Fruit, vegetables and eggs (agurken, guleroden, citronen)

At the greengrocer's

DanishEnglishplural
agurkenthe cucumberagurker
gulerodenthe carrotgulerødder
citronenthe lemoncitroner
pærenthe pearpærer
jordbærretthe strawberryjordbær
æggetthe eggæg
I am buying a cucumber and three tomatoes.
Jeg køber en agurk og tre tomater.

Two of them are irregular: gulerod changes its vowel (gulerødder), and jordbær and æg stay the same in the plural, like år.

Carrots are cheap in July.
Gulerødder er billige i juli.
We eat eggs for breakfast.
Vi spiser æg til morgenmad.

With and without

Med is with; its opposite is uden. Food after them is usually bare: med citron, uden mælk.

She drinks tea with lemon.
Hun drikker te med citron.
I drink coffee without milk.
Jeg drikker kaffe uden mælk.

yoghurten works the same way: Jeg spiser yoghurt med frugt til morgenmad.

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