"The boy is eating sugar."

Translation: Drengen spiser sukker.

[philipjona]

And here I am picturing a healthy danish boy with a big spoon in front of a big pot of sugar, happily digging in.

[Etienne1405]

And here I am reminded of Johnny Johnny.

[SpiritedAw]

I'm too)

[little_wo]

Picturing or digging?:D

[Duos_2nd_Fav]

Thats a good one. You made my day. I appreciate the laughter cuz I have vomited 9 times today.

[FoghornJLeghorn]

Does the er at the end of spiser mean i do not need to put er in the sentence.

[mads-elh]

The -(e)r at the end of "spiser" is the present tense suffix of the verb "at spise" - "to eat". It has nothing to do with the "is" in the English sentence. Danish does not use the -ing form of verbs, and so "Drengen spiser sukker" means both "The boy eats sugar" and "The boy is eating sugar".

[JaneilsonHD]

The boy's name is Johnny!

[Stylianius1]

But is he eating the sugar without anything else???

[.KonoDioDa.]

Why would the boy be eating sugar?