"Ænderne svømmer ikke når svømmebassinet intet vand har."
Translation:The ducks do not swim when the pool has no water.
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Does the Danish sentence have correct word order? "svømmebassinet intet vand har" looks very strange, shouldn't it be: "svømmebassinet har intet vand"
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I think it has something to do with the subordinate clause - here it starts with 'når'. In these clauses the word order changes significantly, but I'm not 100 % sure.
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No, in subordinate clause word order changes from (subject verb adverb) to (subject adverb verb). But here it goes like: (subject object verb) - doesn't make any sense, must be a mistake!
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So I looked it up in the text book and it says that in the subordinate clause the word order is: - subject - 'ikke' / adverb like 'altid' and also noun with 'ingen' - verb - object. So I guess that 'intet vand' is counted as similar to 'ingen'
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I just started reading some books in anish, and every once in a while they invert the order of the words, away from all inversion rules.
Thus, my understanding is that your suggestion is correct, and it would be the simple way of writing. However this rearrangement is also fine.
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I think "har ikke vand" negates the verb ("does not have water") whereas "har intet vand" negates the subject ("has no water")
