"Jeg har på meg lette klær."
Translation:I'm wearing light clothes.
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Glad to see so many people thought it was "my clothes" too. It's always helpful at the start of a lesson to be reminded that we should calm down the English speaker in our brains and remember that just because a word sounds like "my", this is a different language where "my" is "meg" and "meg" is "me"!
"Lette" is used for all plurals. It's also used for definite singulars of all genders when attributively placed, i.e. placed in front of the noun.
"Lett" is used for indefinite singulars of all genders, and when predicatively placed (after the noun) modifying definite singulars:
"En lett bil" (indefinite singular)
"Bilen er lett" (definite singular; predicative placement)
"Den lette bilen" (definite singular; attributive placement)
"Lette biler" (indefinite plural)
"Bilene er lette" (definite plural; predicative placement)
"De lette bilene" (definite plural; attributive placement)
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"Lett" can mean "easy", but "I am wearing easy clothes" does not make sense as a sentence in either language. If you wanted to say you were wearing simple clothes, I think that would be "Jeg har på meg enkle klær"
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Yes I figured this out because of the similarity to French and German. But they never told us, when they introduced har på seg that seg was a reflexive pronoun. As far as we knew it was just a word that was used in this phrasal verb.
Other comments indicate that the purpose of "meg" in this sentence is to make the verb reflect that it is first person singular. But I have not seen that practice with any other verbs. My aim with this comment is to understand why this sentence needs "meg" to perform this function, whether other verbs exhibit similar behaviors, and how to know which (if any) do and how to use them properly. A thousand thanks in advance!
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It is good English, but it does not mean the same, so it is not a valid answer.
I have light clothes on
means
I am wearing light clothes
In some languages (such as Norwegian) you cannot say on with nothing after so you say on me
I have light clothes on me
I have on me light clothes
These are not good English but they do mean the same thing.
But
I have on my light clothes
is different. You are saying whose clothes they are. In languages that need the me you would actually have a me and a my here
Jeg har på meg de lette klærne mine
I have on me my light clothes
I am wearing my light clothes