Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Norwegian term or phrase:
Korleis er du laga?
English translation:
How are you made/created/structured?.
Added to glossary by
Terry Arness
Feb 4, 2003 03:25
21 yrs ago
Norwegian term
United States
Reliable quality, attention to detail
Native in: English
Works in: Swedish to English, Danish to English, Norwegian to English
Korleis er du laga?
Non-PRO
Norwegian to English
Art/Literary
Nynorsk
”Korleis er du laga?”, spør Klas seg: ”det var liksom ljoset ikkje samla seg på honom”; ”Det var som om han saug mørkret ut or krokane og la det rundt seg”
-Tarjei Vesaas
How should "Korleis er du laga?" best be translated? What are you destined for? What are you made out of? How were you made?
-Tarjei Vesaas
How should "Korleis er du laga?" best be translated? What are you destined for? What are you made out of? How were you made?
Proposed translations
(English)
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Terry Arness
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Proposed translations
25 mins
Terry Arness
Australia
Australia
Native in Norwegian
Australia
"Autodidact"
Native in: Norwegian 
Works in: Norwegian to English, Danish to English, Swedish to English
Related KudoZ points
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27
Selected
How are you made/created/structured?.
Good old Vesaas- poetic Nynorsk at its best
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Note added at 2003-02-04 03:54:16 (GMT)
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Lyric prose - ambiguous at the best of times- but he\'s definately doing some soulsearching here on the nature of his own psychological makeup.
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Note added at 2003-02-04 03:54:16 (GMT)
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Lyric prose - ambiguous at the best of times- but he\'s definately doing some soulsearching here on the nature of his own psychological makeup.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
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