Word
I dag kører jeg bilen.
Meaning
Today I am driving the car.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
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Breakdown of I dag kører jeg bilen.
jeg
I
bilen
the car
køre
to drive / to ride (a bike) / to run (of a train or bus service)
i dag
today
Questions & Answers about I dag kører jeg bilen.
Why does the verb come before the subject (kører jeg) instead of saying jeg kører?
This is the V2 (verb-second) rule in action! Because the sentence starts with the time phrase I dag (Today), the verb kører must take the second position in the sentence. To make that happen, the subject jeg has to swap places with the verb.
The translation says 'am driving', but isn't kører just 'drive'?
Danish doesn't have an '-ing' form (a continuous tense) like English does. The present tense kører covers both 'drive' and 'am driving' depending on the context. Here, 'am driving' just makes the most sense in English.
Is I dag always written as two separate words?
Yes, it is! Even though it translates to the single English word 'today', in Danish it is always written as two separate words: I dag (literally 'in day').
Why is the word for car bilen and not just bil?
In Danish, the word for 'the' is usually added directly to the end of the noun. En bil means 'a car', and adding -en to the end gives you bilen, which means 'the car'.