"Jorden er blå og det er ingenting jeg kan gjøre."
Translation:The earth is blue and there's nothing I can do.
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And here's the original, older video (from 1969). It's not the same version (of the video or the song) that everyone is used to, but I love it nevertheless; it has a playfulness that the 'official' 1972 video (posted above) doesn't:
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Every other time in this lesson, 'jorda' has been in use, and not a single sentence used 'jorden', except for this one.
I remember the dual usage of feminine words as masculine ones, but i'm curious about this particular one.
BTW, I failed the answer when i wrote "jorda"
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So to actually answer your question: no, it would not work. There are two separate words for separate contexts.
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For me '... ingenting jeg kan gjøre OM' sounds more like "nothing I can do ABOUT", and that's not exactly what the english sentence says... I'm not really sure about that though. And it sounds kinda weird in english too. "...nothing I can do about IT" would sound better to me. I guess that would be "... ingenting jeg kan gjøre om DET"
is it an audio exercise? if it's a "write what you hear" exercise, what you write has to match what the Duo Bot says.
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Is there a specific reason that jorden is used here instead of jorda? All other translations have used jorda.
i was wondering, too, but i have seen them change it up for ei nouns i suppose to reenforce for us that it's an ei noun and we can use either. they use klokka [number]" all the time, too, but ocassionally they throw in klokken [number].
