galaxyrocker wrote:
So, I'd like to bring this back up for people who speak a different dialect of me. Does "The school library" = "the library of the school" for y'all? For me, it can't reflect a particular school, but instead a particular library (that of a school) (i.e. "The library of a school"), with "the library of the school" being "The school's library". But there was someone, from Dublin (just so y'all know roughly what dialect), on Duolingo arguing that "the school library" is for a specific school, thus should be the translated as "leabharlann na scoile" rather than "an leabharlann scoile", as my dialect would suggest.
Well to me:
The school's library = Leabharlann na scoile
The school library = An leabharlann scoile (i.e. a library of the school type)
In English, I'd only ever say "The school library" when contrasting with another library, i.e. "Oh we can't have the play in the Canal library, the school library would be better."