"Et eple og en appelsin."

Translation: An apple and an orange.

[PierreCZ]

"An apple and orange" should be correct as well, since there is no need to repeat the article.

[alek_d]

It is accepted.

[datenreisender]

For me as a German it is slightly confusing, that it is “appelsin” and not “eplesin”.

Obviously the word “appelsin” has the same heritage as in German meaning „apple from china“.

[CHorseCHell]

Appelsin is orange not apple

[__ratsah__]

Et eple is acceptable. So why not et applesin?

[talideon]

Because they have different genders. 'Eple' is neuter, thus takes 'et', whereas 'appelsin' is common and so takes 'en'.

[Brillo_]

Fruits have genders?

[talideon]

Grammatical genders.

[Brillo_]

When a boy orange loves a girl orange blah blah blah...hehe ok but I know what you mean. I was bored so I made up a sort of dumb joke

[talideon]

An unfortunate number of people here don't know the difference, so it's hard to be sure. :-(

[Mantas24]

So why it is et barn and en gutt? Why can't it be en barn?

[Lionsie]

I wrote "the apple and the orange" but it was wrong. Can you also put "the" or does it have to be "an"?

[cosmic_bats]

If it was eplet, then you would put the. But since it's et/en, you have to put an.