"Kvinnen får en hest av mannen sin."
Translation:The woman gets a horse from her husband.
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Confusingly, if you're from the North of England, you're likely (as I did) to answer "The woman receives a horse OFF her husband", which is closer to the Norwegian but not technically wonderful English...
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Despite coming from the North of England I would never use "off" in this context as it is incorrect.
I'd say (as a Yorkshire woman) that the main issue here would be the dissonance between the fairly formal "receives" (as opposed to "got") and the dialectal "off", which I might well use in another context. The meaning is also slightly different: to get something off someone implies a certain degree of (maybe friendly) coercion or even amicable trickery!
Thats an interesting confidence. Youd think youd consider that youre not the only person in Northern England
It isn't incorrect. I'm from the midlands and if someone is given something they ALWAYS say "off" instead of "from" - whether it's borrowed, taken, or a Christmas gift. It's a dialect thing, and with how subjective languages are nowadays - both "off" and "from" should be accepted.
It doesn't mean exactly the same. Kvinnen får en bok i posten FRA mannen sin. In this sentence you would use FRA because it comes from somewhere. AV is more like he is giving her something. Kvinnen får en bok av mannen sin til jul. Here it is like a gift is given to her, then you use AV.
I thought 'av' means 'of': 'en av dem synger'. I entered 'The woman gets a horse of her man' and the answer was wrong. How one can distinguish when 'av' is used meaning 'of' and when it should be translated as 'from'?
av means both 'of' and 'off' e.g. å bite av - to bite off
In fact, 'of' and 'off' came from the same OE preposition 'æf' and were later reanalysed as two separate words. This change didn't occur in the North Germanic languages.
Therfore, 'kvinnen får en hest av mannen sin' is word of word 'the woman gets a horse OFF her man'.
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Context is also helpful - it can't be 'of' in this sentence because that makes no sense in English.
Får av =recieve from In addition to this, Does (får av) have any other meaning?
The isolated pronunciation of kvinnen sounds fine, but at regular speed I hear something like dschinnen (sorry, using German "spelling"). Can this be confirmed?
