På en benk ved langveggen satt noen ungdommer småpassiarende med armene hvilende over sine knær og med overkroppen dukket ned mot armene.
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Some youngsters who were passing through sat on a bench by the long wall, slightly cross-legged, with their arms resting on their knees and their upper bodies bent down towards their arms.
Translated by
DavidKenstad • 742
4 months ago
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Some youngsters sat on a bench by the long wall chatting, slightly cross-legged, with their arms resting on their knees and their upper bodies bent down towards their arms.
Translated by
DavidKenstad • 742
2 months, 1 week ago
Discussion
This the first occurrence of the word "passiar" which here is contained in the word "passiarende". (By the way, the Norwegian text is missing the space in "små passiarende".) It was mistranslated. Quite honestly, I was unfamiliar with it and none of the online dictionaries contained it. Finally, I remembered I have an excellent hard bound McKay's Modern Norwegian and found it there. Passiar - (small) talk, gossip, chat. So the more accurate translation is "Some youngsters sat on a bench by the long wall chatting"...
by DavidKenstad 2 months, 1 week ago