Breakdown of Jeg kører til lufthavnen nu.
jeg
I
køre
to drive / to ride (a bike) / to run (of a train or bus service)
nu
now
til
to (preposition) / for (purpose) / at (an event or occasion) / at (good at something)
lufthavnen
the airport
Questions & Answers about Jeg kører til lufthavnen nu.
Why do we use til for "to" in this sentence?
The preposition til indicates direction or movement towards a destination. Whenever you are going, driving, or traveling towards a specific place—like lufthavnen (the airport)—you use til.
The English translation says "am driving", so why does the Danish sentence just use kører?
Danish doesn't have a special "-ing" form (present continuous tense) to show that an action is happening right now. The normal present tense verb kører covers both "drive" and "am driving". The word nu (now) at the end of the sentence makes it perfectly clear that the driving is happening at this very moment.
How does lufthavnen mean "the airport"? Where is the word for "the"?
In Danish, "the" usually isn't a separate word before the noun. Instead, it is attached to the end of the noun as a suffix. The base word is en lufthavn (an airport). By moving the -en to the end, it becomes lufthavnen ("the airport").
I see havn inside lufthavnen. Is this literally "air-port"?
Exactly! Lufthavn is a compound word made of luft (air) and havn (port or harbor). When you add the definite article ending, you get lufthavnen.
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