Household jobs and mishaps (komme, lade op, dække)

Komme: to come, or to put in

You know komme as "to come". With an object and a place word like i, it means to put something in, or to add it:

The forms are the same as for "to come" (kommer, kom). The object tells you which verb you have: you come to a place, but you put something in. Because this komme takes an object, the perfect uses have: Jeg har kommet salt i suppen.

Lade op

Lade op is "to charge" a phone or a battery. When it has an object, the object goes between lade and op:

This is not the lade that means "to let". The charging verb is regular in the past tense: Jeg ladede telefonen op. It also works without an object, for the phone itself:

Spilde: spill, or waste

With time, money or food as the object, spilde usually means "to waste":

Dække, rive, løs

dække is "to cover": snow, water or an insurance policy can cover something. You will also meet dække bord, "to set the table".

rive is "to tear"; rive i stykker is "to tear to pieces". Its past forms are irregular: rev, har revet.

løs is "loose": a screw, a tooth, or a dog off its lead.