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It rhymes in English, but only in other forms. I believe it started as "the host with the most" and was used by the announcer when introducing a TV talk show host. It then became "the hostess with the mostess" (or mostest) to continue the rhyme with the feminine gendered noun. ht...

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I've seen the words påskekrim and krimserie used for tv shows, but not just krim like that. I don't read murder mysteries, so maybe I'm just not exposed to it. Not a native speaker though.

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I wonder what DL is trying to teach us in the section on symbols. The use of periods with parentheses seems pretty straight forward to me. It seemed like that section was more about vocabulary than usage. Thank you for the link to the Språkrådet article, though, as that was very interesting. I do s...

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It's not a direct answer to your question - I am not a native speaker - but you might want to look at https://megogmagen.no/tusen-takk-for-alle-gratulasjoner/ as there's a list of 25 example statements for this occasion with some variety. (You appear to be addressing multiple people, and there are s...

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You might be thinking of it as "Do you no longer pray for my soul?" but you can also translate it as "Do you not pray for my soul anymore?" which hopefully makes it more obvious that, as a time expression, it goes at the end. (As a mental exercise, consider replacing it with a di...

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å miste is as much "to misplace" as "to lose", and you can definitely use it for dropping something. I believe there are also other examples in the duo course such as «Han mistet hamburgeren sin i bakken» or similar.

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We'd likely say "No matter what happens," which doesn't include a word that fills the role of "som" because it's optional in English. But you might also want to consider alternate translations (which we would not use in this situation) such as "No matter what it is that happ...

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"Han het Dag" is just as likely to show up in a context where he hasn't died, left, nor changed his name, but the events being described are in the past so the surrounding text is written in that tense. For example, a story could start with "Det var en gang en mann som het Dag."

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