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"Do the cats drink water?"
Translation:Drikker kattene vand?
December 4, 2014
11 Comments
It is gender, but the assignment of gender seems very arbitrary in modern Danish. This discussion post here explains the rules that do exist well, but a lot of words just have to have the gender remembered with the word
ra.mrn
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You need to remember the structure they've been applying when translating to English: Do/does [someome] do [something]? It's mean to teach how in Danish the verb comes first (the inversion), not a literal translation.
ra.mrn
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Because it's askeing a question: Do the cats drink/are drinking water? Your answer is an affirmation: The cats drink/are drinking water.