Re: Sibling (was: Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin)
| From: | Rune Haugseng <haugrune@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 13, 2001, 13:26 |
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On Wednesday 12 December 2001 21:02, Rune Haugseng wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 December 2001 10:09, James Campbell wrote:
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> > This has interested me for ages. _Syskon_ and Norwegian _søsken_ are
> > commonly-used words, if I understand correctly. (Although _søsken_ is
> > plural: "brothers and sisters".)
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> I'd say you could use it as singular (e.g. "Jeg har ett søsken", I
> have one sibling), though it's much more commonly used as a plural.
Seems my intuition was wrong on this one - I checked a checked a
dictionary, and it was listed as plural. I still think I might use the
sentence quoted above, though.
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Rune Haugseng