"Jeg vil reise med motorsykkel til butikken."
Translation:I want to travel by motorcycle to the store.
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It´s not a nonsense sentence. It means exactly the same thing as just ¨going to the store¨. While it may not be the most common way of stating it, the meaning is essentially the same. Plenty of people say they travel to work or other everyday places. A creative sentence will help you remember words and usages you might otherwise forget.
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I put "I want to motorcycle to the store" which was marked wrong. Then I put "I want to travel with a motorcycle to the store" and it was marked correct. I would think a motorcycle would make a lousy travel companion.
I think if you want to say 'I will travel', you can also just use 'skal'. 'Jeg skal reise.'
'Jeg ønsker å reise' is indeed more like 'I wish to travel'.
But I'm also still learning. Google Translate ironically uses both options depending on what sentence you put in the English section:
I'll travel - Jeg skal reise
I will travel - Jeg vil reise
And even more fun is swapping the languages a few times [in Google Translate], where every single option listed above ultimately gets turned into;
I want to travel - Jeg vil reise
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If you said this, we would understand your meaning, but we would know you were not a native English speaker.
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You will get used to get it right, just because of the meaning of the sentences. When I started, I made a lot of mistakes, and I would continue making them if I had to rely on what I hear. The context lets you guess what is right.
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It wasn't accepted because that's not proper English. You could say "go ON a motorcycle" (with the article "a") or "go BY motorcycle" (no article).
I don't know whether you are or not an English native speaker, but if you are you would be particularly able to pick the differences between long and short vowel. 'Ja', in Norwegian is super short, almost sharp. My mother, (she is Norwegian) keeps mocking me , telling me that I sound like German on some words when I do not emphasise the long vowels
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I used to have trouble spelling butikken. But now I remember I am not buying a butt at the butikken. ;)
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Well I want to safari on foot to the mailbox to see if the mailman has delivered anything and then trek back to the house.