"Alderen hennes er over et århundre."
Translation:Her age is over a century.
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May sound weird in English but still makes sense, generally speaking.
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So, is this the way a Norwegian would say, "She is over a hundred years old?"
"Hun er over hundre år gammel" would be a closer translation for that.
So, what does the first sentence mean then ("Alderen hennes er over et århundre.")?
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Not with Link from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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There is no difference in pronounciation between et and ett, right? In which case this should also accept alderen hennes er over ett århundre
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Not in pronunciation, but you would stress "ett" more than "et". There is a subtle difference in meaning as well: if you use "ett" then the fact that it's one (and not two) is the important part of the sentence. "Alderen hennes er over ett århundre, ikke to".
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So to get this clear, when you hear this sentence, you definitely don't hear ett?
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I don't. Technically, they're pronounced the same, but "ett" would've been stressed - and would've stood out from the rest of the sentence. "Et" melts into the sentence, if that makes sense.
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The way "alderen" is pronounced doesn't sound right to me. Is the 'r' supposed to be silent?
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It's from Old Norse aldr, from Proto-Germanic *aldrą, which also became Old High German altar → German Alter. So Norwegian "alder" doesn't quite come from German, but they're sibling-words, ultimately from the same source.
