Questions & Answers about Spiser de mange kager?
Why is the plural of cake kager and not kageer?
The singular word for a cake is en kage. When a Danish noun already ends in an 'e', you usually just add an -r to make it plural, giving us kager.
Where is the word for 'Do' in this question?
Danish doesn't use a helper verb like 'do' to ask questions. Instead, you just put the verb first. 'They eat' is de spiser, so to ask 'Do they eat?', you simply swap the words to make it Spiser de?.
I remember learning that de means 'the'. Why does it translate to 'they' here?
De does double duty in Danish! It can mean 'the' (when used with plural adjectives), but it is also the pronoun 'they'. You can tell it means 'they' here because it is the subject doing the eating right next to the verb.
Could I use meget instead of mange here?
No, because kager (cakes) are things you can count. Mange means 'many' and is used with countable plural nouns. Meget means 'much' or 'a lot of' and is used for uncountable things like water, coffee, or time.
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