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- "Hun tager til lægen."
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889
Læge is the profession, doktor is the title. Calling a physician doktor is uncommon, mostly children's speech.
792
How do you know when to use tager, and when to use går, or would either one be acceptable?
889
"Tage til" is usually used if you have a certain goal you're going to. "Gå til" can also be used, but only if you can reasonably assume that there's walking involved. "Jeg går til lægen med bilen" sounds odd, you'd use køre here instead.
No, the Danish word "gå" is used both like the English "walk" and "go", and possibly a few other ones, depending on how you use it.
"Jeg går på vejen" means "I walk on the road", but "Jeg går i skole" means "I go to school" even if your parents drive you to school every day and you never actually walk. However, "Jeg går TIL skole (hver dag)" means "I walk to school (every day)," and yet "Jeg går til fodbold" means you play football in a club or something, not that you walk to see or play in a game.
So it's not as simple.