"The girl and the boy are reading a newspaper."

Translation: Pigen og drengen læser en avis.

[dorienmast]

Still hard to remember the different spellings of boy, the boy, boys, etc. Gets confusing

[ph.rtSaBw]

I am writing the same answer but it is showing wrong.....Can you explain why is that so.

[eboyle19]

What is the difference between "en" and "et?" Why are there two words for "a?" Does it indicate whether a word is masculine or feminine?

[SatyaBhat]

Hi there 'en' and 'et' both are for 'a' unfortunately there are no rules for 'en' and 'et' words. Just about 75% of words fall in the 'en' category and the rest 25% in the 'et'. The way to know is to look in the dictionary if the word is an 'et' or an 'en' word. I hope this helps.

[KateBoyles]

I'm sorry you said 75% is en and 25% is en, so which is the typo?

[SatyaBhat]

Apologies I have corrected this now. 75% 'en', 25% 'et'

[tinbob]

Yes. (Although technically speaking, it's not 'masculine' or 'feminine' genders in Danish, but it's the same idea; the nouns belong to one or the other 'class' of nouns and that affects the way they behave grammatically, for example, which article they take. So some nouns take the 'en' article and others take 'et'.)

[VicenteOlm7]

'En avis' and 'avisen' means exactly the same?

[mad1974]

No, "en avis" means "a newspaper". "Avisen" means "the newspaper". Avisen is definite.

[DeoIgnoto]

Why i can say pigen og drengen læser avisen

[Xneb]

That means "The girl and the boy read the (specific) newspaper"

[DeoIgnoto]

Thanks for the explanation Xneb.