«Lillesøsteren min mistet fyrstikkene i søla» Topic is solved

[weerwater]

DL: My little sister dropped the matches in the mud.

Compare this to:
«Roboten mister bevisstheten.»
«Han mister aldri knivene sine.»
«Hva skjer når en sjøstjerne mister en arm.»

Á miste seems to imply: losing something (and missing it).

Could / would 'miste' indeed be applied by Norwegians also when talking of just dropping (and picking it up)?

[spencer1411]

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.

[anamorphism]

doing exact match searches for common situations is usually a quick and easy way to see if things are used by natives.

for example, the phrase that popped into my head was "dropped my phone in the toilet."

• "mistet mobilen i do"
• "mista mobilen i do"

and you can immediately find instances of the verb being used for that meaning, such as this tv2 article: https://www.tv2.no/underholdning/tv-2-h ... /13110639/

[Olav]

https://naob.no/ordbok/miste

[weerwater]

doing exact match searches for common situations is usually a quick and easy way to see if things are used by natives.

Indeed, good tip - when time.

I tried to find out more on the content of this sentence like that: What kind of 'søla' would be destructive for matches...
Visualising a family 'på tur' crossing the 'myr' ...
would that be a combination of words that brings up hits .... Yes! Søla can indeed be -wet- mud.