Breakdown of Taxaen kører fra lufthavnen til byen.
køre
to drive / to ride (a bike) / to run (of a train or bus service)
byen
the city
fra
from
til
to (preposition) / for (purpose) / at (an event or occasion) / at (good at something)
Questions & Answers about Taxaen kører fra lufthavnen til byen.
How do fra and til work in this sentence?
fra means "from" and til means "to". When talking about moving from one place to another, Danish uses them exactly like English does: fra lufthavnen til byen means "from the airport to the city".
Why is "the city" translated as byen instead of using a separate word for "the"?
Danish puts "the" at the end of the word as a suffix. The word for city is by, and because it is a common-gender noun, we add -en to the end to make it byen (the city). You can see this same rule happening with taxaen (the taxi) and lufthavnen (the airport) in this sentence.
Why does the English translation say "is driving" when the Danish verb is just kører?
Danish does not have a separate continuous "-ing" tense like English does. The present tense verb kører translates to both "drives" and "is driving". You simply use the context of the sentence to choose the most natural English translation.
What is the breakdown of the word lufthavnen?
It literally translates to "the air port". It is a compound word made up of luft (air) and havn (port or harbor), plus the -en ending for "the".