

Melk er ikke godt for katter.

[Joris203989]

Which is most common? "Du drikker katten min sin melk" or "Du drikker min katts melk"

[Omalley956903]

Be cat's milk, my friend.

[markuspeloquin]

I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?

[Candidandelion]

It's unusual but, in theory, possible.

[markuspeloquin]

Oh yeah you can milk anything with nipples.

[Candidandelion]

But as with everything in life, just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

[markuspeloquin]

... Meet the Parents? https://youtu.be/bXNwzKo5Yps

[Janneke944510]

This was the translation I gave, what is wrong?

[Mike905066]

I really hope that is milk FOR the cat, not milk FROM the cat - otherwise questions will have to be asked about what on Earth is going on in Norway.

[Jamie103792]

When you use this form, is the emphasis on ownership still relevant i.e. "you are drinking MY cat's milk" as in the difference between min katt and katten min? Or is it overlooked here for the genitive?

[Arian890372]

in persian:
تو داری شیرِ گربه ی مرا می خوری ;)

[ChuckGray3]

Ok. After reading the preceding explanations to this lesson, I'm worried that it's not the milk that belongs to the cat and that it's the milk that is produced by her. lol

[AnnaE007]

I don't think you are supposed to give cats milk anyway, so it's probably for the best