"The man's book"

Translation: Boken til mannen

[LizDuv]

What is the difference between boken til mannen and mannens bok? Are they both acceptable?

[amyhasnolife]

They mean the same thing. So yes, they're both allowed.

[Alex_Af_Nordheim]

It's like the book of the man and the man's book

[Lucy.Sou]

what is "til"???

[fveldig]

In this case: 's, it's denoting the ownership of the book.

til = to, for, of, until

[atcsandra]

Is there a preference between boken til mannen and mannens bok? Both are accepted as correct in Duolingo

[sakerrison]

I don't have any numbers to back it up, but i feel we see more phrases structured like mannens bok in Duolingo than boken til mannen. So my guess is that would be the more common in practice (i'm not a native Norwegian speaker, so just my educated guess).

[LilyCollin15]

This could be a silly question, but why is it not 'Mannens boken' ?

[sakerrison]

It can be dangerous to translate word-for-word, but 'mannens boken' would basically mean 'the man's the book'.

The stated answer of 'boken til mannen', could be translated to 'the book of the man', or 'the book belonging to the man'.

[jimis00]

Why not mannens boka?

[morgainelafee]

Why is 'bok til mannen' wrong?

[odi_et_amo]

The definite form of the noun has to be used with this way of showing possession.

[chloe1395]

Does "Mannen sin bok" translate literally to "The man his book"?
What's most common, if any: "Boken til mannen" or "Mannen sin bok"?

[Gary_Kotka]

'Mannen sin bok' is, to my understanding, ungrammatical. 'Mannens bok' is accepted, however.

[Tyler0182]

"Mannen (VERB) bok sin." Could be accepted I presume.

[sakerrison]

Mannen (VERB) boken sin or mannen (VERB) sin bok.

[iulia622918]

Mannens boken

[Marja-Leen90234]

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