"I am eating your pink strawberry."
Translation:Jeg spiser dit lyserøde jordbær.
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Struggling with the endings!! I wish my fluent in Danish parents would have just raised me to be bilingual in the first place!
I'm confused; I thought the -e ending went with plurals. The strawberry seems to be singular. What am I missing?
The e-ending does go with indefinite plurals ("lyserøde jordbær er store" = pink strawberries are big) but it is also used when describing a definite noun in the form of "the [adjective] [noun]" in both singular and plural (det lyserøde jordbær er stort = the pink strawberry is big; de lyserøde jordbær er store = the pink strawberries are big), the possessive pronouns make the noun definite (it is "your" strawberry and not another one), so the same idea applies. (dit/mit/deres/Esthers/Holgers lyserøde jordbær er stort = your (singular)/my/your (plural)/Esther's/Holger's pink strawberry is big)
So the only time you can use lyserødt is when it is indefinite like "Et lyserødt jordbær", correct?
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The indefinite form is also used when the adjective is being applied predicatively (on the other side of the verb), even if to something definite. For example, “Dit jordbær er lyserødt.”
Thank you! I was missing the piece about possessive pronouns making it definite!
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I am lost!
pink; lyserød/lyserødt/lyserøde The first form - en words, The second form - et words, The third form - plural indefinite words (the article is a/some
Perhaps the above information was incorrect but I learned it from the website. I am lost!
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I got this off the website. Now, I am lost!
pink; lyserød/lyserødt/lyserøde The first form - en words, The second form - et words, The third form - plural indefinite words (the article is a/some
