"I am eating the meal and she is drinking the tea."

Translation: Jeg spiser måltidet og hun drikker teen.

[thejcdrummer]

I'm very glad you explained this, I took a bit of a break and I'm practicing everything again so I forgot some stuff, so I completely forgot the word for meal. I love the literal translations of Danish like "evening food" and "eating time."

[EwaNachos1]

Been doing Norwegian and almost got this by using it completely

[tjb1982]

Interesting that måltidet isn't måltiden, since tid uses tiden. Are they from different cognates?

[DieLegende2]

I'm reasonably sure that they're not from different cognates, since the German word 'Mahlzeit', obviously a cognate of 'måltid', is feminine, just like 'Zeit'.

I guess, words just sometimes behave weirdly in compounds. Just how the plural of 'tøj' is 'tøj', but the plural of 'køretøj' is 'køretøjer'

[mijichu]

Oops, i wrote the food instead!

[artemis000pl]

It should be "jeg spiser MADEN". "maltidet" is a meal time. You can't eat time.

[deactivated user]

Not quite.

• måltid(et) = (the) meal

• mad(en) = (the) food

For "meal time", I would say "spisetid" (literally "eating time")

Good luck with learning Danish!