"The manager pretends to be an artist."

Translation: Direktøren leger kunstner.

[Guimacrlh]

so, "leger" is the same as "playing" as it is for "pretending"?

[miacomet]

Yep. Sort of like the English expressions "to play dead" or "play family".

[PatPetersen127]

Why no article on kunstner?

[gradydobetter]

9 months late but i assume it works like the english phrasing "play doctor" or "play house/family/dead/whatever"

[scarlett_7]

confused too :s found a lot that no article and not-plural

[Monsieur-Xavier]

Hvorfor ikke "en kunstner"?

[jennPPP]

Its an indirectly translated expression.

[Monsieur-Xavier]

Måske ligesom på tysk: "Der Direktor spielt Künstler"...

[Tabyshabz]

"En kunstner" should be used here i guess

[mdn73]

I wrote that and it was marked wrong.

[Katiesuperstrong]

It says that 'chefen' can also be used for 'the manager' (when you hover over the word 'manager', yet when I use it, it tells me that it's wrong and need to use 'Direktøren'...!!!

[AineDel]

I had the same problem...?

[kbkristensen]

Last time i chose both and now it is marked wrong...daaaa

[kajax2]

det er ikke god

[Gliderguld]

Pretend = foregive

[AnneBerg9]

If the first two sentences would beginn with "direktøren" which one would be right? "Direktøren lader som om han er kunstner/ en kunstner" - "at lade som om" would be the correct expression, I guess...

[nfsmit]

Reported: "bestyreren foregiver at være en kunstner" should be accepted.

[weirdact]

Can we also say "Direktøren spiller kunstner" ?