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Original text - Noors - elsker deg fremmed

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elsker deg fremmed
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Submitted by cesar magno
Source language: Noors

elsker deg fremmed
Laaste geredigeer deur Francky5591 - 27 February 2009 18:02





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27 February 2009 18:01

Francky5591
Number of messages: 12396
This is Norwegian, not Danish (Danish is elsker dig)

27 February 2009 18:07

sagittarius
Number of messages: 118
I think this is a question, only the question mark is missing.

27 February 2009 18:20

lilian canale
Number of messages: 14972
I don't think so, what is missing is the subject (jeg), but I guess it's implicit.

CC: Francky5591 sagittarius

27 February 2009 18:24

Francky5591
Number of messages: 12396
My Norwegian is so poor I couldn't help on that one, but it seems to me that not mentioning the subject is pretty current in some languages, so maybe in Norwegian they use to do so...(I couldn't assume anything about Norwegian though...


27 February 2009 19:06

sagittarius
Number of messages: 118
Why I think this is a question? Because the verb is in the first place. It's characteristic of type of questions with verb inversion. So, it can be translated as "Does a foreign love you?"

27 February 2009 19:20

lilian canale
Number of messages: 14972
Could any of you help us with a bridge here?
does this mean:
1- (I) love you stranger.
or
2- Does a foreign love you?

CC: Hege mrnupsen

27 February 2009 21:04

iepurica
Number of messages: 2102
If I may, I would like to add something.

It is definitely not a question, the subject is missing indeed, but it can be used without it. It has the first meaning you said, lilian.



CC: lilian canale

27 February 2009 21:04

sagittarius
Number of messages: 118
Sorry! I've made a mistake: it should be not "foreign" but "foreigner" (or, perhaps, "stranger", i.e. my version of this translation is:
"Does a foreigner love you?"

27 February 2009 21:34

iepurica
Number of messages: 2102
sagitttarius, again, it is not a question. If it was a question, than "fremmed" would have been placed after "elsker". Actually the form would be something like "elsker en fremmed deg?".

CC: sagittarius

27 February 2009 22:04

sagittarius
Number of messages: 118
I don't agree with you. People who begin their sentence with a small letter, usually ignore punctuation marks as well, including question and exclamation marks (and articles). Actually, the stress should be not on "love" but on "foreigner"; therefore, the question should be like this: "Loves you a/the foreigner?" = "Elsker deg fremmed?" (An article, alas, is left out).

27 February 2009 22:41

iepurica
Number of messages: 2102
It is your choice to disagree. The Norwegian expert wil have the last word anyway. But I know some Danish and Norwegian is very alike and I'm pretty sure what I wrote is correct.

27 February 2009 22:41

sagittarius
Number of messages: 118
OK. The single point we agree.

28 February 2009 05:49

casper tavernello
Number of messages: 5057
As a rule, when people don't use the subject in phrases like that - elsker deg, savner deg, and so on-, it means that the subject is the 1st person.
And it's defenitely not a question.

28 February 2009 14:03

gamine
Number of messages: 4611
The translation is :"love you stranger". We could add

"Jeg"

at the beginning to have a complete sentense and I agree with ieouraca about the consstruction of the sentence.

CC: lilian canale sagittarius iepurica

28 February 2009 14:08

lilian canale
Number of messages: 14972
Well, seeing that my version seems to be correct, I'll take the opinions of you all as a kind of bridge. I'll do the translation required and set a poll.

28 February 2009 16:43

iepurica
Number of messages: 2102
Thank you very much.

28 February 2009 21:18

Hege
Number of messages: 158
Love you stranger

( it can be used both with or without the I in the front)