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“Koke bøker” means “to cook books”. The correct way is “kokebøker” and means “cookbooks”
Interesting idiom in English: To cook the books
This means to do dishonest accounting and make it look good for auditing. Might be two sets of books or similar fuckery.
I assume that "Koke boker" means to cook books physically on a stove or in an oven. But the way you stated it I might mis-interpret it to be dishonest accounting.
Yes, it means to cook books physically on a stove. I don't think we have the same expression for "cooking the books" here in Norway except for "accounting fraud"
English is not my native but I hate how they just assemble bunch of words together to make a single adjective out of it, and you can't know that until the very end. It gets obvious how stupid this is if I replace all whitespace with commas.
A desktop, computer, environment.
Air, missile.
Air, plane.
Pocket, record, player.
Water, beer, pong, table, thong. Okey I made this one up
The main problem I have with English is that spoken English and written English are two different languages. Inflection and emphasis and even volume aren't carried by the Latin alphabet. We can do things like this sometimes but even that is limited.
I mean, how many of us have had English teachers tell us we can't write essays the way we speak.
I love that English has a way of marking nouns/verbs in a sentence but I hate that when written it's completely erased (although sometimes a comma can help) "The old man the ship" threw me for like 5 minutes before I realised that man can be a verb.