"Hun taler flydende spansk."

Translation: She speaks fluent Spanish.

[FyodorPavlovich]

How can we tell whether it's 'flydende' is an adjective (and so 'fluent Spanish') or whether it is an adverb (as in 'speaks fluently')?

[Jnwulff]

That is a realy good question.

Normaly danish verbs made into adverbs end in -t and english adverbs end in -ly

But flydende does not have a -t form so no help there

[Jnwulff]

And both she speaks spanish fluently and she speaks fluent spanish translates to hun taler flydende dansk

[Mia831143]

Adverb, you can also say 'hun taler spansk flydende', which would translate to 'she speaks spanish fluently

[oppikoppi]

It's an adjective.

[FyodorPavlovich]

Can you explain how this is determined?

[oppikoppi]

I can't. I just looked it up. http://ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?query=flydende&search=S%C3%B8g

[friswing]

It is created from the verb: flyde (float), the 'Spanish' language is floating (on her tongue). .

[KasperFeld]

Or that the Spanish flows freely from her.

That is how I always understood it. Flyde also means flow.

[FyodorPavlovich]

Bra, tack!

[ChristineBH]

It appears like I can't say "She talks fluent Spanish"

[friswing]

I think DL English 'always' uses 'speak' together with a certain language, 'speak English' etc.

[paraspeura]

dit billede, elsker jeg det

[ChristineBH]

Takker makker

[ChristineBH]

(Altså hvis det var ment til mig)

[John41317]

I'm English and in my dialect we say "talks" English or "talks" Spanish. I guess it's not classed as proper English.

[DrAbiri1]

Negative points to this post remembers me the real story of Charlie Chaplin that couldn't gain the first place of a contest that the participants must mimic him.
Dear negative pointer! He says i'm an english person and we say "talk" to a language!!