"Mændene har skjorter på."
Translation:The men are wearing shirts.
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Would "Mændene har på sig skjorter" work, like in Norwegian?
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No. The only danish use of " har på sig" I can think of is in "det har noget på sig" which means something like "there is something right about it"
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I was about to ask the same question by referring to Swedish... Tack så mycket för frågat!
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Me too. I was just wondering whether or not one could use a certain syntax (or whatever it is). Good luck in studying by the way. ;)
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The question was very relevant, though, since danish, norwegian and swedish reminds a lot of one another, just like we understand each others languages.
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The question was very relevant though, since the three languages reminds a lot of each other, just like we scandinavians understand one anothers languages.
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A dane would be able to know what you mean if you said that, but it's not correct danish. But you could ex "mændene har noget skidt på sig" = "the men has some dirt on them".
Why is på at the end? We've been spiser and drikker in the "English" flow of a sentence until now.
The Danish is more like "to have on" in terms of its construction, which is synonymous with "to wear" in English: "The men have shirts on"
