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"Det er få hus i bygda."
Translation:There are few houses in the village.
3 years ago
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hzwei
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Does "få" in the sentence also emphasize "the lack of something" as "few" in English? And how to say "a few"?
3 years ago
To express lack you'd add 'for', or make it into a negative statement:
Det er for få hus i bygda.
There are too few houses in the village.Det er ikke nok hus i bygda.
There aren't enough houses in the village.
To say 'a few', we use 'noen få':
Det er noen få hus i bygda.
There are a few houses in the village
3 years ago
I think that would depend on context, I'd just think of 'få' as there being a small number of them, not that there should be more.
'a few' could probably translate to 'et par' (a couple).
3 years ago