What does the original title "Forbydelsen" mean? Is it the danish word for "crime"? This is how it's translated in my country.
And, what are they chewing all the time? It looks as if they were taking some medicaments, but I'm sure they aren`t, maybe they are chewing soft bonbons? They do it so self-understood, it looks as if it was familiar to any danish people.
English is not my first language. Any corrections are welcome.
I'm not Danish either but Sarah Lund appears to be trying to stop smoking and is using nicotine gum as a healthier alternative. She chews whilst her colleagues smoke!
shareThat's fantastic, mike-h-williams! It makes absolutely sense. If I remember well, in a later episode, Sarah Lund is indeed smoking a cigarette, and it made me wonder. I thought she borrowed one from Meyer.
If you quit smoking and it works by the help of nicotine gums, how are you able to quit chewing nicotine gums later on? Just curious.
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In the first episode, they do show a pack of nicotine gum while she's packing up.
It all makes that scene where she finally does join Meyer in a smoke more significant.
"Forbrydelsen" translates to "The crime"
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Does it translate to "The crime" or to "crime"? Aren't there articles in danish language?
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the crime
So articles do not exist in danish???
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Hehe...
Forbrydelsen = the crime (as mentioned above)
Forbrydelse = crime (in general)
En forbrydelse = a crime
So the -n (last letter) is/corrresponds to the article (engl. "the", French "le/la", german "der/die/das/")? Lol, that's funny, I always thought Danish is a German language (in the widest sense).
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More or less, yes. In Danish, you only use a seperate article (en or et) before the noun in indefinite form or if the noun has a connected adjective or adverbium (before the noun). We have two genders in Danish, common gender and neuter gender. The first one ends in an n when in definite form, second ends in a t when in definit form. Like this:
A house: Et hus
The house: Huset
The big house: Det store hus
You see how the article in indefinite form is in front of the noun, is incorporated in the noun when in 'clean' definite form (without adjective)
And in this case:
A crime: En forbrydelse
The crime: Forbrydelsen
The big crime: Den store forbrydelse
As you can see, the noun hus (house) is common gender and ends in a t when used in definite form, and forbrydelse (crime) is neuter gender and ends in an n when used in definite form.
Read more here: http://www.statsci.org/dansk/index.html
The same goes for all the Scandinavian languages, at least the indo-european ones.
shareThat's correct. Danish, Swedish and Norwegian (among others) are included in the term "germanic languages", not the German language. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages
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oh no *beep* germanic isn't the same as german?
shareSorry for my late reply. That's correct. Germanic is a term used for several languages with the same origin, why German is the language spoken in Germany. :)
More on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix
Danish is a germanic language, but it also differs quite a bit from German, seeing that it's also heavily influenced by Old Norse, and more recently, French and English.
"Forbrydelsen" refers to the act of having committed crime, not crime as a general concept. Seeing that the inflection of the noun is 'definite', it seems to refer to a specific act or an event, yet, "forbrydelse", has an entirely different ring to it. "Forbrydelse" can more or less be translated with "crime" in English, but "forbrydelsen" cannot be directly translated into "the crime". "The crime" sounds sort of odd, and refers to a general sense of what pertains to criminal acts, while what is meant by the title, could rather be translated with "The criminal act". However, that would also fail to capture part of the sense of the word, because what is often meant by "forbrydelse" is "wrongdoing" in a social or societal sense, rather than in a judicial sense. However, it is all contextual.
It means "the crime"
But a tad more specific. Like saying "the offense" or "the violation".
o the -n (last letter) is/corrresponds to the article (engl. "the", French "le/la", german "der/die/das/")? Lol, that's funny, I always thought Danish is a German language (in the widest sense).
oh no *beep* germanic isn't the same as german?
Flere mord would translate as several murders not more murders
shareI know I am a few years late answering this question but what you see chewing is actually snus... it is very popular in Scandinavia and it is little sacks of powder Tabacco. They are placed in the upper gum and they release the nicotine slowly into the blood system. You can clearly see Lund putting one up her gum in one of the episodes.
shareLate, but not too late. Thanks for the information! I've never heard "snus".
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Sarah is not chewing "snus", she is chewing nicotine gum.
You do not chew snus, it's not like chewing tobacco at all. You keep it under your upper lip, and the tobacco goes into your blood-stream from there. Snus is either in little pouches like miniature tea-bags, ready to use, or you "pack it" before placing it under your lip.
It's extremely common in Scandinavia, lot of people use it as a tool to give up smoking, however it's just as hard to quit as smoking....
In "Broen" the protagonist use snus.