[Course Forum] Norwegian 1-7 by Memrise

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There is a spelling mistake in Norwegian 5 - Exploration.
It is given as “et vandrehjem”. The correct spelling should be “et vandrerhjem” (the second “r” should be added)

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In Norwegian 3, section 12, the noun “ei klokke” is used, but the audio is “en klokke”. The earlier phrases for telling time consistently treated it as masc/common gender instead of feminine.

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Please explain the following:-

“hele livet har jeg ønsket å bli en berømt forfatter” meaning
“I wished to become a famous writer my whole life”

and:

“jeg drømte alltid om å bli profesjonell golfspiller” meaning
“I always dreamed of becoming a professional golf player”

Why does one sentence contain the indefinite article “en” and the other not, when they both describe careers?

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I don’t think there’s a rule about careers in particular. But the way I interpret the sentences, “berømt” describes what kind of “forfatter”, while “profesjonell golfspiller” is in itself is a work title (sort of).
But I wouldn’t bother too much about this.

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Thank you all so much for flagging these issues.

We’re very sorry we did not have the right resources to answer your questions in the past. We are changing this and we are now in the process of fixing these errors.

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To chip in this conversation, our Linguist has sent in the following comment.

The first one requires the indefinite article, the second one not. But the second can also be written with an indefinite article. The rule is that the article is used when it’s about ‘one case/sample’, the naked form is when it more general. So ‘en berømt forfatter’ is more specific than ‘fotballspiller’

On top on this, we have added “jeg drømte alltid om å bli en profesjonell golfspiller” as an alternative acceptable answer so that you won’t be marked wrong for this either.

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Hi All,

Thank you all for reporting the errors, and we’re very sorry that we could not be more responsive in the past. I have gone through your comments with our Norwegian Linguist and made the corrections in the course. The update should be live by end of today.

For the future, please use our new Reporting Form for course errors so that we don’t miss them. Thank you!

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